John Fitzgerald Kennedy oli Ameerika Ühendriikide 35. president. Teise maailmasõja ajal teenis Kennedy USA mereväes. Ta oli algul nooremleitnant ja teenis torpeedokaatri PT-109 kaptenina. 2. augustil 1943 rammis Jaapani hävitaja Amagiri seda ja see uppus. Kennedy organiseeris meeskonna evakueerumise läheduses asuvale asustamata Ploomipudingi saarele, mida hiljem hakati kutsuma Kennedy saareks. Selle kangelasteo eest ülendati Kennedy leitnandiks ja teda autasustati Mereväe ja Merejalaväe medaliga. John Kennedy oli demokraat. Ta kandideeris 1946 Esindajatekotta tugeva demokraatliku meelsusega valimisringkonnas pärast seda, kui eelmine saadik James Curley loobus oma kohast, et saada Bostoni linnapeaks.
commands. They frequently gave valuable early warning of Japanese bombing raids and ship movements, and they assisted in the rescue of downed Allied airmen. In the early morning hours of August 2, 1943, coast-watcher Lieutenant Arthur Reginald Evans of the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve saw a pinpoint of flame on the dark waters of Blackett Strait from his jungle ridge on Kolombangara Island, one of the Solomons. He did not know then that the Japanese destroyer Amagiri had rammed and sliced in half an American patrol torpedo boat, PT 109, Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, United States Naval Reserve, commanding. But at 9:30 that morning he received a 20-group message enciphered in Playfair, the coastwatchers' cipher system. He deciphered it with key ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY and learned, PT boat one owe nine lost in action in Blackett Strait two miles SW Meresu Cove X Crew of twelve X Request any information X. He reported back to the coastwatcher near
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