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	• PT 105 Dick Keresey US Naval Institute Press, 2003 - 232 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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Better than PT 109 books

To help my son do the PT 109 Next Generation video series, we read a lot of PT 109 books. After PT 105 was mentioned in the Ballard book, we bought this one. It has much more information about the boats, and how they worked, and combat stories. He explains the plight of one boat that abandoned ship, and had to cling two one of the inadequate life rafts that didn't even have a proper bottom. You could hold onto it, but not sit in it. There is a nice chart of the layout of the boat. Very interesting to read that the boats could do 50 knots if they had to, or fight their way right up against japanese docks to rescue people. Funniest thing was the story that PT boats had no armour - except around the refrigerator after a few got shot up. People could be replaced, but not the refrigerator which was the only way to get a cold drink. He also tells the story of a PT boat which HAD radar, but nearly got run over as they were trying to figure out the position of the ship on the blasted @#$% radar set. It's not a very long book and can be read in sections quite nicely. He also tells at the end about how he was sent to pick up survivors marked by a PBY only to find they were Japanese, and was chewed out for picking them up and dropping them off at the Army. One of these prisoners grabbed a gun and shot one of the PT 109 survivors. After the war, he would be contacted by some of these Japanese ex-prisoners who thanked him for their lives.

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My favorite PT boat book

I read this book a few years ago. My Father was a PT sailor who spent time in many of the same places covered in this book. I passed it along to my Mother. She was able to vouch for a lot of the stateside information from her personal experience - she told me it brought back some great memories.

I've read most of the books out on PT boats over the years. If I were to recommend a single book to someone who wanted to learn more, this would be the one.

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PT105 Review

I'm an American living in The Philippines and have read numbers of books about this time period during WWII. I found Mr. Keresey's book very interesting as it dealt with day to day lives of the PT crews and the day to day "routines" which were both dangerous and challenging. You centainly got the feeling that the battles we won in the war had major elements of ingenuity combined with technology and superiority. I haven't read a book before on the Pacific campaign that showed how great a part ingenuity played in keeping PT boats and weapons operating during the war. This isn't a book about any one great battle but just how these men did their duty and survived. It is well written and phased to keep your interest throughout the book. I would recommend it to anyone with an interest on WWII in the Pacific.

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Well written

This book is very well written. I am no expert on PT boats, but I have read many presonal accounts of WW2. This book is one of the best! In PT 105 Dick Keresey speaks to the reader in such a manner that you feel as though you are sitting across the table listening to him tell you his story. I recomend this book to anyone who enjoys fist hand accounts of the second world war.

Very candid, interesting, and entertaining...

Although the author is my grandfather, i can honestly say that this book would still have been my favorite personal WWII account even had i never known the man. But since i do know him, i can say that he writes just like he tells stories -- candid, un-embellished, interesting, and highly entertaining. I highly recommend the book and my only complaint is probably the only complaint you'll have if you read it -- that it's over too quickly.

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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. 16 photographs. Line drawing. Map. Paperback. 6 x 9 inches.

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