NEW ORLEANS (AP) – 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 ...

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 ...

The wooden boat that will dock Monday at the east end of the Hawthorne Bridge is no ordinary vessel. It’s , the last remaining operable PT boat from World War II. For 18 years, PT boat veterans and ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. Navy PT boat that sank three vessels and saw action in Europe in World War II is back in New Orleans where it was built, what historians describe as the nation”s only fully ...

PT-305 recently added another and perhaps final leg to its remarkable journey. The patrol torpedo boat was built in New Orleans in 1943 at the Higgins Industries City Park plant. Tested on Lake ...

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 ...

The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21, 1944. (Navy ...

An otherwise splendid preview cruise of the National World War II Museum's lovingly restored PT-305 on Thursday (March 16) ended more abruptly than anticipated as the 1943 patrol-torpedo boat bumped ...

The 305 isn't the only working PT boat — the PT-658 also made by the Higgins Industries boatyard in New Orleans — was restored by a group of PT boat veterans in Portland, Oregon, and has been running ...

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 ...

The PT 305, which was restored by the National WWII Museum, cruises with guests of the museum Thursday, March 16, 2017, on Lake Pontchartrain, where she was originally tested by Higgins Industries ...