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Med PT boats hunt German ships off Northern Italy
A U S Navy PT boat crew based in Northern Italy describes daytime life at a harbor HQ, the dangers of coastwise torpedo operations near Spezia and Genoa, and a night run where a British plan sent two torpedoes into a German harbor. Lt. Robert Nagle commands PT 559, an ELCO with three Packard engines, as officers praise the Mediterranean campaign and contrast it with the Pacific theater.
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U.S. Navy
Pennsylvania
Eddie
June
Frank Jones
Navy
France
Frank
Mediterranean
Genoa
Italy
Fifth Army
Spezia
Albert von Kesselring
South
Southwest
Pacific
Stanley Livingston Jr
Honolulu
Yale
Ralph Pope Jr
Brookline
Mass
Harvard
Lt. Pope
Caribbean
Army
Liberty
Higgins
Elcos
ELCO
559
Robert Nagle
Cranford
N. J