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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ballard tells how Kennedy swam nearly two miles to safety and heroically saved his crew, describes the Solomon Islands themselves ("there is no patch of ... introduction to PT 109's story and ...

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 ...

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 ...