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S. Navy history occurred at about 2: 3. August 2, 1. 94. 3, a hot, moonless night in the Pacific. Patrol Torpedo boat 1.

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Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. The 8. 0- foot craft had orders to attack enemy ships on a resupply mission. With virtually no warning, a Japanese destroyer emerged from the black night and smashed into PT- 1. The collision was part of a wild night of blunders by 1.

PT boat action of World War II.” Yet American newspapers and magazines reported the PT- 1. Eleven of the 1. 3 men aboard survived, and their tale, declared the Boston Globe, “was one of the great stories of heroism in this war.” Crew members who were initially ashamed of the accident found themselves depicted as patriots of the first order, their behavior a model of valor. The PT- 1. 09 disaster made JFK a hero. But his fury and grief at the loss of two men sent him on a dangerous quest to get even. The Globe story and others heaped praise on Lieutenant (j. John F. Kennedy, commander of the 1.

Joseph Kennedy. KENNEDY’S SON IS HERO IN PACIFIC AS DESTROYER SPLITS HIS PT BOAT, declared a New York Times headline. It was Kennedy’s presence, of course, that made the collision big news. And it was his father’s media savvy that helped turn an embarrassing disaster into a tale worthy of Homer. Airbrushed from this PR confection was Lieutenant Ken­nedy’s reaction to the accident. The young officer was deeply pained by the death of two of his men in the collision.

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Returning to duty in command of a new breed of PT boat, he lobbied for dangerous assignments and displayed a recklessness that worried fellow officers. Kennedy, they said, was hell- bent on redeeming himself and getting revenge on the Japanese. Kennedy would later embrace the myths of PT- 1. White House. But in his last months in combat, he appeared to be a troubled young man trying to make peace with what happened that dark night in the Solomons.

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At 2. 4, he was already something of a celebrity. With financial backing from his father and the help of New York Times columnist Arthur Krock, he had turned his 1. Harvard thesis into Why England Slept, a bestseller about Britain’s failure to rearm to meet the threat of Hitler. Getting young Jack into the navy took similar finagling.

As one historian put it, Kennedy’s fragile health meant he was not qualified for the Sea Scouts, much less the U. S. Navy. From boyhood, he had suffered from chronic colitis, scarlet fever, and hepatitis.

In 1. 94. 0, the U. S. Army’s Officer Candidate School had rejected him as 4- F, citing ulcers, asthma, and venereal disease.

Most debilitating, doctors wrote, was his birth defect—an unstable and often painful back. When Jack signed up for the navy, his father pulled strings to ensure his poor health did not derail him. Captain Alan Goodrich Kirk, head of the Office of Naval Intelligence, had been the naval attaché in London before the war when Joe Kennedy had served as ambassador to the Court of St. James’s. The senior Kennedy persuaded Kirk to let a private Boston doctor certify Jack’s good health. Kennedy was soon enjoying life as a young intelligence officer in the nation’s capital, where he started keeping company with 2. Inga Marie Arvad, a Danish- born reporter already twice married but now separated from her second husband, a Hungarian film director.

They had a torrid affair—many biographers say she was the true love of Kennedy’s life—but the relationship became a threat to his naval career. Arvad had spent time reporting in Berlin and had grown friendly with Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, and other prominent Nazis—ties that raised suspicions she was a spy. Kennedy eventually broke up with Arvad, but the imbroglio left him depressed and exhausted. He told a friend he felt “more scrawny and weak than usual.” He developed excruciating pain in his lower back. Jack consulted with his doctor at the Lahey Clinic in Boston, and asked for a six- month leave for surgery. Lahey doctors as well as specialists at the Mayo Clinic diagnosed chronic dislocation of the right sacroiliac joint, which could only be cured by spinal fusion.

Navy doctors weren’t so sure that Kennedy needed surgery. He spent two months at naval hospitals, after which his problem was incorrectly diagnosed as muscle strain.

The treatment: exercise and medication. During Jack’s medical leave, the navy won the battles of Midway and the Coral Sea. Ensign Kennedy emerged from his sickbed ferociously determined to see action. He persuaded Undersecretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, an old friend of his father, to get him into Midshipman’s School at Northwestern University.

Arriving in July 1. During that time, Lieutenant Commander John Duncan Bulkeley visited the school. Bulkeley was a freshly minted national hero. As commander of a PT squadron, he had whisked General Douglas Mac. Arthur and family from the disaster at Bataan, earning a Medal of Honor and fame in the book They Were Expendable. Bulkeley claimed his PTs had sunk a Japanese cruiser, a troopship, and a plane tender in the struggle for the Philippines, none of which was true. He was now touring the country promoting war bonds and touting the PT fleet as the Allies’ key to victory in the Pacific.

At Northwestern, Bulkeley’s tales of adventure inspired Kennedy and nearly all his 1,0. PT duty. Although only a handful were invited to attend PT training school in Melville, Rhode Island, Kennedy was among them. Weeks earlier, Joe Kennedy had taken Bulkeley to lunch and made it clear that command of a PT boat would help his son launch a political career after the war. Once in Melville, Jack realized that Bulkeley had been selling a bill of goods.

Instructors warned that in a war zone, PTs must never leave harbor in daylight. Their wooden hulls could not withstand even a single bullet or bomb fragment. The tiniest shard of hot metal might ignite the 3,0. Worse, their 1. 92. Japanese cruisers and destroyers they would target. Kennedy joked that the author of They Were Expendable ought to write a sequel titled They Are Useless. On April 1. 4, 1.

PT training, Kennedy arrived on Tulagi, at the southern end of the Solomon Islands. Watch Mercenary For Justice Hindi Full Movie here. Fifteen days later, he took command of PT- 1. American forces had captured Tulagi and nearby Guadalcanal, but the Japanese remained entrenched on islands to the north. The navy’s task: Stop enemy attempts to reinforce and resupply these garrisons. Except for the executive officer—Ensign Leonard Thom, a 2.

Ohio State—PT- 1. Kennedy. The boat was a wreck. Its three huge Packard motors needed a complete overhaul. Scum fouled its hull. The men worked until mid- May to ready it for sea. Determined to prove he was not spoiled, Jack joined his crew scraping and painting the hull. They liked his refusal to pull rank.

They liked even more the ice cream and treats that the lieutenant bought them at the PX. Jack also made friends with his squadron’s commanding officer, 2. Alvin Cluster, one of the few Annapolis graduates to volunteer for the PTs. Cluster shared Jack’s sardonic attitude toward the protocol and red tape of the “Big Navy.”On May 3. Cluster took PT- 1. Solomons. Here Kennedy made a reckless gaffe. After patrols, he liked to race back to base to snare the first spot in line for refueling.

He would approach the dock at top speed, reversing his engines only at the last minute. Machinist’s Mate Patrick “Pop” Mc. Mahon warned that the boat’s war- weary engines might conk out, but Kennedy paid no heed. One night, the engines finally did fail, and the 1. Some commanders might have court- martialed Kennedy on the spot. But Cluster laughed it off, particularly when his friend earned the nickname “Crash” Kennedy. Besides, it was a mild transgression compared to the blunders committed by other PT crews, whom Annapolis grads called the Hooligan Navy.