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The whole JFK story is fascinating. He was the only PT boat skipper in WWII to manage to have his boat rammed after he stopped his engines during a battle. He was on his way to a court-martial when Pappa Joe used his money and influence to not only stop the court martial, but get Kennedy a medal for losing two men. It's all part of the ghastly Kennedy Legacy of Lies and Cheating.

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The man who commanded the Japanese destroyer that sliced PT-109 in half, Tameichi Hara, amazingly survived World War Two. He went on to write a truly classic memoir entitled, prosaically enough 'Japanese Destroyer Captain'. In this book and numerous interviews he always said he was at a loss to know how PT-109 could have managed to get right were it did.