“he was the only PT boat skipper to get run over by an enemy ship.”
And for that he should have been court marshaled, better yet keel-hauled. How does a high speed PT boat get cut in half by a Japanese cruiser?
Maybe JFK was passed out drunk?
It was my understanding that the boat was anchored at night. I think they were partying but am not sure. Probably no one on watch but even if the destroyer was seen there may not have been time to get out of the way. Seemed like a freak accident with incompetence thrown in.
Kennedy screwed up by not posting a man on watch. Lucky to escape punishment before a naval board of inquiry when he went back to the States.