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Collision with history
the search for John F. Kennedy's PT 109
By Ballard, Robert & Morgan, Michael L.
- ISBN
- 978-0-79226-876-5
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 15, 2002
On a foggy August night in 1943, the future President's PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer in the Solomon Islands. Two of the 13-man crew died in the action, which cut their boat in two. Kennedy acquitted himself well in the aftermath, assisting two injured crewmen, leading the survivors to nearby islands and eventually getting word to rescuers. In the tradition of his explorations of the Titanic and Bismarck wrecks, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
