In the spirit of it all, let’s recall the story of the real PT-109, the little torpedo boat whose star-crossed fate made a war hero out of JFK, and eventually helped propel him into the White ...

Kennedy, PT-109. But was this the actual flag flying onboard JFK's boat the night in August 1943 that PT-109 collided with a Japanese destroyer and exploded? Said executive producer Marsha Bemko ...

James Mattoon Scott, an airman and World War II hero ... friend and fellow PT boat veteran Paul “Red” Fay, now under secretary of the Navy. Fay was eager to hear JFK’s opinion: Could ...

Jack joined the Navy in the fall of 1941. Two years later, he became a certified American hero. As commander of motor torpedo boat PT 109, he had kept his men safe behind enemy lines after the ...