Bill Battle
Bill Battle was the son of a governor of Virginia and a Navy colleague of JFK. He volunteered for Kennedy’s primary contest in West Virginia…
Bryant Larson
Bryant Larson was the skipper of PT109 immediately before command was given to JFK. Larson, along with executive officer Lennie Thom and the crew, had…
Clark Faulkner
JFK served under Clark Faulkner at the PT shakedown unit in Miami that Jack was assigned to in the winter and spring of 1944. He…
David Levy
David Levy was skipper of the PT 48 and served alongside Jack Kennedy in the Solomons. Levy was the comrade who get JFK into trouble…
Gene
Gene Foncannon was a US navy officer who bunked with JFK in the Solomons. Several weeks into his stay after reporting for duty JFK suggested…
George Ross
George Ross survived the PT 109 sinking and was later named by JFK to a position on the President’s Committee on Juvenile Deliquency and Youth…
Gerald Zinser
Gerald Zinser was a crewman on PT 109 and survived the six day ordeal after the Japanese destroyer cut the boat in half. After the…
Gerard Emil Zinser
Gerard Emil Zinser worked as a motor machinist mate on PT 109. As many Illinois boys had done before him, he joined the Navy in…
Jim Reed
Jim Reed met JFK on the troop transport to the Pacific war theatre. Birthed in the cabin next to Jack’s, they became fast friends. “We…
John Klee
John Klee served under JFK in the south Pacific for about a week on PT 59. He told another biographer: He got along well with…
John Maguire
John Maguire served as crewman under JFK on PT 109. As president, Kennedy appointed him United States Marshall for the southern district of Florida. [127,…
Maurice Kowal
Maurice Kowal served under Kennedy as a crewman on the PT 109, although he had left the boat before it was rammed by the Japanese…
Phil Potter
Phil Potter was the skipper of PT 169. His boat had become detached from the second group of PTs who went on on patrol with…
Raymond L. Starkey
Torpedoman Second Class Raymond L. Starkey served under JFK on PT 109 and was on the boat when it was struck by the Japanese destroyer….
William C. Battle
William C. Battle was a tent mate of JFK on Tulagi and fellow commanding officer of a PT boat. In 1962, JFK appointed him U.S….