PT Boat Training Film

An 8-minute, U.S. government produced training film promoting the Motor Torpedo Boat service. The actual title is “The PT Boat, Their Place in the Navy”. It features Lieutenant Commander John D. Bulkeley addressing a new group of recruits at the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center, Melville, Rhode Island. The video continues by narration depicting many typical scene where recruits are trained at skills for their MOS for the PT boat service. The boats used in the film include later models of Elco 77-foot and early Higgins 78-foot boats.

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