World War II veteran Ken Clarke, a native of Dubois, Pennsylvania, was drafted into the U.S. Navy right after high school graduation in 1944 and served 18 months as a forward gunner on a high-speed ...

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 ...

AGAWAM, Mass. — The old film clips spliced with the veterans’ narratives offer a glimpse of the downtime aboard the 80-foot-long patrol torpedo boats used during World War II. Bare-chested men are ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. Navy PT boat that sank three vessels and saw action in Europe in World War II is back in New Orleans where it was built, what historians describe as the nation’s only fully ...

The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21, 1944. (Navy ...