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Offline brady

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« on: June 14, 2003, 03:55:59 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2003, 04:37:57 PM »
PT-109? :)
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« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2003, 07:01:21 PM »
hmm... is it pt-1?
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« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2003, 07:51:11 PM »
An 80' Elco boat, PT131.

Photo can be found in "Allied Coastal Forces of WW2" Vol.2 pg228

ISBN 1-55750-035-5
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« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2003, 08:45:40 PM »
Those torps look ... short.
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« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2003, 09:50:50 PM »
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Originally posted by GScholz
Those torps look ... short.



It's not the length of the torp...it's how you use it :D
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« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2003, 11:53:01 PM »
You can see from the picture that the PT boat in AH is badly undermodelled -- we need to lobby HiTech to add the waist guns ASAP...   ;)
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« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2003, 12:36:11 AM »
LOL! Drunky :D
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« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2003, 04:44:40 AM »
its a late war version of pt boat. possibly built by higgins of louisiana, but those are aircraft torps. they were far more reliable than than sub torps. those torps didnt have the same problems with the detonators. and you just got the props on them spinning and kick them overboard. sub torps had a black powder based firing system on the early war boats.
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« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2003, 10:54:32 AM »
and we need that radar!
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« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2003, 11:08:25 AM »
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its a late war version of pt boat. possibly built by higgins of louisiana, but those are aircraft torps. they were far more reliable than than sub torps.


The hull of the Elco PT131 was laid down 3.6.42, launched 26.8.42 and in service 9.9.42.
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« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2003, 01:22:21 PM »
PT 131, it is:)

     

  The Fitting of PT's (in the Pacific, and to a lesser extent Europe) with a ton of guns was do to the fat that were used for barge busting more and more during the war, they actual sank very few Surface ships, and late in the war it was not uncommon for them to not even cary torp's.
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