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Uploaded by on Jul 14, 2007

NGC finds the ship (The PT-109( that JFK survived when it was sinking after hitting the bigger Japanese ship and find one Kennedy's rescuer who is quite old now.

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  • the two vessels did not "collide" ,the IJN destroyer skipper SPOTTED the PT 109 (a much smaller craft ) and INTENTIONALLY ran it over ,this was a fairly commonplace tactic against enemy submarines and smaller craft ,especially at night ,when it might be very difficult to find it again .

    essentially ,the lookouts(and skipper) of PT 109 were caught napping and run over by a ship they should have spotted first ,given its much ,much larger size and the frothy white bow wave as it approached .

  • The Elco 80 ft. was mostly wood. So it is likely only the tubes & packards remain.

  • @Skytroop "Ballard found a torpedo not a boat"

    Ballard found the PT-109 * because thats the only PT-Boat that sank in that area. So regardless if it's only a torpedo tube and not the whole wreck under sediments attached he's damned close to the wreck itself which should not be distubed

    * JFK holds the notorioty of being the only skipper of a USN PT-Boat to be rammed and sunk by an enemy destroyer (or any ship) in the entire 'Pacific Campaign' of WW2 (over 1200+ built if I recall accurately)

  • @CAPTRON1234 OK then where is the boat? All I see is a torpedo.

  • Its a Mark 13 launcher with a Mark 8 torpedo inside it but it is not a PT boat. Its PT 109 because Ballard's team wanted it to be PT 109 and there is no other substantiation for that claim.

    Ballard found a torpedo not a boat.

  • I was going to say that!

  • JFK RIP

    PT109 GRAVESITE RIP

  • That's what I heard too.

  • wow, rip jfk

  • good. thanks.

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