10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT»
Discover the use of
motor torpedo boat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
motor torpedo boat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
British
Motor Torpedo Boat 1939-45
Beskrivelse af de motortorpedobåde som den britiske flåde anvendte under 2. Verdenskrig.
2
The Fairmile D
Motor Torpedo Boat
They fulfilled various roles, from the original MTB/MGB role to anti-submarine and mine operations. This book is the most comprehensive body of information available anywhere in a single volume on this important type.
3
US Patrol
Torpedo Boats: World War II
This book examines the design and development of these unique craft, very few of which survive today, and goes on to examine their role and combat deployment in World War II.
4
The German Fleet at War, 1939-1945
... escort corvette/sloop frigate gunboat river gunboat Hilfskreuzer (German
disguised raider) Italian motor-torpedo boat (motoscafi armati siluranti or
motoscafi anti sommergibili) Marinefährprahm (German armed barge or “F”
lighter) minelayer ...
5
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: ...
16 "Command History of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons, Seventh Fleet"; Robert
J. Bulkley ms. "PT — A History of Motor Torpedo Boats in the United States Navy";
War Diaries of PT squadrons and Action Reports of individual PT boats. 17 See ...
Samuel Eliot Morison, 2001
Typical Action Report Report of Action of PT 163 Night of 22-23 October 1944
MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT SQUADRON TEN C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L 23 October
1944. From: Commanding Officer PT 163. To: Commander-in-Chief, UNITED ...
The navy has invited private builders to submit designs for four types of motor
torpedo boats and submarine chasers, including a seventy-foot motor torpedo
boat of wood or metal, and a fifty-four-foot wood motor torpedo boat. The future of
the ...
8
Beachheads Secured Volume II
Motor Torpedo Boat Division 1 had 77' Elcos without heating equipment for the
boats. They braved the very cold Aleutians alone for nine months until four boats
from Squadron 13 reinforced them on April 1, 1943. FIFTY-FIRST PT
SQUADRON ...
9
Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet: Soviet Naval Strategy and ...
D3 motor torpedo boat, 159 F25 missile battlecruiser, 211 F25A missile
battlecruiser, 211, 212 F25B missile battle cruiser, 213 G5 motor torpedo boat, 52
, 101,156 Gibbs & Cox battleship 89, 95 KE big submarine, 158, 159,205 KU big
...
Mikhail Monakov, Jurgen Rohwer, 2012
10
Holding Juno: Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: ...
In early 1944, Law and Lieutenant J.R.H. Kirkpatrick were selected to head up
the two mtb flotillas Canada was forming to take part in the invasion— the 29th
and 65th Motor Torpedo Boat Flotillas. Law took command of the 29th. Each
flotilla ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
motor torpedo boat is used in the context of the following news items.
Top secret plans for D-Day landings are to be sold at Spinks auction …
'Being in command of a Motor Torpedo Boat he was very much in the thick of it. 'And the nature of those small craft meant there was a lot of ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
Sutton Harbour to host 28th annual Classic Boat Rally
... Channel pilot cutter, as well as the return of the remarkable World War One Motor Torpedo Boat (DCB 1), which visited during the 2014 rally. «Western Morning News, Jun 15»
D-Day veteran retires after raising over £60000 for Poppy Appeal
Eric served as an engineer on a motor torpedo boat during the Normandy invasion in 1945, where his role was to help landing craft. Two of his ... «Leicester Mercury, Jun 15»
Stillwater resident recalls time on P.T. boat during WWII
He said he was only in New Caledonia for about two weeks before he was assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 19 at Tulagi Island in the ... «Stillwater News Press, May 15»
Angela Carella: In WWII, Navy veteran shot movie action
... of the true story of the Navy's 3rd Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron, sent to the Philippines in 1941 to help defend against a Japanese invasion. «The Advocate, May 15»
Sunken shipwreck in Hong Kong harbour likely that of HMS Tamar
Lieutenant Laurence D Kilbee HKRNVR [Hong Kong Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve], commanding officer of Motor Torpedo Boat 08 (MTB 08). «South China Morning Post, May 15»
Post WW2 Americans took over Lichfield – and brought candy with …
In 1942 Lichfield and district launched its Royal Navy Week when a £70,000 target, needed to buy a motor torpedo boat, was reached in just ... «Lichfield Mercury, Mar 15»
Thank you, Grandpa
He's 91 now, but back on D-Day he was my age serving in the Pacific Theater aboard a Motor Torpedo boat (PT boat for short). After the war ... «Duke Chronicle, Mar 15»
From Ensign to Commander-in-Chief: A Look at the Presidents Who …
That December, he was named commanding officer of a motor torpedo boat, PT-101, which was set to deploy to Panama. Seeking a combat ... «USNI News, Mar 15»
WW2 Royal Navy torpedo boat restored to former glory from a …
The Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB) 219 was built in Portsmouth in 1941 to defend Britain from the threat of a German invasion. She has now been ... «Daily Mail, Feb 15»
