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Photo # 80-G-K-3911:  USS PT-332 operating at high speed off New York, 20 August 1943

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USS PT-332, 1943-1945

USS PT-332, an 80-foot ELCO type motor torpedo boat, was placed in service in May 1943 as part of Motor Boat Squadron TWENTY FOUR. Following training off the U.S. East Coast, she was transported to the southwestern Pacific to participate in operations along the northern shore of New Guinea. On the night of 4-5 June 1944 she took part in the destruction of two Japanese barges near the mouth of the Sepic River.

In December 1944 MTB 'Ron 24 moved up to the Philippines. While en route from Leyte Gulf to Mindoro on 28 December, PT-332 was damaged when the ammunition-filled "Liberty" ship John Burke blew up after being hit by a suicide plane. She later operated in the southern Philippines and off Borneo, where on the night of 29-30 April she sank one enemy lugger and damaged several others with rockets and gunfire. After Japan's surrender, the war-weary PT-332 was no longer needed, and not worth the effort to transport back to the United States. She was placed out of service, stripped and destroyed in November 1945.

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Photo #: 80-G-K-3911 (Color)

USS PT-332

Operating at high speed off New York, New York, 20 August 1943, during the training period of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 24.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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