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ť Topic: PT NAMES MASTER LIST
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Will

Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: May 17, 2010 - 10:30am
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Will,
This is great. Thanks a lot.
Gary

Posted By: Gary Paulsen | Posted on: May 17, 2010 - 11:28am
Total Posts: 252 | Joined: Feb 14, 2009 - 6:31am

Ted has already pointed out one inconsistancy with the name of the 48 boat. That's the kind of stuff we need to hear....

Will

Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: May 17, 2010 - 2:01pm
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Very nice Will. We appreciate your hard work.............

Posted By: Frank J Andruss Sr | Posted on: May 17, 2010 - 3:47pm
Total Posts: 3547 | Joined: Oct 9, 2006 - 6:09am

Will, You da MAN! You too Dick! Thanks Jerry PT658 Portland OR

Jerry Gilmartin

Posted By: Jerry Gilmartin | Posted on: May 17, 2010 - 5:26pm
Total Posts: 1498 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 11:16pm

Per Allan Lawrence photo: PT-377 = CRUNCHER

Will

Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: May 17, 2010 - 8:44pm
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Thank you Will, very interesting! Where did you dig all those names up at? And thank you too Dick for posting on your web site.

Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: May 18, 2010 - 4:31am
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Jeff: The list comes from anyplace and everyplace. Books, photos, word-of-mouth, you name it. There will obviously be inaccuracies, but at least it gives us some point of reference. Obviously, I'm hoping people on this board can help to expand the list. That is what happened when it was first published on the PT-108 site some years ago.

Will

Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: May 18, 2010 - 6:04am
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Still find it hard to believe the 109 was actually nicknamed "JFK."

Posted By: Drew Cook | Posted on: May 18, 2010 - 9:12am
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When I had become friends with Gerard Zinser and Maurice Kowal, I had asked both of them about the nickname of the boat. Here is something interesting. Zinser right away told me "No, we never even heard that before. We called Kennedy "Skipper or Shafty", but as far as we knew no one named the boat JFK. Kowal, in my visit to him a few years back, said he remembered something like that, but could not be sure. Interesting in that both men served on the 109, yet they seemed very unsure of this nickname and could nt really say Yes to that fact. It more or less proves my earlier post about some of the Crewmembers not even knowing about nicknames of the boats.............

Posted By: Frank J Andruss Sr | Posted on: May 18, 2010 - 9:20am
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Exactly. Part of the mystique, I guess...

Will

Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: May 18, 2010 - 9:25am
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