Two U.S. Navy PT boat captains awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II were both cases in point: Lt. Cmdr. John Bulkeley ...

In the spirit of it all, let’s recall the story of the real PT-109, the little torpedo boat whose star-crossed fate made a war hero out of JFK, and eventually helped propel him into the White ...

To help him escape, the Navy relied on a small but heavily armed class of ships: the PT boat. Manufacturing of bitumen-lined water bottles The Art of Sausage Making The Corning Museum of Glass ...

The deck of the PT-305 as the boat sits in retirement in The National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Doug Stewart photo A quarter of a century ago, The National World War II Museum opened in New ...

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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 a starless night in August 1943, a Japanese destroyer split Kennedy's PT-109 boat in half. The crew had been left for dead, but the future president felt it was his duty to get his men to ...

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