August 1, 1942; along with other boats of MTB Squadrons Two and Three, PT 61 is in transit to commissioning ceremonies for the newly-established naval base on island of Taboga, located ten miles from the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal. Officer holding binoculars is Rear Adm. Clifford E. Van Hook, Commandant of the Fifteenth Naval District. Squadron Three CO Lt. Cmdr. Alan R. Montgomery (wearing sunglasses) is speaking with the admiral's chief of staff, Capt. Ellis Stone. (Author's collection via Acme Newspictures)

Entrance to "Searlesvile", the motor torpedo boat base in the Russell Islands, sometime in 1943.(National Archives)

PT 30, off Midway, 1943. (National Archives)

Pearl Harbor; performing routine weapons maintenance, PT 21, April, 1942. (National Archives)

The Scott-Paine PV70, the soon to be PT 9, on trials, September-October 1939.