When John F Kennedy Lost His Ship

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  @Yarnhub · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @AdVapidKudos · 2 years ago

  They neglected to mention that JFK actually kept that coconut with the distress message on his desk in the White House.

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  @TechLeafRanger · 2 years ago (edited)

  Some more points of interest. JFK&apos;s crew &apos;acquired&apos; a 37mm Anti-tank cannon to mount on their boat. They found it to be effective enough to replace it with the 37mm autocannon from an Aircobra fighter. Which THAT proved so effective it became standard armament for every PT boat afterwards.

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  @MaidenPasadena · 2 years ago

  In March 2015, in Tokyo, the &quot;JFK: His life and legacy&quot; exhibition was held, where Caroline Kennedy, JFK&apos;s daughter, and Kazuko Hanami, wife of the captain of the destroyer that collided with the boat, met and confirmed the partnership between Japan and the U.S. <br>At the exhibition, a letter sent by JFK to Captain Hanami in 1953 and a photograph of him with a handwritten message &quot;To Captain Hanami, late enemy and present friend&quot; were displayed. The two had been corresponding, and letters of encouragement were sent from Captain Hanami and former crew members of the destroyer when JFK ran for president. This was featured in the official magazine &quot;American View&quot; of the U.S. Embassy in Japan.

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  @chawboy32 · 2 years ago

  Cool thing is that Kennedy had that coconut on his desk when he was president as a reminder

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  @ShubhayooBanerjee · 2 years ago

  It is 1 am and my parents are telling me to go to bed BUT I HAVE MY PRIORITIES SET.

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  @nickatkinson5692 · 2 years ago

  The rescue of JFK and crew was entirly down to one Australian Coastwatcher Reg Evans and two Solomon Islander men, their job was &nbsp;to operate behind Japanese lines and report on enemy troop and naval movements by SW &nbsp;radio. He watched the sinking at night and sent two of his &nbsp;Solomon Islander men to investigate, they returned with the coconut and Reg passed the co ordinates on. &nbsp;Reg survived the war, so JFK entertained and thanked Reg personaly at the White House. <br><br>Coastwatchers were spread across the Pacific and operated in secret until after the war. &nbsp;<br><br>A total &nbsp;of 33 Australian and 22 Islander people Coastwatchers were killed by the Japanese.<br><br>US Admiral of the Fleet, William F. Halsey, World War II <br>&quot;The Coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal, and Guadalcanal saved the South Pacific&quot;.

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  @AnonAnon-wt3pk · 2 years ago

  JFK to the islanders, &quot;Ask not what the shipwrecked crew can do for you but what you can do for the shipwrecked crew.&quot;

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  @pokefan-ix7sh · 2 years ago

  information from wikipedia:<br><br><br>PT-109 was an 80-foot Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president, in the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific theater during World War II. Kennedy&apos;s actions in saving his surviving crew after PT-109 was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer earned him several commendations and made him a war hero. Back problems stemming from the incident required months of hospitalization at Chelsea Naval Hospital and plagued him the rest of his life. Kennedy&apos;s postwar campaigns for elected office referred often to his service on PT-109.

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  @whiskey_tango_foxtrot__ · 2 years ago

  &quot;Ask not what your country can do for you...but what you can do for your country!&quot; <br>How US Presidents used to speak.

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  @ColinFreeman-kh9us · 2 years ago

  The Solomon Islander that found Kennedy named his son after him and then his son did the same thing. I seen an interview with them both on a die wreck channel on YT. True story

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  @frankydman · 2 years ago

  During JFK’s inauguration there was a parade that included a PT boat painted to look like PT 109; many of the surviving crew “manned the boat” as part of the celebration

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