[Milsurplus] Higgins PT Boats (and summer reading list)

[Joe Foley]

Nah!  Ya' missed one!!

If you're going to do a history of them you need to do
a search for the CSS Squib.

Joe



--- jcoward5452 at aol.com wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>   I too have an interest in this topic since one of
> my great uncles 
> (deceased) commanded a PT boat in the PTO.I never
> got to hear much 
> about it though except I recall him refering to "a
> Hiiggins boat" once.
>   Anyway,here is a list of books that you all might
> find entertaining 
> and enlightening regarding this topic:
> 
> Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats that Won World
> War II by Jerry E. 
> Strahan ISBN 0-8071-2339-0
> American PT Boats in World War II by Victor Chun
> ISBN-0-7643-0256-6
> PT Boats at War,World War II to Vietnam by Norman
> Polmar and Samual 
> Loring Morison ISBN 0-7603-0499-8
> Devil Boats,The PT War Against Japan by William
> Breuer ISBN 
> 0-89141-269-7
> They Were Expendable by W.L. White
> 
> Web searches have turned up a lot of interesting
> info but not much on 
> radio gear.
> 
> I'd like to aquire a SO radar set someday...
>  Jay KE6PPF
> 
> 
>
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