SAN RAFAEL (CBS SF) -- A retired Lieutenant Commander credited with rescuing John F. Kennedy during World War II recounted his experience in front of a packed crowd in San Rafael Monday. 95-year old U ...
Under the cover of darkness on Aug. 7, 1943, Lt. William Liebenow skippered his patrol torpedo boat into enemy waters in the South Pacific. His mission was to rescue the sailors of PT-109 who had ...
On a moonless night in the summer of 1943, a Japanese destroyer tore through a U.S. Navy patrol-torpedo boat guarding the waters around the Solomon Islands. The boat was PT-109, skippered by a young ...
There may be an important part of World War II history at the bottom of the Harlem River. William Doyle, author of the John F. Kennedy biography “PT 109” (William Morrow), believes with “99.99 percent ...