For decades, countless motorists and boaters have passed North Cove, a small recess along the Manhattan side of the Harlem River, unaware that a piece of presidential history may well have been ...

Read the original article on Coffee or Die Magazine. Follow Coffee or Die on Instagram. During World War II, 26-year-old John F. Kennedy was nearly killed in action when a Japanese destroyer collided ...

In World War II, a Japanese attack sank the PT boat commanded by a young John F. Kennedy. We recount the harrowing aftermath, Kennedy’s leadership in rescuing his crew, and how this episode became a ...

A boat believed to be the PT-59, a Navy vessel Kennedy commanded after the PT-109 was sunk, has been mired in the muck off Manhattan for decades. By Corey Kilgannon For decades, countless motorists ...

An experienced South Pacific Sea Dog by the name of Quinton McHale, was commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander into the U.S. Navy Reserve at the start of World War II. McHale was made the Skipper of ...

The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21, 1944. (Navy ...

FALL RIVER — Not everyone knows that former president John F. Kennedy commanded not one but two PT boats during World War II. It’s widely known that he was badly injured and personally saved a crew ...