JFK wound up in PT boats because he was banging a Danish woman correspondent Hoover believed was a Nazi agent. So JFK was transferred from Naval Intelligence [at the behest of Daddy] to the PT boat school down in the Carolinas. Miss Copenhagen followed, the affair resumed and JFK wound up in the Pacific on [surprise] a PT boat.
His first accomplishment as a skipper [which should have been his last], was to destroy a dock. The incident that made him famous started out with the PT 109 as part of a picket line, with ourders to keep both engines idling and one [or two, I forget which] lookouts. Kennedy only had one engine on, and no lookout, which explains how a slower Japanese destroyer could cut his boat in half.
And yes, his actions after the collision were heroic. But if he’d done his job, they wouldn’t have been necessary, and no injury or loss of life probably wouldn’t have taken place.
You could have cut all the rest of that stuff and just agreed that JFK was a genuine hero in WWII, but I guess that you thought we needed the National Enquirer version of the story.
Your post #33 was a dose of sanity on this thread.
Why we have to name a second aircraft carrier after an adulterous womanizer who had to have vote fraus make him a President is beyond me.
By the time the carrier is finished, maybe we can name after someone more deserving of the honor.
I suggest that you read the “Kennedys At War”, I forget the author. JFK was a brave man, as was his brother Joe.
What was your service branch?