Alvin Peyton Cluster
Alvin Peyton Cluster was the young commander of Squadron Two and was Kennedt’s superior for much of his stay in the Solomons. A graduate of…
Andrew Kirksey
Torpedoman Second Class Andrew Jackson Kirksey joined the PT 109 crew. He often shared pictures and told stories about his son and stepson to JFK, who…
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…
Charles Albert Harris
Charles Harris, aged 25, joined the PT 109 crew the day that Kennedy assumed command. [Blair, p. ??]
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…
David Levy
David Levy commanded PT 59 alongside JFK in the Solomons. After the war, he worked as an attorney in Rochester, New York. Levy was following…
Edmund T. Drewitch
Edmund T. Drewitch, age 30, was the sixth man on the crew for PT 109 that Kennedy was assembling. He joined the crew on the…
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…
Joe Kernell
Joe Kernell was a PT officer in the Solomons that Jack turned to for advice and guidance as he assumed command of PT 109.
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,…
Lennie Thom
Lennie Thom was the executive officer of PT 109 when it was sunk the Japanese troop transport ship the Amagiri. Before his service in the…
Leon E. Drawdy
Leon E. Drawdy, age 30, was one of Kennedy’s original crew on PT 109, joining the boat the day that Jack assumed command. [Blair, p….
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…