The yellow crane angled toward Newark Bay is perhaps not the typical structure placed in a park to commemorate a moment in history. But there is little need for statues and monuments when an artifact ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since ...

JFK’s heroic actions earned him the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, as well as a Purple Heart. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s newly-confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), ...

Though it was shot out from under him, John Clagett of Middlebury still has fond memories of the small boat on which he served in World War II. So fond, in fact, that as he looked over a large marble ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - She is 78 feet long, 40 tons, and could travel up to 40 knots, or 46 miles per hour, in her prime. “Usually, there were 13 or 14 U.S. Navy crewmen aboard a PT boat like this,” ...

A group of volunteers hope to restore a World War Two rescue boat that has been partly submerged for "close to 20 years". Whaleback S32s were used by the RAF to rescue thousands of servicemen who ...

The U.S.S. Sudden Jerk, a PT-305 WWII vessel, is removed from the National WWII Museum's John E. Kushner Restoration Pavilion in New Orleans, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. The National World War II Museum ...

American PT boats in the Pacific were failing against Japanese supply barges during the Guadalcanal campaign. This story follows Lieutenant Robert Lynch, his crew aboard PT-48, and the desperate ...

ATHENS — A restored vestige of WWII will paying a visit to Athens next weekend with the arrival of PT 728. This craft, while it never saw action, is one of the few remaining Patrol Torpedo, or PT, ...