FALL RIVER — Not everyone knows that former president John F. Kennedy commanded not one but two PT boats during World War II. It’s widely known that he was badly injured and personally saved a crew ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – He’s 92 years old. He’s ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — PT-305 now sits behind a white tarp in a dry dock at Seabrook Harbor and Marine in New Orleans. Before the Covid shutdown, the refurbished World War II era Navy vessel was in the water, ...

INWOOD, Manhattan (WABC) -- From the mud and muck of the Harlem River, a piece of American history has been uncovered. The MTA recently discovered the main hatchway from a World War II-era warship ...

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 ...

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 ...

SYLVAN BEACH -- PT-728, the World War II era boat headed for Port Clinton, Ohio along the Erie Canal, made it to Oneida Lake Wednesday afternoon. By 12:20 p.m., the craft had traveled through Lock 21 ...

A Colorado man and World War II vet who called his years as a solider “one of the greatest times of his life” was honored last month, rightly so. Bill King is 95. He lives in Estes Park by himself. He ...

JFK’s heroic actions earned him the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, as well as a Purple Heart. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's newly-confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), ...