John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK). I recently figured that this was as good a time as any to rewatch the movie about JFK’s World War II U.S. Navy (USN) service, “PT-109,” wherein the twenty-six ...

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 ...

In April 1954, John Fitzgerald Kennedy addressed his fellow senators ... As commander of motor torpedo boat PT 109, he had kept his men safe behind enemy lines after the boat was rammed and ...