Why not use the highly maneuverable PT-109? Oh, that’s right. A physically-unfit JFK allowed PT-109 to be run over by a Japanese destroyer.
In Lt. (jg) Kennedy’s defense, he was operating at night, without radar, in the Slot.
Stuff happens in war.
Today is the 53rd anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination.
George Patton:
Then there's one thing you men will be able to say when this war is over and you get back home. Thirty years from now when you're sitting by your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks, 'What did you do in the great World War Two?' You won't have to cough and say, 'Well, your granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.' No sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say 'Son, your granddaddy rode with the great Third Army and a son-of-a-goddamned-bitch named George Patton!'
JFK didn't shovel shit in Louisiana. He went into harm's way on behalf of his country.