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...Southwest Pacific, Allied airmen who failed to recognize identification signals sank two American PT boats off New Britain. Lost...
Soon Admiral Kinkaid's PT boats will be using Talasea harbor as a base. Meanwhile Kinkaid's navy, composed mostly of small craft, roams the Bismarck Sea at will, bears down with flaming guns to silence Jap shore batteries. Even PTs serve prominently in such activities. MacArthur described them as "shelling" several Jap positions. Observers of the heightening South Pacific war concluded that heavier weapons have been added to the PTs' cluster of 50-caliber guns to help exploit the advantages and widening opportunities of the Bismarck...
Navy Lieut. Alfred GwynneVanderbilt, 31-year-old turfman turned South Pacific PT-boat skipper, was photographed with his 29-year-old brother George (also a lieutenant) at an advanced base in New Guinea (see cut). Apparently greasemonkeys to a considerable chunk of naval equipment, the descendants of the fabulous, family-founding skipper of the Staten Island ferry betrayed their rank only by their officer-like mustaches...
...scorching tropic sun, amidst the quack of bena birds and the coo of kura kura pigeons, dressed in khaki pants and shirt, he taught the new amphibious doctrine, which he was learning himself, to the officers under his heterogeneous command: air officers, marine colonels, brigadier generals, destroyer captains, PT commanders, crusty transport skippers...
...keep away from water. In the time he could spare from helping his father raise apples and peaches, he learned to row, eventually became the world's sculling champion. War brought Joe, appropriately, to the Navy. The Navy made him an officer and skipper of a speedy PT boat...