Lt. Arthur Preston and his PT boat crews did whatever it took to save a downed Navy airman in the South Pacific.

she was given the same dark green paint scheme used by her fellow PT boats in the Western Pacific theater during World War II. PT-109 arrived in the Solomon Islands in late 1942 and was assigned ...

He is one of only two PT boat crewmen awarded his country’s highest honor during WWII. Preston retired from the Navy as a commander in 1953 and worked as a banker thereafter, before his death on ...