FLAT ROCK ó Pardon World War II veteran Harlan Nelson if he doesn't join in the excitement over the discovery last week of John F. Kennedy's famed PT-109. Nelson thinks saw he saw the remains of ...

Naval experts on Wednesday confirmed wreckage found recently in the South Pacific by noted undersea explorer Robert Ballard must be that of John F. Kennedy’s famed World War II torpedo boat PT 109.

In early August of 1942, during the American forces' island-hopping campaign in the Pacific theater, a squadron of 15 motor torpedo boats was sent from the island of Rendova into the Blackett Strait ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - It looked like a tube of rusty metal sitting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. But for oceanographer Bob Ballard, and U.S. Navy historians who reviewed his findings, the humble ...