They were beautiful, fast and glamorous -- a rare opportunity for a young reserve officer like John F. Kennedy to earn a coveted command at sea. But should a PT boat ever be caught with idling engines ...

What could be the world's largest collection of World War II-era PT boats — made famous in the popular imagination by John F. Kennedy's exploits in PT-109 — rests ashore at a marina in Kingston, where ...

FLAT ROCK ó Pardon World War II veteran Harlan Nelson if he doesn't join in the excitement over the discovery last week of John F. Kennedy's famed PT-109. Nelson thinks saw he saw the remains of ...

July 10 -- All through his meteoric political career, John F. Kennedy was often asked to tell the story of what happened to him in the South Pacific in World War II. With some embarrassment and a bit ...

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.

Nels Louison of Deltona is planning a journey back in time to visit the patrol torpedo boat that he served on in the battles of the Mediterranean Sea in World War II. PT-309, affectionately known as ...

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 ...

The crew of PT 109 (COURTESY FILES OF JOHN FLORES) By John W. Flores The young, skinny Navy officer walked along the dock at a South Pacific base and met his new crewmen for the first time, as they ...

Gerald Zinser, 82, last surviving crewman aboard President John F. Kennedy’s doomed PT 109 in the South Pacific in World War II, died Aug. 21 in Orange Park, Fla., of complications from Alzheimer’s ...