The Mosquito Fleet
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The Mosquito Fleet by Bern Keating is dedicated to Lieut. Commander Brinkley Bass and Lieut. Commander Clyde Hopkins McCroskey, Jr., who gallantly gave their lives during World War II. The text says the boats were built of layers of plywood, and that three Packard V-12 engines gave a 4,500-shaft horsepower and drove the boats, under ideal conditions, as fast as 45 knots, though conditions were seldom ideal.
On a second Plywood Derby, the Elcos raced against the destroyer Wilkes, and the destroyer won the race, but the Navy board had been impressed by the seaworthiness of the tough little boats. On commissioning day the squadron members did not feel elated about their future, and their first assignment was to patrol the warm blue waters off Midway Island. Squadron Fifteen was promised long, lazy afternoons of cribbage, 3,500 miles behind the combat zone, while the Tulagi PTs fought almost nightly battles with Tanaka's Tokyo Express.
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- Bern Keating
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- 165
- Language
- English
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- Military History
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