This book is the first comprehensive history of an important, but
mostly overlooked, element of the World War II Patrol Torpedo (PT)
boats: the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center (MTBSTC) in
Melville, Rhode Island. While not every sailor who served on PT
boats went through the training at MTBSTC, every PT sailor was
affected by what went on there. The MTBSTC created the PT boats'
operational policies and tactics, as well as weapons and equipment
experimentation and development. Even the orders the men received
for their PT boat assignment were dictated by the MTBSTC. Most of
the books written about PT boats have only a passing reference to
the MTBSTC. This lack of detailed information on the Training
Center has left a large hole in the overall printed history of PT
boats. This book fills that gap.
This book documents the Training Center from its beginnings when
the land was undeveloped swampland, through its growing pains
during construction and expansion during the war. It traces the
problems of developing a training curriculum from scratch, the
struggles to keep the training current, up through the point when
the training reached its peak of proficiency just as the war ended.
It provides insight into what life was like for the sailors that
spent two to three months going through the training program and of
those who were stationed at the Training Center as instructors or
staff personnel. This book also details the Training Center's
post-war career and its current development as a thriving marina
and boat building enterprise.
This book is culled from the MTBSTC's wartime correspondence
files and other deck logs, published and unpublished books,
articles, and reports; and interviews with PT boat veterans who
underwent the training at the MTBSTC. It is lavishly illustrated
with archival, private, and public photographs, most of which have
never been published before.
This book completes the written history of the PT boats in World
War II.
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