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 ...

The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes sank ...

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, a ...

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 August 1942, during the American island-hopping campaign in the Pacific theater, 15 motor torpedo boats were sent to intercept a Japanese destroyer convoy generally referred to as the Tokyo Express ...

Dr. Robert Ballard, who discovered the Titanic, the Bismarck and dozens of other lost ships, announced his latest find Wednesday: PT 109, John F. Kennedy's wartime boat, which a Japanese destroyer ...

SYDNEY, Australia — Shipwreck hunter Robert Ballard said Wednesday that he has found the World War II patrol boat commanded by John F. Kennedy in the Pacific Ocean off the Solomon Islands. The remains ...

An analysis by Navy experts appears to confirm oceanographer Robert Ballard’s contention that he has discovered a section of John F. Kennedy’s PT 109. A team of experts from the Department of the Navy ...

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 ...