[Chainmail]

A wonderful achievement - just wish they'd found an Elco PT boat instead of a Higgins. The Higgins' were dandy, I guess but fewer in number and mainly the European theater. The Elco was the main combatant in the Pacific and (in my view) far more elegant in its lines.

BTW to the other poster, those were three Packard V-12s, not V-16s.

[Wonder Warthog]

"The Higgins' were dandy, I guess but fewer in number and mainly the European theater. The Elco was the main combatant in the Pacific and (in my view) far more elegant in its lines."

Why not forward this as a suggestion that they have one of each?? IIRC, the Higgins design originated in Louisiana, so that may be why they chose that one for a New Orleans based museum.

[elcid1970]

I once saw color footage of Elco’s burning on the beach following the Jap surrender after being stripped of everything useful.

Those boats would otherwise have been used for smuggling or piracy, lucrative trades in the postwar Pacific & south China Sea.

[headstamp 2]

“The Higgins’ were dandy, I guess but fewer in number and mainly the European theater. The Elco was the main combatant in the Pacific and (in my view) far more elegant in its lines.”

The Elco had the lower swept sides toward the stern?