{"title":"PT Squadron Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eWooden boats, four feet of draft, and nothing between them and the guns ashore. PT boat crews run the reef channels at night where no destroyer can follow, repairing on the beach by day.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"black-channel-pt-squadron-book-1","title":"Black Channel (PT Squadron Book 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe draws four feet, which is why she can go in, and why everything in there can reach her.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Kolo Point there is no pier, no crane and no dry dock, only a beach where the PT boats are run up at high water and repaired while the tide is out. Ben Harlow's PT-219 is on that sand with her middle engine apart when word comes that Roy Vessey's boat went into Black Channel and has not come out or answered since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo destroyer can get inside the reef and nothing flies at night. Harlow takes 219 through the throat under a headland gun and a searchlight, into unsounded water where the chart's inner bar is a dotted guess. Somewhere east of him is a boat exactly like his own, with her crew aboard, or with nobody at all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45288125005890,"sku":"PT-01-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/01_Black_Channel_cover_9c35c5ae-b919-4a2d-9175-b7d440353f07.jpg?v=1790727017"},{"product_id":"barge-night-pt-squadron-book-2","title":"Barge Night (PT Squadron Book 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery hull on the route is running dark, and most of them are fishing boats.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePT-219 has lost her centre engine for good, and there is no replacement block this side of a base nobody at Kolo Point has seen. Ben Harlow takes her out on two Packards to work an enemy supply route along a coast with no useful chart, where barges, sampans, fishing craft and armed launches all move at night because daylight belongs to aircraft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCroft, who runs the guns, will not fire on anything he cannot name, and the first night shows what that costs and what it saves. The shore batteries learn to shoot at where the boat has to go rather than where she is. Then PT-244 arrives with three good engines, and the two boats go back to find out what the route is really carrying.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45288125038658,"sku":"PT-02-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/02_Barge_Night_cover_2e44852b-0d66-4767-901d-db0841854e5f.jpg?v=1790727017"},{"product_id":"reef-line-pt-squadron-book-3","title":"Reef Line (PT Squadron Book 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePut six men ashore on an enemy coast. Then come back and find them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePT-219 goes out patched, with a split plank in her side, a shell that never went off still lodged in her frames, no torpedoes, and a forward turret that fires only where the boat is pointing. Her job is to land a reconnaissance party under a man named Rhodes in a rubber boat and take them off again, possibly from a different beach, called in by a lamp in the trees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Harlow takes two leadsmen, Dupree and Dray, and Dray's book of soundings from inside the reef. The coast is full of small craft that all look alike, and one of them opens fire. 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Harlow's boat runs on one shaft with a locked propeller below her keel, and Vessey's has a mattress shored into a shell hole at her waterline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaruso wires a mark on the sight glass: below it, the fuel belongs to the trip home. The after gun has been stripped to keep the port fifty firing, the forward turret shoots only straight ahead, and the enemy has learned to wait on the water a boat has to use.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45288125104194,"sku":"PT-04-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/04_Last_Fuel_cover_b437e73a-27cf-490a-9f35-1e9c9b4223f4.jpg?v=1790727017"}],"url":"https:\/\/whitemountainpress.com\/collections\/pt-squadron-series.oembed","provider":"White Mountain Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}