File:PT-131 before Battle of Surigao Strait 1944.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy motor torpedo boat PT-131 (foreground) and other ELCO type PT boats preparing for the Battle of Surigao Strait, about 24 October 1944. Note the Mark XIII torpedos, rockets, mortar (atop PT-131's forward deckhouse), 20 mm machine cannon and 12.7 mm caliber machine guns carried by these PT boats.
Date circa 24 October 1944
date QS:P,+1944-10-24T00:00:00Z/11,P1480,Q5727902
Source Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-345819 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author USN, photographed from USS Wachapreague (AGP-8).

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