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During World War II, Elco formed the Elco Naval Division in Bayonne, New Jersey. Nearly 400 Elco PT boats were produced for the U.S. Navy. After experimentation, the first PT boat built in any quantity was the 73-foot type. Later 77-foot and 80-foot types were built. More 80-foot Elco boats were built than any other type of US motor torpedo ...
Elco Ltd. is an international conglomerate holding company headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company was founded in 1949 by Alexander Salkind, and has been managed since its establishment by three generations of the Salkind family.
Motor Launch ML-286 is a First World War submarine chaser built by Elco, that saw action with Royal Navy.It is also listed as one of the Little Ships that were used in the 1940, Dunkirk evacuation.
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Elco Holdings, an Israeli industrial group Electric Launch Company , manufacturer of electric boats and yachts, and (during World War II) PT boats and air rescue craft, today Elco Motor Yachts Elco, a type of PT boat designed by the Electric Launch Company and built during World War II
Factors that contributed to the incident included an influx of new pilots who lacked experience in recognizing PT boats, poor communications between the planes and PT boats, and the fact that the incident occurred in an area of the Pacific which was the "line of demarcation" between Nimitz and MacArthur's Pacific commands, which meant that coordination of reports between the two commands did ...