Charles Harris
Charles Harris was a Gunner’s Mate on PT 109, who survived the sinking when the boat was cut in two by a Japanese destroyer. He…
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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…
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…
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….
Charles Albert Harris
Charles Harris, aged 25, joined the PT 109 crew the day that Kennedy assumed command. [Blair, p. ??]
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Money
JFK was in Chelsea Naval Hospital and wrote a letter directing that money from the royalties of the condensed Readers Digest version of his PT…
Small Hospital Room
JFK was in a small hospital room and was visited by journalist and friend John Hersey, who was preparing an article on the PT 109…
Short Note
JFK wrote a short note to his parents after spending a week recuperating from the PT 109 sinking. Dear Folks; This is just a short…
August 8, 1943
August 8, 1943 JFK and his crew that survived the sinking of PT 109 by a Japanese destroyer are rescued.
August 1, 1943
JFK is out on patrol on this patrol-torpedo boat 109 when it is hit by a Japanese destroyer and sunk. Two men of his crew…
August 1, 1943 (Sunday)
On this most fateful of days in JFK’s life, in the morning he and his crew finished securely the antitank gun to the front of…