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 |
| 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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