Wooden Boats & Iron Men: A World War II sailor's life story & his passion to help save one of the last surviving PT Boats

By Lilly Robbins Brock

When the author found two letters written by her now deceased father while he was on the battlefront of World War II, she knew she had to find a World War II veteran still living amongst us and tell his story. She found her veteran.Every veteran has a story. This is the life account of a World War II PT sailor whose love for the motor torpedo boat has lasted over seventy years. When the eighteen-year-old Oklahoman stepped onto the deck of the PT boat for the first time in 1944, his life was forever entwined with the PT boat.This is also the story of the rescue of PT-658 when a group of silver-haired Navy veterans set out to find and restore a surviving motor torpedo boat. When they found PT-658, she was half sunk and rotting in an estuary of San Francisco Bay. Through the efforts of this PT sailor and other veteran sailors and volunteers, the grand lady is back. PT-658 is the only fully operational World War II PT boat remaining in the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1537446258
• ISBN13: 9781537446257
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Very disappointed book

If if you want to read a book effect PT boats this is not the book it's about a guy who served like 2 months on a PT boat in the Pacific at the end of the war very poorly written