Devil Boats The PT War Against Japan Author:William Breuer "The Buccaneers of the South Pacific" — That's what the "steel ship" Navy called them - PT sailors who dressed like pirates, borrowed tactics from Prohibition rum-runners, and outraced Japanese bullets in high-powered plywood "Mosquito" boats. — But the Japanese didn't scoff - for these were the terrifying Green Dragons, the deadly Devil Boats of ... more »the Night.
Now, military historian William Breuer presents a vivid and exciting true-life account of the PT war against Japan. Here are some of the most daring exploits of all time: the shooting down of the first enemy plane just minutes after the Pearl Harbor disaster, "wild Man " Buck Bulkeley's rescue of MacArthur and kidnapping of the Philippine president, John F. Kennedy's heroic attempt to save his shipmates from the wreck of PT 109, and much more...
It's all here - in this dramatic tribute to the brave men who crewed the Devil Boats and turned the tides of World War II.« less