JFK’s heroic actions earned him the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, as well as a Purple Heart. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's newly-confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS ...

and just maybe the movie "PT-109" that was made about his time in the Navy during World War II. The "PT" stands for Patrol Torpedo (motor torpedo boats or MTBs) and were initially built as ...

boat during World War II. Getty Images US Navy Lt. John F. Kennedy commanded PT-109 in the Solomon Islands during World War II when his boat was struck by a Japanese destroyer on this day in ...

U.S Navy Lt. John F. Kennedy commanded PT-109 in the Solomon Islands during World War II when his boat was struck by a Japanese destroyer on this day in history, Aug. 2, 1943. Kennedy's PT-109 ...

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 ...

What could be the world's largest collection of World War II-era PT boats — made famous in the popular imagination by John F. Kennedy's exploits in PT-109 — rests ashore at a marina in ...

Kennedy in the drama “Mayday 109,” based on the 1943 sinking of Kennedy’s PT boat during World War II. The project has been in development since 2015, when Beau Flynn and Basil Iwanyk ...

The initials "PT" stood for Patrol Torpedo, and during World War II, the United States ... destroyer Amagiri sliced into PT 109, leaving behind a sinking boat and 13 men in the water of Blackett ...