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On Wed, 7/22/15, Kurt Feltenberger <kurt@thepaw.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML]Bettersituationalawareness
 To: tml@simplelists.com
 Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2015, 7:19 AM

 On 7/22/2015 10:16 AM,
 Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
 > Hey
 Kurt,
 >
 > One thing
 I've always wondered about was exactly how the
 'boats were transferred from one base to another.
 > For example, when thing finally wound down
 in the Solomons & the decision was made to transfer PT
 Boats elsewhere, how was it done?
 >
 > p.s. I imagine PT ops evolved quite a bit
 from the early Philippines to the Solomons & then to the
 later Phillipines.

 I know
 my dad said the flotilla was located on several islands
 during
 the war, and I would suspect they
 either made the transit under their
 own
 power or were carried by an LST.  They did have a dedicated
 tender,
 IIRC it was named Platypus (though
 I've only found one record of it, so
 the name may be wrong).

 One thing he did say that caused pretty much
 his entire crew to want to
 go out and get
 drunk was at the end of the war the Navy simply torched
 them on site.

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It's just occurred to me that with the major 'upgunning' previously mentioned, the size of the crew must've increased significantly just in order to man all those extra guns.
Any idea how much the crew increased?

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