In the early hours of Aug. 2, 1943, during an engagement with Japanese navy destroyers, PT 109 was rammed and sunk in the Blackett Strait near Gizo Island, part of the Solomons/New Georgia Island ...

PT 109 provides an opportunity to tell JFK’s personal ... “There’s only one PT boat sunk in this area… and this matches a PT boat all the way down the line. The torpedo matches.

As a World War II warship, PT-109 was not destined to be much remembered. It was sunk ingloriously in a misbegotten South Pacific mission in which nothing went right and nary a blow was struck at ...

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 ...

Kennedy's famous World War II torpedo boat, PT-109, sunk off the Solomon Islands in 1943. Ballard, a faculty member at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography, is featured ...

PT-109. The story of his heroism and leadership after the boat was sunk by a Japanese destroyer Aug. 1, 1943 helped lay the foundation for his political career. Elco closed its facility in Bayonne ...

Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He and the survivors had to make ...

Kennedy’s service on the PT-59 was overshadowed by his adventures on the PT-109, which sunk in 1943 after being rammed by a Japanese destroyer in shark-infested waters in the Pacific.

A boat believed to be the PT-59, a Navy vessel Kennedy commanded after the PT-109 was sunk, has been mired in the muck off Manhattan for decades. By Corey Kilgannon For decades, countless ...