PT Boats in the Pacific 1942-1945

Overview

Throughout the US fight back in the Pacific, from Guadalcanal to the coasts of the Japanese home islands, the Navy's motor torpedo boats landed raiding parties, attacked enemy shore installations and supply barges, and undertook reconnaissance missions. Their crews lived up to the motto of John Paul Jones, one of the fathers of the US Navy - "Give me a fast ship, for I intend to go in harm's way".