TheCodeBreakers
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
Munda, whose call-sign was PWD, that Object still floating between Meresu
and Gizo, and at 1:12 p.m. he was told by the coastwatcher station KEN
on Guadalcanal that there was a possibility of survivors landing either
Vangavanga or islands.
This was just what Kennedy and his crew had done. They had swum
to Plum Pudding Island, one of a group that hangs from the southeastern
tip of Gizo Island
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