04-02-2008, 09:38 AM
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| Runnin' With The Big Dogs  | John F. Kennedy's PT 109 Boat Being Shipped (1942 Photo's) Here are very rare photos of President JFK's newly manufactured PT-109, loaded aboard a transport ship ready for shipment to the South Pacific in 1942. As we all know, this PT Boat was later assigned to LT (jg) John F. Kennedy. PT-109 was later rammed, while on patrol with JFK and his crew aboard, cut-in-half by a Japanese destroyer and sunk. Click on the thumb-nail photos, for larger views of these photos. |
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04-02-2008, 11:27 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: TEXAS
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| thats pretty cool thanks |
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04-02-2008, 11:35 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ohio
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| Very neat pics, gotta love jfk that is just such a great story. Just watched a movie about him during the cuban missile crisis the other day. 13 days. Not a bad movie if you are interested in that stuff. |
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04-04-2008, 07:12 PM
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|  Jack was the only 'good' Kennedy. Even with his weakness for the floozies, he was ten times the man of his youngest brother, Teddy the Officeboy. Some think he committed an error in letting his boat get rammed - but in the 'fog of war', who can say? He was on the sharp end, and having a ball on those Mosquito Boats! 
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05-01-2008, 10:47 PM
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| Runnin' With The Big Dogs | John F. Kennedy's PT 109 Boat Being Shipped (1942 Photo's) New Information: PT Boats #109 - #110 - and #111, shown being shipped to the Pacific Threatre, in these photos, were sunk at the following battles... PT 109..In Blackett Straits, Solomons, 02 August 1943 PT 110..Off New Guinea, 26 January 1944 PT 111..Off Guadalcanal I., Solomons, 01 February 1943 |
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09-24-2008, 06:25 PM
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| Were can I find photos of PT 111? My Grandfather was on that boat. |
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09-24-2008, 06:37 PM
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| really amazing photos. How did you come onto these? |
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09-25-2008, 10:25 AM
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| Great pics indeed. I always did love those PT boats. Obviously and for obvious reasons the 109 was the most famous of them all. But, they all had a purpose and they all served that purpose well.
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