Kennedy's PT-109, a swift but small patrol torpedo boat, was torn apart in the sudden collision in the South Pacific. It exploded and sank in the early morning darkness. Kennedy responded heroically.

Kennedy’s PT-109, a swift but small patrol torpedo boat, was torn apart in the sudden collision in the South Pacific. It exploded and sank in the early morning darkness. Kennedy responded ...

The PT-109 story became legend during the early 1960s ... In the darkness after the collision, Kennedy found Patrick McMahon, severely burned on his face and hands, and hauled him back to a ...

managed to board what was left of PT-109. One had been badly burned and couldn’t swim. Lieutenant Kennedy, who had suffered a ruptured spinal disk in the collision, had swum and towed him to the ...

Ballard, with Michael Hamilton Morgan, has also written a new book, Collision with History: The Search for John F. Kennedy’s PT 109, about the discovery and the history of PT Boats. An ...

leading an expedition this past spring to find PT 109. Using accounts from Kennedy, surviving crew members and navy officers, he re-creates the days before the collision up until the rescue.

On Wednesday, he said he had long dreamed of finding PT 109. This May off the Solomons, Ballard and his team spent several days searching the with sonar. About four miles from the collision site ...

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 ...

The boat was PT-109, skippered by a young lieutenant from Massachusetts named John F. Kennedy. Two of Kennedy’s 13 men were killed in the collision, and others were injured or sickened by the ...

Kennedy quickly positioned PT-109 for a desperate torpedo run, steeling himself and his crew for imminent collision. Musk is done with Washington, but Washington isn’t done with him Shakira ...