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77 Years Ago PT 109
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:55 am
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:55 am
This week in 1943, Lieutenant junior grade John Kennedy and the crew of Patrol Torpedo boat 109 were presumed dead after their ship was cut in two by a Japanese destroyer in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.
After surviving several days with limited food and water, and hiding from nearby Japanese, 12 of the 14 members of PT 109 were rescued. Two died in the collision.
JFK received the Navy and Marine Corps medal for heroism and the Purple Heart.
Wiki
After surviving several days with limited food and water, and hiding from nearby Japanese, 12 of the 14 members of PT 109 were rescued. Two died in the collision.
JFK received the Navy and Marine Corps medal for heroism and the Purple Heart.
Wiki
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:56 am to cypresstiger
Loved reading that book when I was a kid.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:57 am to cypresstiger
no matter what you thought of his politics, he was a true american
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:05 am to ksayetiger
No doubt. The guy lived with severe medical conditions his entire life as well.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:23 am to fightin tigers
Posted on 8/5/20 at 10:03 am to Slingscode
quote:. Me too. Now you can see all of those islands and channels on Google Maps Satellite view. Interesting.
Loved reading that book when I was a kid.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 10:24 am to cypresstiger
His older brother, Joe Kennedy, Jr., was the one originally groomed to be president. He had been an antisubmarine pilot and transferred to a secret project in England developing a system for remotely controlled flying bombs. They took worn out B17's and B24's and loaded them with explosives. The pilot would take off, reach cruising altitude, point it in the general direction of the target, and bail out, whereupon another plane would guide it to the target by radio. Not surprisingly, several pilots were killed in this endeavor, including Kennedy, when his plane exploded in midair. The project never achieved any notable successes.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 10:26 am to Slingscode
quote:
scode
Loved reading that book when I was a kid.
The first movie I ever saw in a theater was PT109.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 10:30 am to cypresstiger
Kennedy should have been court-martial but because of daddy was awarded. Dude was idleing his boat in a war zone and was said to be drunk
Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:24 am to cypresstiger
The last Democrat
Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:28 am to Slingscode
If you still enjoy reading WW2 books, read Herman Wouk's Winds of War & War and Remembrance. They're fiction but rides a realistic timeline. Remembrance is a 1,000 page book and it was worth every minute it took to read it.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:32 am to geauxtigers87
This is so wrong geauxtigers. Read the wiki or any legit source.
Nobody pilots a boat, leads his men in hostile waters at 2:00 am, then swims for miles towing His most injured man behind him while drunk
His crewmates had nothing but praise for his actions. In B4, “His daddy paid them to stay quiet”
Nobody pilots a boat, leads his men in hostile waters at 2:00 am, then swims for miles towing His most injured man behind him while drunk
His crewmates had nothing but praise for his actions. In B4, “His daddy paid them to stay quiet”
Posted on 8/5/20 at 1:07 pm to cypresstiger
The Medical Ordeals of JFK
Other than JFK's back problems, I had no idea that he had so many medical issues throughout his life.
Other than JFK's back problems, I had no idea that he had so many medical issues throughout his life.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 1:23 pm to TheOtherSide
Built down the street from here. Elco Narina
Monument to it in the park here.
Monument to it in the park here.
This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 8/5/20 at 1:36 pm to TheOtherSide
quote:
"Yesterday I went through the most harassing experience of my life," Jack wrote. "[A doctor] stuck an iron tube 12 inches long and 1 inch in diameter up my arse ... My poor bedraggled rectum is looking at me very reproachfully these days ...
Posted on 8/6/20 at 8:28 am to Gee Grenouille
quote:
If you still enjoy reading WW2 books, read Herman Wouk's Winds of War & War and Remembrance. They're fiction but rides a realistic timeline. Remembrance is a 1,000 page book and it was worth every minute it took to read it.
Will have to take a look.
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