10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOSQUITO BOAT»
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mosquito boat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mosquito boat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Haida Culture in Custody: The Masset Band
Many of the mosquito boat operators are older men who spent their most
productive years as skippers or crewmen of company fishing boats. Others are
former trollers who are semi-retired but who use their mosquitos to earn cash and
to fish ...
2
Speaking of Animals: A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors
A small patrol boat, called a PT ("patrol torpedo") boat in WWII. WNNCD: 1906.
Source: MOSQUITO. WNNCD: 1583. The mosquito boat was named after the
insect because of its small size and its ability to outmaneuver or outrun its
pursuers.
Robert Allen Palmatier, 1995
Above: Traveling at speeds of 50 to 70 knots, the mosquito boat can easily
outmaneuver any heavy gun fire from its prey. SCRAPING THE BOTTOM OF THE
BARREL Recent developments in CO. A miniature spotlight will help align parts
for ...
They can also be used to protect convoys. Like the motor car ashore, they can
serve a thousand useful purposes. What makes a “mosquito” boat sting? Each
boat carries two to four torpedoes for offensive purpurposes against surface
vessels.
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sharply., ening. For householders, "'vnOl 0/IU farmers, mechanics. 25C (•
Regularly 35c; NICHOLSON FILES FOR EVERY PURPOSE *UjS.A Mosquito-
Boat Model ...
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US Patrol Torpedo Boats: World War II
It is also a popular radio-control model. Model PT boats in a wide range of scales
are produced by: Fine Arts Models, Revell- Monogram, Tamiya, Italian, Renwal,
Testors EasyBuild, Mosquito Boat Hobbies, White Ensign, and ToyZone.
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Long Were the Nights: The Saga of PT Squadron "X" in the ...
The mosquito boat nosed inshore, warily feeling her way through treacherous
shoals until it was not safe to go closer; then she launched a rubber boat and two
men rowed to the beach. Back with them they brought Lieutenant (jg) Charlie ...
If the battleship blows the mosquito boats out of the water the battleship has
accomplished substantially nothing, while if the torpedo finds its mark there is
likely to be one less battleship and the mosquito boat has accomplished
substantially ...
These measures have resulted in approximately a ten per cent lighter boat than
the original models of the design competition. In preliminary tests the smaller
mosquito boat hit sixty-two knots, or seventy- two miles an hour. The eighty-one-
foot ...
Rig For Fishing All about gear for mosquito boat fishing By Bob Marston almost
anywhere the big sportfishermen can go, and a lot of places they can't. But to get
them to compete for big game fish, it helps if you'll borrow some ideas from the ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOSQUITO BOAT»
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mosquito boat is used in the context of the following news items.
SOME GAVE ALL: AREA WORLD WAR II DEATHS
He received a Silver Star for his part as one of the crewmen of a mosquito boat that took Gen. Douglas MacArthur from Corregidor to another ... «The Republic, May 15»
