Two U.S. Navy PT boat captains awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II were both cases in point: Lt. Cmdr. John Bulkeley ...

Peter Bickmore was aboard the Royal Navy's Motor Torpedo Boat 243 when a devastating air ... Peter received the British Empire Medal (BEM) "for outstanding gallantry shown in the rescue work ...

He was 99. Chandler, who served aboard a British motor torpedo boat during the invasion of Normandy that began June 6, 1944, was one of the dwindling cohort of D-Day survivors who gathered last ...