WASHINGTON (CNN) --The wreckage of a navy vessel found off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific is probably John F. Kennedy's World War II patrol boat, PT-109, a panel of naval historians said ...
“I owe it to my skipper to tell about the PT-109. I owe it to his memory.” It was in 1983 when I first met Patrick McMahon, whom John F. Kennedy had rescued on the PT-109 during World War II. He was a ...
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JFK And PT-109: Leadership Under Fire
Years before he became the 35th President of the United States, John F Kennedy showed great courage and leadership as the commander of a patrol boat in WWII. His heroic actions earned him service ...
On Nov. 16, Sunday, at 9 p.m. ET, MSNBC and National Geographic EXPLORER present “The Search for Kennedy’s PT 109,” the exclusive behind-the-scenes story of National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence ...
John F. Kennedy’s encounter with a Japanese destroyer on this day in 1943 may be the most famous small-craft engagement in the annals of U.S. naval history. Somewhat later, when asked to recount how ...
Eroni Kumana, a Solomon Islander who was credited with helping to save the lives of then-Navy Lt. John F. Kennedy and his PT-109 crew members after their boat was destroyed by a Japanese warship ...
John F. Kennedy, with cane in the Pacific, 1943, would later downplay his PT-109 role: "It was involuntary," he quipped. "They sank my boat." Ted Robinson John F. Kennedy—elected 50 years ago this ...
An analysis by Navy experts appears to confirm oceanographer Robert Ballard’s contention that he has discovered a section of John F. Kennedy’s PT 109. A team of experts from the Department of the Navy ...
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