They were small fast wooden-hulled shallow-draft vessels that depended on surprise speed and maneuverability and thus did their best work in coastal waters.
Italian pt boats. Squadron 22 was operating with the British Coastal Forces and saw action along the northwest cost of Italy and southern coast of France. While not recognized by many Allied historians MAS boats were the elite of the Italian Navy. PT Boats is dedicated to a small group of little known but perhaps some of the most daring naval combatants of World War II.
Navy shipped a number of PT boats to Great Britain and the Soviet Union through the Lend-Lease program. Facing it will cost you death and only the 50 can stay alive after 10 sec of being hit. Seaplanes held excellent vantage points and could attack with precision utilizing depth charges and conventional drop bombs with the Higgins boat left to defend itself through its machine gun armament at dangerously close ranges.
The torpedo boat crews. Made famous by Kennedys PT109 service in WWII these boats were high powered 3 Packard V12s and attacked shipping and protected our ships during the war. Bringing PT boats within the home waters of Italy was a very challenging prospect.
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To keep away from Allied air and sea power small convoys of heavily- laden supply barges ran the coast lines at night. I checked few videos i suspected something. During World War I the Italian navy built and.
The summer brought the most OP ship of all time freccia. Ships of the US. The PT 265 Class was PT 265 313 and PT.