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Japanese Couldn't Believe This PT Boat Rammed Their Cruiser — Then Escaped With Zero Casualties

#wwiihistory #pacificwar #navalwarfare On December 12, 1942, Lieutenant Lester Gamble did the impossible: he sank a Japanese flagship destroyer using a 56-ton plywood PT boat. This is the untold story of how an insurance salesman from Oakland changed the course of the Guadalcanal campaign by breaking every rule in the Navy's tactical manual. When the Tokyo Express was bleeding American forces dry in the Solomon Islands, conventional naval warfare had failed catastrophically. PT boats had a 4% success rate against destroyers. But Gamble developed a revolutionary ambush tactic—silent coastal positioning, point-blank torpedo attacks—that increased hit rates to 23% and helped force the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal. Discover how tactical innovation from a junior officer achieved what battleships couldn't, saved 1,800 American lives, and created doctrine still used by modern navies today.