It had been thought this boat was formerly PT-95, a 78-foot Huckins PT Boat, a very different (training only) design with no significant wartime history, and hence no immediate efforts were made to save the vessel.
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PT-59 remained in the Solomons until August 1944, when she and five other 77-ft Elco PT Boats were transported back to the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center at Melville, Rhode Island.
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No sooner had the boats turned to leave than they were attacked by four other P-40s of 78 Squadron and a Beaufighter heavy fighter of 30 Squadron RAAF.
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At 0745, four P-40s fighters of 78 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force operating out of Kiriwina, flew over and Lieutenant Hall asked them by radio to investigate the schooner.
Taking heavy fire from the planes, PT-350 shot down one of the two attacking fighters, believing them to be A6M Zeros.
The exploits of PT-41 are portrayed in the 1945 film They Were Expendable directed by John Ford with
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With no more torpedoes available for PT-41 to use, it was commandeered by the United States Army to patrol Lake Lanao, Mindanao.
Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109, the boat commanded by John F. Kennedy during World War II