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While we were living in
Saudi Arabia, a friend and fellow modeler, Howard Hupe, challenged
me to a PT boat building competition. His challenge was prompted
by the Dumas company sale on their PT 109 model kit. So we each
bought a kit and built a model. In the process of researching PT
boats to "kit bash" the model, I found the PT boaters'
organization, now on the web at http://www.ptboats.org, and also
Al Ross, Jr's fine plans. Al was then running "Coastal Forces"
and had plans for PT boats and the Vietnam era river patrol boats.
The plans were (and are) superb, and are available from the Floating
Drydock at http://www.floatingdrydock.com. It was later, when I
was building a model of the PT-34 and in communication with Al Ross
that I found out his father, Al Ross, Sr had served on the PT-34. |
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