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 ...

I recently figured that this was as good a time as any to rewatch the movie about JFK’s World War II U.S. Navy (USN) service, “PT-109,” wherein the twenty-six-year-old Jack Kennedy was ...

boat during World War II. Getty Images US 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 ...

Years before he became the 35th President of the United States, John F Kennedy showed great courage and leadership as the commander of a patrol boat in WWII ... torpedo boat PT-109 was struck ...

After sitting in Bayonne’s Rutkowski Park since 2006, a crane that helped launch vessels built for the U.S. Navy during World War II is on its ... the Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats that were built ...

Kennedy (JFK) and just maybe the movie "PT-109" that was made about his time in the Navy during World War II. The "PT" stands for Patrol Torpedo (motor torpedo boats or MTBs) and were ...

Kennedy's boat was PT-109, a patrol torpedo boat operating in the Solomon Islands. PT boats were designed to be small, fast and cheap to build while packing a punch with Mark-8 torpedoes and ...

Kennedy’s World War II heroism did not consist of defying the odds to turn defeat into victory. Nothing like that happened on the summer night in 1943 that PT-109, the now-famous boat Kennedy ...