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PT boat

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Copyright

PT boat n.a motor torpedo boat (MTB), usually built by one of three ship-builders (Elco, Higgins, or Huckins) between 1942 and 1945, designed originally as antiship weapons and equipped with powerful Packard gasoline engines. These fast, maneuverable boats had wooden hulls and were anywhere from 60 to 100 ft (18 to 30 m) in length. During World War II, PT (patrol torpedo) boats operated all over the Pacific, in the Mediterranean, and in the English Channel, and were used primarily to attack surface ships, but they also laid mines, created smoke screens, rescued downed aviators, and performed intelligence or raider missions as well. Also called mosquito boats.
1940s: from P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat.

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PT boat

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | | Copyright

PT boat. Officially designated a Patrol Craft Torpedo, this 24 m. (78 ft.) high-speed craft, armed with two torpedo tubes, was the US equivalent of the British MTB and the German E-boat. See also warships.

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PT boat

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

PT boat • n. a motorboat equipped with torpedoes and used by the military, esp. during World War II.

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PT boat

The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations | 1998 | | Copyright

PT boat (USA) patrol torpedo boat

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FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "PT boat." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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	Profile: Search for World War II boat, PT-109 Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 7/10/2002
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