"Primarily designed for high-speed torpedo attacks against much larger adversaries, PT boats fulfilled a host of vital roles in the Pacific, English Channel, and Mediterranean during World War II.
Church bells pealed in Honolulu, Hawaii, and a gentle breeze wafted at 0750 on the fateful morning of Sunday, 7 December 1941, as ships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet lay peacefully at anchor in nearby Pearl Harbor.
Then, all hell suddenly broke loose as waves of Japanese planes swept in from a cloudless sky to attack the battleships, cruisers, and destroyers moored around Ford Island and in the Southeast Loch. Pearl Harbor was soon an inferno of bomb explosions, flames, and billowing smoke, and an unready America was thrust into World War II.
A short distance from Battleship Row, six craft of Lieutenant Commander William C. Specht's Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron (MTB Ron) 1 were moored at the Pearl Harbor submarine base. Ensign N. E. Ball, the duty officer, was gazing idly at the circling planes when he spotted the red rising-sun "meatball" insignia on their wings. "They look like Japs!" exclaimed a petty officer. Ball dashed into the nearby mess hall, where some crewmen were eating a leisurely breakfast. "We're under attack!" he shouted. "Man the guns!"…"
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