It was at 2:00 am local time on August 2, 1943, that PT-109, JFK, and crew had their rendezvous with destiny. Caught by surprise on a cloudy, foggy, moonless night, the American boat was rammed ...

Wartime found him commanding a PT boat and during the Solomons campaign he was friends with PT-109′s commander (and future president) Lt. John F. Kennedy. When Preston led his two wooden craft ...

Kennedy is the Commander of the US patrol torpedo boat PT-109. He was participating in a ... apart he managed to save the majority of his crew and make his way home. Several months later Kennedy ...