[Leisler]

How about Saint Jack? First combat patrol, in a radar equipped, three gas 12-cylinder Packard powered patrol boat, that is getting radio calls from an other PT boat to beware a bearing down Jap destroyer. However, two of his engines were commmanded off, and his radio/radar man was on the bridge, shooting the breeze with Cap'n Jack. And no one see a hundred foot high, 250 long Jap destroyer, throwing a phosphorescent 12 foot high bow wave. Odd that the Japs looking down on dark water could see a 70 foot PT boat ,low in the water with no wake or bow wave and Cap'n Jacks crew could see the destroyer until it was too late and Old Hyannisport Sailorboy could get his pants up in time. Well, at least Jack made a record, the only American skipper to have his craft rammed and sunk in WWII.

[Leisler]

Oh yeah, I forgot. There was of course an investigation by the Navy of the loss of PT-109. Done by a guy named Byron White, whom Kennedy appointed to the Supreme Court in 1961.