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Photo # 19-N-33168:  USS PT-107 (right) stowed aboard SS Joseph Stanton, August 1942

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USS PT-107, 1942-1944

USS PT-107, an 80-foot ELCO type motor torpedo boat, was placed in service with Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron FIVE in early July 1942. Following training and defensive duty in the Panama Canal Zone area, in the spring of 1943 she was shipped to the Solomon Islands for front-line service in the war against Japan. In July 1943, her squadron moved forward to the new base at Rendova, in the Central Solomons, where she actively employed in combat operations. PT-107 fired her four torpedos at Japanese destroyers during a night battle in Blackett Strait on the night of 1-2 August 1943. In the middle of that month, she put troops ashore during the preliminary phase of the invasion of Vella Lavella Island.

For the rest of 1943 and into 1944, PT-107 took part in her squadron's operations in the Central and Northern Solomons and in the Bismarcks. On 18 June 1944, after participating in a patrol off Japanese-held New Ireland, PT-107 was destroyed by an accidental gasoline fire in Hamburg Bay, Emirau Island.

This page features our only views of USS PT-107.


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Photo #: 19-N-33168

USS PT-108
(left) and
USS PT-107 (right)

Stowed on board the "Liberty Ship" Joseph Stanton for transportation to the Pacific. Photographed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 20 August 1942.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 620 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS PT-107. The following list features some of these images:

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: 80-G-17415
    Starboard bow view of PT-107 running at high speed during exercises off the East Coast, 12 July 1942.

  • Photo #: 80-G-17417
    Close-up port side view of PT-107, from just aft of her bow to her after (port) machine gun mount, taken in Long Island Sound, 13 July 1942. The photo provides a good view of the boat's port forward torpedo tube.

  • Photo #: 80-G-17418
    Close-up port bow view of PT-107, from just aft of her bow to her conning position, taken in Long Island Sound, 13 July 1942. Two officers are standing on her foredeck, flanked by Sailors preparing to pass lines.


  • Photo #: 80-G-20857
    Starboard side view (somewhat toward the stern) of PT-107 running at high speed during exercises off the East Coast, 12 July 1942. The boat appears to be heeled somewhat to starboard, providing a view of her deck. She is armed with torpedo tubes forward, with several depth charges mounted in place of her after torpedo tubes.

  • Photo #: 80-G-20858
    Starboard side view of PT-107 running at high speed during exercises off the East Coast, 12 July 1942. Another PT boat is running in formation in the background, beyond her stern.

  • Photo #: 80-G-20861
    Port side view (somewhat toward the stern) of PT-107 running at high speed during exercises off the East Coast, 12 July 1942.

    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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