Kennedy's World War II patrol boat, PT-109, a panel of naval historians said Wednesday. The National Geographic Society commissioned an expedition in May to search for the wreck, led by Robert ...

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 ...

Nov. 10, 2003, 8:20 AM EST / Source: msnbc.com 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 ...

Kennedy’s famed World War II torpedo boat PT 109. Ballard, famous for tracing the ocean liner Titanic’s remains as well as other historical shipwrecks, located what he believed was the PT boat ...

On August 2, 1943, while patrolling the Solomon Islands, Lieutenant Kennedy’s patrol torpedo boat PT-109 was struck by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. The much larger vessel sliced Kennedy's ...

Dr. Robert Ballard, who discovered the Titanic, the Bismarck, and dozens of other lost ships, on Wednesday announced his latest find: PT 109, John F. Kennedy’s wartime boat, which a Japanese ...

They were beautiful, fast and glamorous -- a rare opportunity for a young reserve officer like John F. Kennedy to earn a coveted command at sea. But should a PT boat ever be caught with idling ...

Here you can watch the appraisal that never aired, and see close-ups of the flag. Unaired "PT-109" Flag Appraisal from New Orleans Roadshow In the debut episode of the DETOURS podcast — "The ...