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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NEW ORLEANS – After all these years, she still hasn’t lost a step. Senior Captain George Benedetto pushes the throttle forward, and PT-305 – the only combat-hardened World War II boat of its kind to ...

With a throaty rumble from its three 1,500-horsepower Packard engines, PT Boat 305 eased back from its dock near Lakefront Airport on Thursday, its maiden voyage with a new mission: giving passengers ...

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 (AP) — The National World War II Museum has nearly finished restoration of a patrol torpedo boat that sank two armored German supply barges and carried U.S. commandos to French shores.

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 ...

Architect J. Clifford Grout III has spent hundreds of hours volunteering with others on a project that’s dear to his heart: working on the restoration of a historic New Orleans-built wooden PT boat ...

Struggling with a calamitous downturn in tourist traffic caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the National World War II Museum suspended cruises on its restored 78-year-old PT boat in April 2020 and ...