WWII PT Boat Tossed up From Ocean Floor [by earthquake/tsunami]

Military.com/AP ^ | 4-29-07

[NormsRevenge]

wow .. did nostradamus have anything on this?

[BenLurkin]

Is it the same one that the incompetent rich kid drove into the path of a Japanese destroyer?

[SJackson]

wow .. did nostradamus have anything on this?

No, GWB causs tsunamis.

[paul in cape]

They were on their way to leave on New Caledonia!

[SJackson]

I presume not, the article indicates it’s been found already.

[Enterprise]

In the year of dhimmi
shaken solomon awakens
up from the black depths
cargo, ship, boom boom

[sgtbono2002]

If the hull was thrown up I doubt it was a PT boat. They were built of Plywood, I believe. I doubt plywood would have stayed intact this long.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Once the reels of saltwater drag racing are out of the way (PT 109 wins the race, but smashes into the dock when Cowboy Kennedy slams the engines into reverse at high speed and conks them out), the film takes on a measure of verve and dash. Best scene is the nighttime patrol when, running without lights, Kennedy’s PT suddenly comes under the prow of a blacked-out Japanese destroyer and PT 109’s plywood hull is sliced through like an orange crate. There is a moment of silence, then a crackling as the sea becomes molten with flaming fuel, and in the night come the terrified cries of men calling out to their buddies.

Time Magazine, Friday, Jun. 28, 1963
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,874997,00.html

[trek]

I could just scream!

[Fido969]

Sounds like the beginning of Gillian’s Isle...

Was McHale a Lieutenant Commander? If so, was it normal for a Lt. Comm. to be in charge of a PT boat?

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I think youre right.The bottom of subic bay is littered with PT boats.After the war the navy tied most of the remaining boats together and set the match to them. A lowdown dirty damn shame.

[magellan]

Kennedy's PT boat has been tossed up out of the waters?

Oops, wrong Kennedy.

[BluH2o]

Kennedy was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy serving in the Pacific when his PT-109 was cut in two by the Japanese destroyer.

In order for a PT boat to be cut in two (rammed broadside) by a Japanese destroyer, you really had to FU as a PT boat commander. JFK, the PT boat commander, was decorated for his wartime exploits in this incident ... mostly at his father's insistence.

[johnny7]

Gee... JFK was pretty swarthy back then.

[PAR35]

I doubt plywood would have stayed intact this long.

Or rusted, for that matter.

[TaMoDee]

I believe the PT was died in the water. Waiting for some type of contact from an Aussie coast watcher or whatever.

[blam]

Iron Bottom Sound

[JennysCool]

Is it the same one that the incompetent rich kid drove into the path of a Japanese destroyer?

Wow! Kerry served in WWII as well?

[BluH2o]

I believe the PT was died in the water. Waiting for some type of contact from an Aussie coast watcher or whatever.

Not from what I've read and years ago I read the book PT-109. They were underway ... perhaps not at full speed, when the Japanese destroyer emerged from the darkness and murk of a moonless night and sliced the PT boat in two.