An Australian Planter Saw a US Torpedo Boat Explode He Saved the Crew, Including a Future President
Автор: The Striker Australia WW2
Загружено: 2025-12-16
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On August 2nd, 1943, a Japanese destroyer sliced through PT-109 in the darkness of Blackett Strait, killing two men instantly and leaving eleven Americans stranded behind enemy lines. Among the survivors was Lieutenant John F. Kennedy — a future President of the United States.
The US Navy wrote them off as dead. No search parties. No rescue missions. Just telegrams to families announcing their sons were lost.
But 40 miles away, an Australian coastwatcher named Reg Evans had witnessed the explosion. And his network of Solomon Islands scouts — men like Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana — were about to change history.
This is the untold story of PT-109. Not the polished campaign legend, but the real rescue: carried out by a plantation owner with a hidden radio, local scouts who risked execution to help strangers, and a message carved into a coconut shell.
How did eleven starving, wounded sailors survive six days in Japanese-controlled waters? Who were the forgotten heroes who actually saved them? And why did it take sixty years for the truth to be recognised?
The coconut sat on JFK's desk in the Oval Office. The men who carried it went back to fishing.
This is their story.
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