William R. Boyd Navy Pictures
Dad served aboard PT boats as a Motor Machinist Mate. The above picture is from the book The United States Mosquito Fleet by Bob Ferrel. I did not know too much about what dad did in the Navy because either I didn't ask while he was alive and he did not talk about it when he was. Just recently I discovered that there was a PT boat museum right here where I live in Memphis, Tennessee. I visited the museum and found it full of wonderful information about the service and about dad. He was originally assigned to what they called Base 21 which was a place called Mois Woendi which was on a little island off of New Guinea. According to an article titled San Pedro Sea Stories by Gordie Crawford in the PT Boater Spring 2000 issue, he states "I'm enclosing poorly copied logs of our escorting an entire PT boat base from Woendi to Morotai."
The people at the PT boat museum told me that dad was stationed at Mois Woendi but we have a picture of dad that says on the back of it Morotai. So from this article, the base was moved to Morotai at some point.
The above picture is of a man riding one of the engines in a PT boat, which is what dad did.
The pictures below and the next two pages are from a collection of his that we had kept in boxes. They have now been preserved and put into the PT Boat Museum here in Memphis, Tennessee. They have a very nice website at http://www.ptboats.org .
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