Workers prepare to move PT-305 from the restoration center at the National World War II Museum to the Mississippi River in New Orleans. Photo by Matthew Hinton/The American Legion
The sun rises on the Crescent City Connection Bridge and Andrew Higgins Blvd. in New Orleans as workers prepare to move PT-305, the world’s only operational World War II combat PT boat, to the Mississippi River. Photo by Matthew Hinton/The American Legion
An WWII-era photo served as a guide to repainting the lettering on PT-305, originally built by Higgins Industries in New Orleans and later named the USS Sudden Jerk. Photo by Matthew Hinton/The American Legion
Workers move PT-305 along the streets of New Orleans on the seven-block journey from the restoration center at the National World War II Museum to a barge on the Mississippi River. Photo by Matthew Hinton/The American Legion
Brock Daigle with Berard Transportation hands out beads like a Mardi Gras parade as a crawler moves PT-305 along the streets of New Orleans from the restoration center at the National World War II Museum to the Mississippi River. Photo by Matthew Hinton/The American Legion
People watch as workers move PT-305 along the streets of New Orleans from the National World War II Museum to the Mississippi River. Photo by Matthew Hinton/The American Legion
Workers move PT-305 on a computer-controlled heavy load transporter through the streets of New Orleans from the National World War II Museum to the Mississippi River. Photo by Matthew Hinton/The American Legion
PT-305 arrives at the Mississippi River where she will be lifted onto a barge in the Mississippi River. Photo by Matthew Hinton/The American Legion
PT-305 arrives at the Mississippi River and is lifted onto a barge in the Mississippi River. Photo by Matthew Hinton/The American Legion
From left, Ed Daroca, Harold Buchler, Jr., Jim Letten, and restoration manager George Benedetto, hug and celebrate the successful move of PT-305 onto a barge in the Mississippi at the Port of New Orleans. The four were part of a group who spent 110,000 volunteer hours over the past decade working on the vessel at the restoration center at the National World War II Museum. Photo by Matthew Hinton/The American Legion
Volunteer captain George Van Zandt lights up a cigar after helping put PT-305 onto the Mississippi River at the Port of New Orleans. Photo by Matthew Hinton/The American Legion
The PT-305 moves atop a barge along the Mississippi River past St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter in New Orleans. The USS Sudden Jerk will make her way through the locks toward a special boathouse on Lake Pontchartrain, near her 1943 birthplace. Photo by Matthew Hinton/The American Legion