Another 5-star review for BUILDING THE PT BOATS.
Building the PT Boats is excellent!, July 20, 2009
By Jerry N. Gilmartin Jr. “Jerry PT 658″ (Portland, OR) – See all my reviews
Hello,
I am involved in the restoration of PT Boat 658 in Portland Oregon and have been involved with PT Boats for 15 years now. I am a member of the Save the PT Boat Inc Board of Directors, and have been interested in them all of my life. I showed Franks book to the entire PT Boat group, which consists of 10-15 WW2 PT veterans and everyone was amazed at the rare content of this book as well as the authoritative descriptions and presentation as a whole. Frank has a wealth of great photos in the book that you simply cannot find anywhere else and I feel truly fortunate that he was able to share them with us. Anybody who has even a passing interest in PT Boats, from history buffs to modelers, will be unable to put this book down. It will also increase in value as you keep referring back to it for one more look at these rare photos. I would rate this book very high in any collection of books on this subject. Jerry
via Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Building the PT Boats: An Illustrated History of U.S. Navy Torpedo Boat Construction in World War II.
Here’s a tricky one. It appears that PLEXIGLAS(tm) should only be used for the German-manufactured stuff (now owned by Rohm and Haas), so unless we know for a fact that the substance used is Rohm & Haas PLEXIGLAS(tm), the term “acryclic glass” is safer.
In 1933 the German chemist Otto Röhm patented and registered the brand name PLEXIGLAS. In 1936 the first commercially viable production of acrylic safety glass began. During World War II acrylic glass was used for submarine periscopes, and windshields, canopies, and gun turrets for airplanes. [1]
via Acrylic glass – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Naval authors write PQ-17, PQ17, PQ.17, and PQ 17: #usagefail1
Wikipedia seems to have settled on spaces in convoy names. I agree with the “plurality of sources” rationale.
Perhaps I’m wrong, but it looks like the consensus was to use a space since the plurality of sources
via Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Archive 82 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Whether you call the LCS the modern equivalent of a torpedo boat, or the modern equivalent of a torpedo boat destroyer, either way it is a validation of the threat from small, fast ships so well chronicled in Joe Hinds’s THE DEFINITIVE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE TORPEDO BOAT.
We will increase the buy of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) – a key capability for presence, stability, and counterinsurgency operations in coastal regions – from two to three ships in FY 2010. Our goal is to eventually acquire 55 of these ships.
via DefenseLink Speech
Some great discussion of Joe Hind’s magnum opus in the thread below. The message board is a great find for anyone interested in MTBs!
The PT Boat Message Board – “The Definitive Illustrated History of the Torpedo Boat”.
The front and back covers of THE DEFINITIVE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE TORPEDO BOAT: VOLUME III, 1900 – 1939 by Joe Hinds (Nimble Books, March 31, 2009).
From Vince O’Hara, Nimble author and expert on the Italian navy:
Regarding the MAS boats, your choice. The Italians prefer MAS 15. I’ve used that format (in Warship 2008 and 2009) and also MAS15 (Struggle for the Middle Sea). I’ve never seen MAS.15 or MAS-15, but that’s probably because I haven’t looked hard enough.
Naval history is full of acronyms and numeric abbreviations and consistency has proved hard to achieve.
