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Bill Hall, a volunteer restoration specialist for the National WWII Museum, looks over the dilapidated engine of 1940's era fire truck, in their warehouse in New Orleans, Wednesday, March 7, 2018. The National World War II Museum is taking apart the recently acquired fire engine, made for the military home front in 1943, and expects to have it rolling and ready for display in two or three years. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

National WW2 Museum renovating 1943 home front fire truck

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press

CORRECTS BOAT NUMBER TO 305, NOT 105 - Crew members Bob Wade, left, and Dale Casey, raise an American flag during a media ride Thursday, March 16, 2017, on the PT 305 that was restored by the National WWII Museum, on Lake Pontchartrain, where she was originally tested by Higgins Industries more than 70 years ago, in New Orleans. The U.S. Navy PT boat that sank three vessels and saw action in Europe in World War II is back in New Orleans where it was built, what historians describe as the nation's only fully restored combat ship of that type from the era. Its return to water is the culmination of a 10-year restoration project by the museum. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

PT boat from WW2 rides old test course ‘like a thoroughbred’

By JANET MCCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press