On a moonless night in the summer of 1943, a Japanese destroyer tore through a U.S. Navy patrol-torpedo boat guarding the waters around the Solomon Islands. The boat was PT-109, skippered by a young ...

John F. Kennedy’s encounter with a Japanese destroyer on this day in 1943 may be the most famous small-craft engagement in the annals of U.S. naval history. Somewhat later, when asked to recount how ...

As a World War II warship, PT-109 was not destined to be much remembered. It was sunk ingloriously in a misbegotten South Pacific mission in which nothing went right and nary a blow was struck at the ...

On Nov. 16, Sunday, at 9 p.m. ET, MSNBC and National Geographic EXPLORER present “The Search for Kennedy’s PT 109,” the exclusive behind-the-scenes story of National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence ...

Years before he became the 35th President of the United States, John F Kennedy showed great courage and leadership as the commander of a patrol boat in WWII. His heroic actions earned him service ...

U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg, swam the Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the rescue of her father’s ...

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

Caroline Kennedy, the US' Ambassador to Australia and the last living child of former President John F. Kennedy, honored her father's famous rescue during World War II. The ambassador's office ...

Central Ohio attorney John Kulewicz swims to stay in shape. He also competes in swim competitions worldwide. He and some swimming buddies had an idea. This summer marked 75 years since the PT 109, a ...

Naval experts on Wednesday confirmed wreckage found recently in the South Pacific by noted undersea explorer Robert Ballard must be that of John F. Kennedy’s famed World War II torpedo boat PT 109.