AAF Air Sea Rescue film Approximately five-and-a-half-minute film of a B-17 losing engines having to ditch, and a A-24 spotting the downed crew in a raft. At about four minutes into the film P-429 comes to save the crew. The skipper of the 85' rescue boat is the best dressed I've seen; almost looks British.

This is old, silent footage and not of the best quality, but is worth the 11 minutes just to see how they handle in heavy seas. Naval Photographic Center film #15967. National Archives description "Cut 1) MS 85' boat underway on high seas. Cut 2) LS Same as above; Pan, lead boat plows through high seas, throws spray high in air; it is followed by second boat in column; spray flies over boats. Cut 3) LS 85' army boats undergo tests in rough seas; they move toward camera at high speed. Cut 4) MS Army boat lying to. Cut 5) MS Beat underway at high speed; bow of boat high as it cuts through water. Cut 6) MS Boat undergoing tests in rough weather

This is a YouTube video presenting a history of Beach Jumper and some OSS operations primarily from WWII and Korea. it liberally mixes in PT boats and British boats in the video without making clear which you are seeing at the moment

An advertising video produced for or by Hall-Scott promoting their engines in multiple applications. There is video of crash boats at speed at about the 4 minute mark. The video is of poor quality and probably dates from shortly after World War II.

While this video refers to the Packard 4M-2500 as the PT boat engine, the same engine was the only engine used in the 85 ft. air-sea rescue boats and in the 16 model #168 boats of 63 ft. The video starts with coverage of aero engines Packard developed in WWI and a comparison the to Rolls Merlin engine. The first mention of the 1A-2500 comes at about 4:30 into the video and the 4M-2500 at about 8 minutes into the video. This is a very good quality video, far superior to the Hall-Scott video.

This is an ELCO film on the construction of PT Boats, but the basic construction techniques were the same, especially the hull construction. While every crash boat builder may not have used the inverted hull method, several certainly did.

William Disanza was in the Merchant Marine at the start of WWII and got out to join the Army because he did not like the ocean. He was assigned to crash boat training, then to the OSS and ended up in the China Burma India Theater running a guerrilla group. This will link you to an Oral History of the World War II Museum in New Orleans, LA.