Japanese Called American PT Boats "Mosquito Fleets" — Until PT-109 Rammed a Destroyer and Survived
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Japanese Called American PT Boats "Mosquito Fleets" — Until PT-109 Rammed a Destroyer and Survived
The destroyer weighed two thousand tons and moved at thirty-eight knots through pitch-black water. The patrol boat weighed fifty-six tons and floated dead in the strait with engines off. When steel met plywood at 0230 hours on August 2, 1943, physics dictated only one outcome - the complete obliteration of the smaller vessel and every man aboard. Yet eleven sailors survived a collision that should have vaporized them, and the young officer who led them through six days of salt water, coral reefs, and enemy-infested islands would later become president of the United States.
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