Crash boats, at the time known as "aircraft rescue boats" or "air-sea rescue boats", were United States high speed boats built to rescue the crew of downed Allied aircraft during World War II. US boat
85-foot crash boat P-520 on the Willamette River in Portland in 2007
AAF / USAF Crash Rescue Boat Association plaque, in Memorial Park at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, in Dayton, Ohio
Army Air Forces 42 foot Rescue Boat
42 foot boats built for US Army, cutaway
Hunt Marine Service and Hunt Boat Company was a wooden shipbuilding company in Richmond, California. To support the World War 2 demand for ships Ackerman Boat Company shipyard switched over to militar
42 foot boats built for U.S. Army