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 ...
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 ...
The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21, 1944. (Navy ...
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When Japan Sank a Future President
It's August 1943 and future president, John F. Kennedy is the Commander of the US patrol torpedo boat PT-109. He was participating in a hunt for the famous "Tokyo Express" - Japanese destroyers ...
Kennedy's heroic effort as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109, when he rescued crew members after their boat sank during World War II, are part of the Kennedy lore. His journey to that famous ...
Eighty years ago, then-US Navy lieutenant and future US President John F. Kennedy heroically swam between Pacific islands to help save the crew of his torpedo boat that had been destroyed by a ...
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