President John F. Kennedy had numerous brushes with death before an assassin’s bullet ended his life 50 years ago today. Sickly throughout a childhood he wasn’t expected to survive, JFK had to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CORRECTS BOAT NUMBER TO 305, NOT 105 - Members of the media sit on a gun turret during a media ride Thursday, March 16, 2017, on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The PT 305, which was restored by the National WWII Museum, cruises with guests of the museum Thursday, March 16, 2017, on Lake ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National World War II Museum has nearly finished restoration of a patrol torpedo boat that sank two armored German supply barges and carried U.S. commandos to French shores.

Japanese destroyers, barges, and small craft tried to move troops, ammunition, and food down the Slot under cover of darkness. American PT boats patrolled those waters, but they faced a frustrating ...

The National World War II Museum has nearly finished restoration of a patrol torpedo boat that sank two armored German supply barges and carried U.S. commandos to French shores. Officials hope to have ...

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 ...

What could be the world's largest collection of World War II-era PT boats — made famous in the popular imagination by John F. Kennedy's exploits in PT-109 — rests ashore at a marina in Kingston, where ...

Battlefront.com, an independent internet-based publisher for superior war and strategy games and one of the internets largest wargaming communities, and Akella, one of Eastern Europe’s leading ...

In August 1942, during the American island-hopping campaign in the Pacific theater, 15 motor torpedo boats were sent to intercept a Japanese destroyer convoy generally referred to as the Tokyo Express ...

New Orleans graduate student Kali Martin never imagined that she would be driving rivets into the hull of a World War II patrol-torpedo boat, just as workers did at the city’s Higgins Industries ...