A number of unpublished reminiscences and interesting vignettes about the plywood navy have been and are still being written. There needs to be a repository for this material in order that it is preserved for whatever posterity that might be interested. It is hoped that the Lazaret Library will fulfill that need.

     A classic example of an article that has been floating around for several years is "Along with Cousin Sam," a wartime diary by Major J. H. Throsby, the Australian Army Officer assigned to serve as liaison with the PT’s in the Southwest Pacific. 

     The Majors’ tour of duty started at Milne Bay in 1942 with that rag-tag group of PT boats known as Division 17, which were continually under- supplied, and under-fire. It continued throughout the entire New Guinea campaign and included the boat operations in Halmahera/Morotai and ended with those state of the art, rocket -carrying Squadrons that operated in Borneo as the war ended.

     We recently added a report on the ill-advised assignment of PT's to operate in below zero weather in the Aleutian Islands in 1942-43 and a biography of Leonard Thom, the executive officer of the ill-fated PT 109.

     Fred Rosen has written a biography of Ron 15's operations against the Italian and German Navies in the  Mediterranean from January 1943 thru October 1944.  Fred Binder has written the history of Ron 27 in the Southwest Pacific.   They have both been added to the Lazaret Library.