US PT Boats List: Squadron List

Revised 11 August 1997
Version 1.00
Compiled by: Steve Laroe (s.laroe@genie.com)
Maintained by: Andrew Toppan (actoppan@hazegray.org)
URL: http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/pt/


                           MTB RON 1
 Commissioned 24,July 1940           LT Earl S. Caldwell USN
 Decommissioned 9,February 1945      LT Edward M. Erikson USNR
 PT 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 PT 20-31,33,35,37,39,41-43
 Assigned to Phillippines, fought at Pearl Harbor, Midway and in the
 Aleutians.

                           MTB RON 2(1)
 Commissioned 8,November 1940        LCDR Earl S. Caldwell
 Decommissioned 11,November 1943     LT Alvin P. Cluster
 PT 20-26, 28,30,32,34,36-40,42-48, 59-61
 Operated the 70' Scott-Paines until xfr to Britian in April & July
 of 1941. Was assigned to the Panama Sea Frontier in December of 1941.
 Then with six ELCOs to South Pacific late in 1942. Reconstituted with
 PT 71,72, 199 for special OSS missions in the English channel, carried
 out 20 between May and October of 1944

                           MTB RON 2(2)
 Commissioned 23,March 1944          CDR John D. Bulkeley
 Decommissioned 21,September 1945    LT Joseph R. Ellicott USNR


                           MTB RON 3(1)
 Commissioned 12, August 1941        LT John D. Bulkeley
 Decommissioned
 PT 31,32,33,34,35,41
 All boats expended by 15,April 1942


                           MTB RON 3(2)
 Commissioned 27,July 1942           LCDR Alan R. Montgomery
 Decommissioned 7,August 1944        LTjg Jay J. Reynolds
 PT 21,23,25,26,36,39,40,45-48,59,60,61
 In the Philippines (the "expendables"), the first to arrive at
 Guadalcanal

                           MTB RON 4
 Commissioned 13,January 1942        LT Rollin E. Westholm
 Decommissioned 15,April 1946        LCDR John K. Williams USNR
 PT 59-68,71,72,95-102,139-141,199,200,295,296,314-317,450-452,
 PT 486,487,505,545,557-559,564,613,616,619,620
 Was the training squadron (RON) at Melville,RI. In April 1946 MTBRON 4
 consisted of PT 613,616, and PT 619,620 was xfrd to the Operational
 Development Force.

                           MTB RON 5
 Commissioned 16,June 1942           CDR Henry Farrow
 Decommissioned 15,February 1945     LT John W. Ewell USNR
 PT 62-65, 103-114,314-319
 In Panama and then from spring of 1943 on in the South Pacific


                           MTB RON 6
 Commissioned 4,August 1942          LCDR Clifton R. Maddux
 Decommissioned 29,May 1944          LCDR Richard E. Johnson
 PT 115-126, 187-189
 Formed in the South Pacific


                           MTB RON 7
 Commissioned 4,September 1943       LT Rollin E. Westholm
 Decommissioned 15,February 1945     LT Roger H. Hallowell USNR
 PT 127-138
 In the Southwest Pacific


                           MTB RON 8
 Commissioned 10,October 1942        LCDR Barry K. Atkins
 Decommissioned 28,October 1945      LT William C. Godfrey
 PT 66-68,110-114,120-122,129-130,142-150,188
 In Southwest Pacific


                           MTB RON 9
 Commissioned 10,November 1942       LCDR Robert B. Kelly
 Decommissioned 24,November 1945     LT Edward R. Burns USNR
 PT 126,151-162,187,318,319
 In Southwest Pacific


                           MTB RON 10
 Commissioned 9,December 1942        LCDR Thomas G. Warfield
 Decommissioned 11,November 1945     Frederick N. Goehner USNR
 PT 108,116,124,125,163-174
 South Pacific


                           MTB RON 11
 Commissioned 20,January 1943        LCDR LeRoy T. Taylor
 Decommissioned 11,Novenber 1945     LT Wendel E. Carroll USNR
 PT 175-186
 South Pacific


                           MTB RON 12
 Commissioned 18,February 1943       LCDR John Harllee
 Decommissioned 26,October 1945      LT John J. McGlynn USNR
 PT 127,145,146,150-152,187-196
 In Southwest Pacific, first to have torpedo launching racks instead
 on tubes.

                           MTB RON 13
 Commissioned 18,September 1942      CDR James B. Denny
 Decommissioned 23,November 1945     LCDR John A. Matzinger USNR
 PT 73-84
 In Aleutian campain March 43-May 44, then Southwest Pacific.


                           MTB RON 14
 Commissioned 17,February 1943       LT Richard E. Johnson
 Decommissioned 16,September 1944    LT Henry S. Taylor USNR
 PT 98-102
 Assigned to Panama Sea Frontier, no enemy action


                           MTB RON 15
 Commissioned 20,January 1943        CDR Stanley M. Barnes
 Decommissioned 17,October 1944
 PT 201-218
 First RON sent to Mediterranean, operated western Med from Bizerte,
 Palermo Sicily;Salerno;Maddalena,Sardinia;St. Topez Franch

                           MTB RON 16
 Commissioned 26,February 1943       LCDR Russell H. Smith
 Decommissioned 26,November 1945     LT John V. McElroy USNR
 PT 71,72,213-224,235,241,242,295-301
 In the Aleutians and Southwest Pacific

                           MTB RON 17
 Commissioned 29,March 1943          LCDR Russell B. Allen
 Decommissioned 19,November 1945     LT James F. Hill USNR
 PT 225-234
 In Hawaii, the Marshalls and then Southwest Pacific

                           MTB RON 18
 Commissioned 27,March 1943          LCDR Henry M.S.Swift USNR
 Decommissioned 1,November 1945      LT Raymond S. Patton USNR
 PT 103-105,147,148,362-371

                           MTB RON 19
 Commissioned 22,April 1943          LCDR Russell H. Smith
 Decommissioned 15,May 1944          LCDR Glenn R. Van Ness USNR
 PT 235-244
 In South Pacific, was broken up in May of 1944, remaining boats
 to RON 20 & RON 23

                           MTB RON 20
 Commissioned 3,June 1943            LCDR Glenn R. Van Ness USNR
 Decommissioned 24,November 1945     LT Edward A. Green Jr. USNR
 PT 235-254
 In South and Southwest Pacific

                           MTB RON 21
 Commissioned 8,April 1943           LCDR Selman S. Bowling
 Decommissioned 10,November 1945     LT Harry R. Hunt USNR
 PT 128,131,132,320-31
 Southwest Pacific

                           MTB RON 22
 Commissioned 10,November 1943       LCDR Richard J. Dressling
 Decommissioned 15,November 1945     LCDR Richard J. Dressling
 PT 302-313
 Assigned to Mediterranean

                           MTB RON 23
 Commissioned 28,June 1943           LCDR Ronald K. Irving
 Decommissioned 26,November 1945     LT Donald F. Galloway USNR
 PT 241-44, 277-288
 South and Southwest Pacific

                           MTB RON 24
 Commissioned 10,May 1943            LCDR N. Bert Davis
 Decommissioned 6,November 1945      LT Joseph K. Roberts USNR
 PT 106, 332-343
 Southwest Pacific

                           MTB RON 25
 Commissioned 17,June 1943           LT Daniel S. Baughman Jr. USN
 Decommissioned 9,November 1945      LT Frederick A. Stevens Jr. USNR
 PT 115, 134, 344-355
 Southwest Pacific

                           MTB RON 26
 Commissioned 3,March 1943           LT Robert Leeson USNR
 Decommissioned 3,December 1945      LCDR Lester H. Gamble USN
 PT 255-264 78'Huckins
 Assigned Hawaiin Sea Frontier No enemy action

                           MTB RON 27
 Commissioned 23,July 1943           CDR Clinton McKellar Jr.
 Decommissioned 19,October 1945      LCDR Henry S. Taylor USNR
 PT 356-361,372-377
 South and Southwest Pacific

                           MTB RON 28
 Commissioned 30,August 1943         LCDR G.A. Matteson Jr USNR
 Decommissioned 21,October 1945      LT D.M. Craig USNR
 PT 546-551,378-383
 Southwest Pacific

                           MTB RON 29
 Commissioned 22,October 1943        CDR S. Stephen Daunis
 Decommissioned 23,November 1944
 PT 552-563
 Assigned to Mediterranean, based at Calvi, Corsica and Leghorn,Italy

                           MTB RON 30
 Commissioned 15,February 1944       LCDR Robert L. Searless USNR
 Decommissioned 15,November 1945     LCDR Lawrence F. Jones USNR
 PT 450-461
 Assigned to English Channel area, during June 1944 till June 1945
 reassigned to states for reconditioning and assigned to Pacific.
 War ended before shipment to Pacific. RON stayed in New York.

                           MTB RON 31
 Commissioned 5,April 1944           LT John M. Searles USNR
 Decommissioned 17,December 1945     LCDR Frank B. Gass USNR
 PT 453-455, 462-473
 Served Pacific, Solomons, Marianas, Okinawa

                           MTB RON 32
 Commissioned 10,June 1944           LCDR Robert C. Wark USNR
 Decommissioned 18,December 1945     LT James E. Coleman USNR
 PT 474-485
 Pacific Fleet Solomons, New Herbrides, Okinawa

                           MTB RON 33
 Commissioned 2,December 1943        LT A. Murray Preston USNR
 Decommissioned 24,October 1945      LCDR Edwin A. DuBose USNR
 PT 137,138,488-497
 Southwest Pacific

                           MTB RON 34
 Commissioned 31,December 1943       LT Allen H. Harris USNR
 Decommissioned 9,March 1945         LT Herbert J. Sherertz USNR
 PT 498-509
 Action in English Channel area June 1944 to October 1944
 prepare boats for shipment to USSR in December 1944

                           MTB RON 35
 Commissioned 15,February 1944       LCDR Richard Davis Jr.
 Decommissioned 10,April 1945        LCDR Arthur N Barnes USNR
 PT 510-521
 Action in English Channel from June 44 to November 44, all boats
 shipped to USSR

                           MTB RON 36
 Commissioned 3,April 1944           LCDR Francis D. Tappan USNR
 Decommissioned 29,October 1945      LT Ralph O. Amsden Jr. USNR
 PT 522-532
 Southwest Pacific

                           MTB RON 37
 Commissioned 5,June 1944            LCDR Clark W. Faulkner USNR
 Decommissioned 7,December 1945      LT James J. Cross Jr. USNR
 PT 533-544
 Assigned Pacific Fleet, Solomons, New Hebrides, Okinawa

                           MTB RON 38
 Commissioned 20,December 1944       LCDR Charles A. Mills Jr. USNR
 Decommissioned 24,October 1945
 PT 565-576
 Southwest Pacific

                           MTB RON 39
 Commissioned 6,March 1945           LT Russell E. Hamachek USNR
 Decommissioned 24,December 1945     LT Charles A. Bernier Jr. USNR
 PT 575-588
 Arrived at Samar, in Philippines in July 1945 and saw no action

                           MTB RON 40
 Commissioned 26,April 1945          LCDR George E. Cox Jr USNR
 Decommissioned 21,December 1945
 PT 589-600
 Arrived in Samar in summer of 1945, saw no action

                           MTB RON 41
 Commissioned 21,June 1945            LCDR Bruce P. Van Buskirk
 Decommissioned 6,February 1945
 PT 600-612
 Was shaking down at Miami when war ended

                           MTB RON 42
 Commissioned 17,September 1945      LCDR James A. Danver USNR
 Decommissioned 8,February 1946
 PT 613-624
 Only squadron (RON) commissioned after the war, was assigned to Pacific
 area but never shipped.

                           MTB RON 43
 Commissioned 12,December 1945       LT Richard C. Morse Jr. USNR
 Decommissioned 16,March
 PT 635-636
 All transferred to USSR Lend-Lease April 1945

                    MTB RON 44   MTB RON 45
 PT 761-772 RON 44 and PT 783-784 RON 45
 Both squadrons never placed in commission