![]() Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Bostonįor nine hours they clung in the dark to the remains of the patrol boat hoping for rescue while they drifted south in the Blackett Strait. Kennedy in the cockpit of WWII motor torpedo boat PT-109. Their base at Rendova was 65 kilometres away. Two had died, one was badly burned and another injured. The fuel tank exploded in the collision and with burning fuel floating in the sea, Kennedy rounded up his men. It was August 1943 and the young patrol boat skipper, Lieutenant Jack Kennedy, had survived, with 10 of his crew, a terrifying ordeal when their patrol boat was rammed and sliced in two by a Japanese destroyer in the Solomon Islands. “Come up to my tent and have a cup of tea,” the New Zealand lieutenant told the bedraggled shipwreck survivor who clambered out of a dugout canoe, exhausted and with badly infected feet from coral cuts. Or did he? Jane Phare recounts the story. Kennedy and his desperate, shipwrecked crew off a remote island in the Solomons during World War II. Kennedy with his then-fiancee Jackie Bouvier in Massachusetts in 1953, 10 years after Kennedy and his crew were rescued after being shipwrecked in the Solomon Islands.Įighty years ago a Kiwi soldier by the name of Wincote helped rescue former US President John F. ![]()
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