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The Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center is a former United States Navy training facility in Melville, Rhode Island, which instructed naval personnel in the operation of PT boats. It was closed after World War II ended.

United States Navy Naval warfare branch of the United States Armed Forces

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PT boat type of fast attack craft

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