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Patrol torpedo boat PT-42

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Meanwhile, at 1920 CNAS Midway decided to employ his motor torpedo boats as an attack squadron and sent a squadron of nine MTBs from Midway and two MTBs from Kure Island to attack the task force containing the burning carriers. They were unable to locate the target. With the coming of daylight they
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for MTBRon 1's assignment to the Philippines and as she could not get her motors started, the hydraulics on their gun turrets were not operative. Crewmembers cut the hydraulic lines and operated the turrets manually. All 12 boats of the squadron fired on the attacking Japanese aircraft with one,
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shipyard; launched on 12 July 1941; and completed on 25 July 1941. She was commissioned and attached to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Two (MTBRon 2) under the command of Lt. Comdr. Earl S. Caldwell and assigned to patrol the
757: 25: 600:...when Squadron 1 was directed on 13 August to prepare for assignment to the Pacific Fleet, it was assigned the most nearly complete of the remaining boats, PTs 20 to 30 and 747: 709: 762: 327:. On 13 August 1941, she was transferred to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron One (MTBRon 1) under the command of Lt. William C. Specht and assigned to 661:
Beachheads Secured Volume I: The History of Patrol Torpedo (PT) Boats, Their Bases, and Tenders of World War II June 1939-August 31, 1945
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In May 1942, the squadron was reassigned to Lt. Clinton McKellar Jr. and tasked with the defense of
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had broken a crankshaft en route and was forced to return to Pearl Harbor).
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2 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes; Four torpedoes
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and laid down on 5 May 1941 at the Elco Works of the
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Electric Boat Company
Call sign




Patrol torpedo boat
GRT
o/a
hp
kW
Battle of Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway
PT-20-class
motor torpedo boat
United States Navy
World War II
United States Navy
Electric Launch Company
Electric Boat Company
Bayonne, New Jersey
Panama Canal Zone
Pearl Harbor
attack on Pearl Harbor
replenishment oiler
Ramapo
PT-23
Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers
Midway Island

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