PT 109: John F. Kennedy in World War II

By: Robert J. Donovan

In the early morning of August 2, 1943, in Blackett Strait in the Solomon islands, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri rammed and sank an American PT boat, leaving its crew for dead in a sea covered with flaming gasoline. The skipper of the PT boat was a skinny, handsome boyish lieutenant (jg) from Boston named John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Lieutenant Kennedy spent thirty of the next thirty-six hours in the water. Ten other men on PT 109 survived to tell of his cool courage. This accurate, completely authentic story, not only of PT 109 but of all the late President Kennedy's exploits in World War II, is told here as one of the greatest war adventures of all time.

• Format: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B003HHC2BI
• Release Date: January 1962
• Publisher: Fawcett Publications
• Length: 160 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.3" x 7.0"