It was a run-in with the enemy that was too close for comfort, and more than 70 years later, the details remain vivid in the mind of a Navy veteran who served aboard a legendary ship. U.S. Navy ...

NEW ORLEANS — Two stories accompany the ongoing restoration of the PT-305 boat at the World War II Museum, project manager Bruce Harris said. First, there’s the patrol torpedo boat’s bold and daring ...

Architect J. Clifford Grout III has spent hundreds of hours volunteering with others on a project that’s dear to his heart: working on the restoration of a historic New Orleans-built wooden PT boat ...

Crew member Malcolm Hartman docks the boat after a media ride of the PT 305, which was restored by the National WWII Museum, on Lake Pontchartrain, where she was originally tested by Higgins ...

A World War II-era patrol torpedo boat that survived dozens of combat operations in Europe as returned home to New Orleans, the city where it was manufactured. The PT-305, a fast attack craft armed ...

A World War II torpedo boat that sank three enemy ships and took part in two invasions has returned to its home port. Volunteers at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans spent more than a decade ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Put into service in late 1943, PT-486 never saw service in World War II. Now it will be restored by an operation called Fleet Obsolete, which owns and is restoring torpedo boats on ...

NEW ORLEANS – After all these years, she still hasn’t lost a step. Senior Captain George Benedetto pushes the throttle forward, and PT-305 – the only combat-hardened World War II boat of its kind to ...

NEW ORLEANS -- For two years, PT 305 has been hidden in a warehouse as a team of volunteers worked to completely rebuild the boat. But when they rolled it out, everyone was shocked. It was huge, ...

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 ...