Under the cover of darkness on Aug. 7, 1943, Lt. William Liebenow skippered his patrol torpedo boat into enemy waters in the South Pacific. His mission was to rescue the sailors of PT-109 who had ...

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 ...

It was a coconut that sent William F. Liebenow on a mission to rescue the man who would become president. A tenacious Navy commander in World War II, Liebenow’s acts of heroism stretched from the ...

There may be an important part of World War II history at the bottom of the Harlem River. William Doyle, author of the John F. Kennedy biography “PT 109” (William Morrow), believes with “99.99 percent ...