In the spirit of it all, let’s recall the story of the real PT-109, the little torpedo boat whose star-crossed fate made a war hero out of JFK, and eventually helped propel him into the White ...

j.g. Byron White (the future Supreme Court justice), 14 PT boats—three-engine wooden vessels armed with two .50-caliber machine guns and torpedoes—left their Rendova Island base at 6:30 p.m ...