Eighty years ago, then-US Navy lieutenant and future US President John F. Kennedy heroically swam between Pacific islands to help save the crew of his torpedo boat that had been destroyed by a Japanese warship during World War II.
Kennedy’s heroism as the commander of PT-109 helped set the foundation for a military and leadership record that would help get him elected the United States’ 35th president in 1960.
JFK’s PT-109 was struck by a Japanese Imperial Navy destroyer in the early morning darkness of August 1, 1943. The wooden-hulled small boat was ripped open by the Japanese ship and capsized. Kennedy gathered his surviving crew – 11 of the 13 aboard PT-109 – and set them out on a 3.5-mile swim to tiny Plum Pudding Island, which is now named after him.
In a speech on Kennedy Island on Tuesday, the late president’s daughter saluted her father as well as Gasa and Kumana, whose families were in attendance.
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