Kennedy’s PT 109. A team of experts from the Department ... The center’s records show that no other PT boat was known to have sunk in that location during the war. There also is no record ...

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Kennedy was the skipper of PT 109, and he and the rest of his crew survived ... an homage to PT boats that had its first show at the Eastern States Exposition in 1998. The exhibit, one of the ...

“PT 109,” an account of Kennedy’s World War ... “It is hard to imagine a White House-sponsored feature film that would show a lot of presidential introspection.” Kennedy himself put ...

Andrew Jackson Kirksey, one of two Navy sailors killed in the sinking of PT Boat 109 during World War II ... which had its first show at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kennedy, at the time a naval lieutenant, commanded one of the PT boats made in Bayonne, PT-109. The story of his heroism and leadership after the boat was sunk by a Japanese destroyer Aug. 1 ...