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PT-109 was an 80-foot Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president, in the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific theater during World War II.
Commanding the Patrol Torpedo Craft (PT) PT-109, Lieutenant Kennedy and his crew participated in early Allied war campaigns. On August 2, 1943, PT 109 was struck by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and the entire crew was thrown into the Pacific.
Feb 22, 2011 · Patrol Torpedo boat 109 was idling in Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. The 80-foot craft had orders to attack enemy ships on a resupply mission. With virtually no warning, a Japanese destroyer emerged from the black night and smashed into PT-109, slicing it in two and igniting its fuel tanks.
Jul 2, 2021 · Watch the 1963 biographical war film about John F. Kennedy's command of PT-109 in World War II. The film was released five months before Kennedy's assassination and stars Cliff Robertson as the future president.
PT 109 is a 1963 American Technicolor Panavision biographical war film depicting the actions of John F. Kennedy as an officer of the United States Navy in command of Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 in the Pacific theater of World War II.
Nov 18, 2022 · Learn how John F. Kennedy led his crew to safety after his PT boat was hit by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. Read the full story of the famous incident and its aftermath in this article from Prologue magazine.
Cliff Robertson stars as John F. Kennedy, who commanded a PT boat that sank after being rammed by a Japanese destroyer in the South Pacific during WWII. The film dramatizes his heroic leadership and survival of the crew, and his later career in the Navy and politics.
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