FREDERICKSBURG -- Fifty years after seeing combat in the Mediterranean, PT 309 reached its final port of call Thursday at the National Museum of the Pacific War. "It couldn't be any nicer," said Ollie ...

Joseph Cirlot of Moss Point is fourth from left in back row of this photo of the first crew to serve aboard PT boat 305, now under full restoration at the WWII Museum in New Orleans. The father of ...

A historic World War II boat that survived dozens of operations -- and a few near-misses -- on the other side of the Atlantic is finally heading home to the waters where its journey began more than 70 ...

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Just after 7 a.m. Saturday, a 78-foot-long wooden patrol torpedo boat from World War II rolled through the Warehouse District, starting at the National World War II Museum. After it passed around and ...

NEW ORLEANS - The PT-305 boat rolled down the streets of New Orleans Saturday as it returns home to The National WWII Museum Campus. Obtained by the Museum in 2007, PT-305 was originally housed in KRP ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — Engines growling, its bow high above the water and a rooster-tail of spray rising in its wake, the nation’s only fully restored combat veteran PT boat traced the course where it was ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A moving museum, PT-305 pulls away from its new boat house on the New Orleans lakefront. Patrol Boat 305 is the only PT boat that saw combat duty in World War Two and is again ...

On a recent Friday afternoon on New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain, PT-305 sat quietly in her boathouse, not giving any inclination as to what she saw in the Mediterranean during World War II, for which ...