: a small fast patrol craft usually armed with torpedoes, machine guns, and depth charges
called also PT
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That helps account for the dutiful but often grim tone of the film, in which a pair of Navy men (Wayne, Robert Montgomery) try to convince the higher-ups that their small, maneuverable PT boats have a place in battles others believe will be dominated by larger vessels.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
Kennedy’s brother John led a PT boat in the South Pacific and his brother Joseph Jr. piloted a plane in Europe, where he was killed in action.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2023
His character, Seaman Joseph Haines, one of a crew of misfits aboard a World War II PT boat, was known as Happy.
—Mike Flaherty, New York Times, 29 May 2021
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
Kennedy’s brother John led a PT boat in the South Pacific and his brother Joseph Jr. piloted a plane in Europe, where he was killed in action.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2023
His character, Seaman Joseph Haines, one of a crew of misfits aboard a World War II PT boat, was known as Happy.
—Mike Flaherty, New York Times, 29 May 2021
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PT boat
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: a high-speed motorboat usually equipped with torpedoes, machine guns, and depth charges
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