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- catalog abstract "Admittedly small and vulnerable, the PT boats were, nevertheless, fast - the fastest craft on the water during World War II - and Dick Keresey's account of these tough little fighters throws new light on their unique contributions to the war effort. As captain of PT 105, Keresey was in the same battle as John F. Kennedy when Kennedy's PT 109 was rammed and sunk. The famous incident, Keresey says, has often been described inaccurately, with the PT boat depicted as unreliable and ineffective. This book helps set the record straight by presenting an authentic picture of PT boats in the Pacific. Shot at more than twenty times, the author not only served as a PT officer in the Guadalcanal, New Georgia, and Bougainville campaigns and the Choiseul Island raid, but developed and taught torpedo boat tactics after his combat service. Keresey's experiences are still fresh in his memory, and he offers an action-filled account of life on a PT boat: evading deadly night bombers, rescuing coastwatchers and downed airmen, setting down Marine scouts behind Japanese lines, and engaging in vicious gun battles with Japanese barges and small freighters - all the while contending with heat, disease, and loneliness. Keresey recalls two occasions when Kennedy rescued him, and he describes PT 105's controversial rescue of Japanese sailors and his own poignant reunion with one of those sailors fifty years later.".
- catalog alternative "PT one hundred five".
- catalog contributor b9652098.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Admittedly small and vulnerable, the PT boats were, nevertheless, fast - the fastest craft on the water during World War II - and Dick Keresey's account of these tough little fighters throws new light on their unique contributions to the war effort.".
- catalog description "As captain of PT 105, Keresey was in the same battle as John F. Kennedy when Kennedy's PT 109 was rammed and sunk. The famous incident, Keresey says, has often been described inaccurately, with the PT boat depicted as unreliable and ineffective. This book helps set the record straight by presenting an authentic picture of PT boats in the Pacific.".
- catalog description "Keresey recalls two occasions when Kennedy rescued him, and he describes PT 105's controversial rescue of Japanese sailors and his own poignant reunion with one of those sailors fifty years later.".
- catalog description "Keresey's experiences are still fresh in his memory, and he offers an action-filled account of life on a PT boat: evading deadly night bombers, rescuing coastwatchers and downed airmen, setting down Marine scouts behind Japanese lines, and engaging in vicious gun battles with Japanese barges and small freighters - all the while contending with heat, disease, and loneliness.".
- catalog description "Shot at more than twenty times, the author not only served as a PT officer in the Guadalcanal, New Georgia, and Bougainville campaigns and the Choiseul Island raid, but developed and taught torpedo boat tactics after his combat service.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 211 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "PT 105.".
- catalog identifier "1557504601 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "PT 105.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press,".
- catalog relation "PT 105.".
- catalog spatial "Pacific Area.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "940.54/5973 20".
- catalog subject "D770 .K45 1996".
- catalog subject "Keresey, Dick, 1916-".
- catalog subject "Sailors United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Torpedo-boats United States.".
- catalog subject "United States. Navy Biography.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American.".
- catalog title "PT 105 / Dick Keresey.".
- catalog title "PT one hundred five".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Personal narratives American. fast".
- catalog type "text".