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PT 105

By: Dick Keresey
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
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Admittedly small and vulnerable, PT boats were, nevertheless, fast - the fastest craft on the water during World War II - and Dick Keresey's account of these tough little fighters throws new light on their contributions to the war effort. As captain of PT 105, the author was in the same battle as John F. Kennedy when Kennedy's PT 109 was rammed and sunk. The famous incident, Keresey says, has often been described inaccurately and the PT boat depicted as unreliable and ineffective. This book helps set the record straight by presenting an authentic picture of PT boats that draws on the author's experience at Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Bougainville, and Choiseul Island. Action-filled, his account describes evading night bombers, rescuing coast watchers and downed airmen, setting down Marine scouts behind Japanese lines, engaging in vicious gun battles with Japanese barges and small freighters, and contending with heat, disease, and loneliness. First published in 1996, the book has been hailed for telling an exciting yet fully accurate story.

©1996 Dick Keresey (P)2017 Tantor Armed Forces Military Naval Forces War
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one of the best ww2 tales, told with honesty. gives the listener a true sense of life of a pt skipper

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Really good….. great sense of humour and really liked the way the story was gathered up. The ending (fantastic). Thank goodness that after 50+ years there’s peace

Couldn’t put it down

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Just really good
Good good I love it so much thank you and good job

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