John F Kennedy’s actions as commander of PT-109 were a formative chapter in his life that shaped his values and leadership. The courage, resilience, and sense of duty he demonstrated in the ...

Kennedy commanded PT-109 in the Solomon Islands during World ... provided a strong foundation for his appeal as a leader," the JFK Presidential Library and Museum states in its account of the ...

John F. Kennedy, with cane in the Pacific, 1943, would later downplay his PT-109 role: "It was involuntary," he quipped. "They sank my boat." Ted Robinson John F. Kennedy—elected 50 years ago ...

The ambassador's office commemorated 80 years to the day since JFK - then the captain of a PT-109 patrol torpedo boat off the Solomon Islands in World War II - heroically swam his crewmates to ...

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-year-old Jack Kennedy was ...

The wartime ordeal of PT-109, a patrol torpedo boat, added to his reputation as a leader as he vied against Richard Nixon for the White House. “Eighty years ago, President Kennedy swum between ...

Kennedy served as a US Navy lieutenant and commander of a patrol torpedo (PT) boat during World War II ... for his appeal as a leader,” the JFK Presidential Library and Museum states in its ...

Kennedy, at the time a naval lieutenant, commanded one of the PT boats made in Bayonne, PT-109. The story of his heroism and leadership after the boat was sunk by a Japanese destroyer Aug. 1 ...

Kennedy's boat was PT-109, a patrol torpedo boat operating in the Solomon Islands. PT boats were designed to be small, fast and cheap to build while packing a punch with Mark-8 torpedoes and ...

The Oscar-winning actor took on the leading role in this biographical film, which depicted JFK as a Navy officer in command of Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 during the Pacific War of World War II.