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5 gru 2022 · The PT-73 boat plays a crucial role in the US Navy and McHale’s series as a combat vessel. The boat was equipped with the necessary features such as weapons, a powerful engine, a lightweight hull, and a radar stereo system to make it effective in performing military moves on enemies.
19 lis 2010 · The real PT-73 was a 78-foot Higgins boat assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 13, which saw service in the Aleutians and in the Southwest Pacific theater. On 15 January, 1945 it ran aground, and was destroyed to prevent it falling into enemy hands.
After being restricted to base by Binghamton, McHale and the guys mock up a damaged PT boat, to look like the 73, so that they can sneak a load of building materials to a nearby island village, to help the natives rebuild, after an air raid.
3 mar 2015 · Mike R, I'm starting to build my old Revell PT 73 from the TV show and I'm gathering all the various items I'll need to build it. Where did you get the tripod to support the front deck 50 cal gun?
During World War II, Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale (Borgnine) is the commanding officer of the U.S. Navy PT boat PT-73, stationed at the fictional Pacific island base of Taratupa. In the late spring of 1942, the Japanese heavily bomb the island, destroying the base.
Comrades of PT 73: Directed by Sidney Lanfield. With Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway, Carl Ballantine. A Russian Naval Officer reports to McHale for PT Boat training, and, soon disgusted with the 73 Crew's lack of discipline, asks to be assigned to another Crew.
3 mar 2015 · MCHALE, The Revell 1/72nd scale Vosper MTB kit is the exact same kit, molded in a much lighter gray (almost white) plastic, with different box top art and decals -- it even includes the figures of McHale, Ensign Parker, Captain Binghampton, and Gruber.
