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Many of the torpedoes that were fired exploded prematurely or ran at the wrong depth. A few other PTs, including the leader of Division A to the south of Kennedy, intercepted the destroyers on their southbound route close to Kolombangara, but were unable to hit any with torpedoes.
The boats were radioed by Warfield to return when their torpedoes were expended, but the four boats with radar fired their torpedoes first and were ordered to return to base. Commander Warfield's concept of sending orders to the PTs in darkness by radio from 40 miles 64 km away and without a view of the battle, was inefficient at best. The radar sets the four boats carried were relatively primitive, and sometimes malfunctioned. When the four boats with radar left the scene of the battle, the remaining boats, including PT , were deprived of the ability to determine the location or approach of the oncoming destroyers, and were not notified that other boats had already engaged the enemy.
Late in the night, Kennedy's and two accompanying PTs became the last to sight the Japanese destroyers returning on their northern route to Rabaul , New Britain , New Guinea , after they had completed dropping their supplies and troops at a. Kennedy's boat was idling on one engine to avoid the detection of her phosphorescent wake by Japanese aircraft when the crew realized they were in the path of the Japanese destroyer Amagiri , which was heading north to Rabaul from Vila Plantation, Kolombangara , after offloading supplies and soldiers.
Contemporary accounts of the incident, particularly the work of Mark Doyle, do not often find Kennedy at fault for the collision. The lack of speed and maneuverability caused by the idling engines of the put the ship at risk from passing Big Wooden Boat House Youtuber destroyers, but Kennedy had not been warned by radio of destroyers in the area. Kennedy believed the firing he had heard was from shore batteries on Kolombangara, not destroyers, and that he could best avoid detection by enemy sea planes by idling his engines and reducing his wake.
Kennedy said he attempted to turn PT to fire a torpedo and have Ensign George "Barney" Ross fire their newly installed 37 mm anti-tank gun from the bow at the oncoming northbound destroyer Amagiri. Ross lifted a shell but did not have time to load it into the closed breech of the weapon that Kennedy hoped might deter the oncoming vessel. Most contemporary authors write that Amagiri ' s captain intentionally steered to collide with the Amagiri' s captain, Lieutenant Commander Kohei Hanami, later admitted it himself and also stated that the was traveling at a steady pace in their direction.
When PT was cut in two around a. Seamen Andrew Jackson Kirksey and Harold William Marney were killed instantly, and two other members of the crew were badly injured and burned when they were thrown into the flaming sea surrounding the boat. For such a catastrophic collision, explosion, and fire, there were few men lost when contrasted to the losses on other PT boats hit by shell fire.
PT was gravely damaged, with watertight compartments keeping only the forward hull afloat in a sea of flames. PT , closest to Kennedy's craft, launched two torpedoes that missed the destroyer and PT ' s torpedoes failed to fire at all. Both boats then turned away from the scene of the action and returned to base without checking for survivors from PT There had been no procedure outlined by Commander Warfield of how to search for survivors or what the PT flotilla should do in case a ship was lost.
Eight PTs fired 30 torpedoes. The only confirmed results were the loss of PT and damage to the Japanese destroyer Amagiri " [from striking the ]. Kennedy was able to rescue MM1 Patrick McMahon, the crew member with the most severe wounds, which included burns that covered 70 percent of his body, and brought him to the floating bow.
Kennedy also rescued Starkey and Harris, bringing them both to the bow. By about 1 p. They placed their lantern, shoes, and non-swimmers on one of the timbers that had been used as a gun mount and began kicking together to propel it. Kennedy, who had been on the Harvard University swim team, used a life jacket strap clenched between his teeth to tow McMahon. Plum Pudding Island was only yards 91 m in diameter, with no food or water.
The exhausted crew dragged themselves behind the tree line to hide from passing Japanese barges. The night of 2 August, Kennedy swam 2 miles 3. On 4 August, he and Lenny Thom assisted his injured and hungry crew on a demanding swim 3. They swam against a strong current, and once again, Kennedy towed McMahon by his life vest. They were pleased to discover Olasana had ripe coconuts, though there was still no fresh water. Kennedy and Ross found a small canoe, packages of crackers and candy, and a fifty-gallon drum of drinkable water left by the Japanese, which Kennedy paddled back to Olasana in the acquired canoe to provide his crew.
Months earlier, Kennedy had learned a smattering of the pidgin English used by the coastwatchers by speaking with a native boy. The two coastwatchers had finally been convinced by Ensign Thom that the crew were from the lost , when Thom asked Gasa if he knew John Kari, and Gasa replied that he worked with him.
The rescue of PT was a long process, largely achieved by the work of native Solomon Island scouts who first located Kennedy and his crew. The scouts were sent by Sub-lieutenant Arthur Reginald Evans , an Australian coastwatcher , who had seen the explode from his secret observation site.
The explosion and resulting fireball on the early morning of 2 August was spotted by Evans, who manned a secret observation post at the top of the Mount Veve volcano on Kolombangara, where more than 10, Japanese troops were garrisoned below on the southeast portion.
The Navy and its squadron of PT boats held a memorial service for the crew of PT after reports were made of the large explosion, but Commander Warfield, to his credit, ordered an aerial search by Royal New Zealand Air Force P fighters that spotted a few remains of the wreck, but not the crew who had already swum to safety.
Evans had been the first to dispatch islander scouts, Gasa and Kumana, in a dugout canoe late on 5 August, to look for possible survivors after decoding radio broadcasts that the explosion he had witnessed was from the lost PT Gasa and Kumana had been trained by the British and Australians in search and detection and were willing to sacrifice their lives as part of their duty to the British and American troops.
Native coastwatchers were used because they could avoid detection by Japanese ships and aircraft and, if spotted, would probably be taken for native fishermen. Before they were rescued by the scouts on 8 August, Kennedy and his men survived for six days on Plum Pudding and then Olasana Island.
They had eaten only a few ripe coconuts, rainwater caught on leaves, and small amounts of fresh water and Japanese cookies Kennedy had taken from Naru Island. By chance Gasa and Kumana stopped by Naru to investigate a Japanese wreck, from which they salvaged fuel and food.
They first fled by canoe from Kennedy, who with his sunburn, beard, and disheveled clothing appeared to them to be a Japanese soldier. When they later arrived on Olasana, they pointed their Tommy guns at the rest of the crew, since the only light-skinned people they expected to find were Japanese with whom they could not communicate.
Kennedy's message scratched on a coconut while he was on Naru, where he had spent some time from 4�7 August, was not the only communication given to the coastwatchers. Thom's message was a "penciled note" written on paper, which read: [31] [52].
A small boat outboard or oars is needed to take men off as some are seriously burned. Rely on native boys to any extent Thom Ens. R Exec. Though the movie depicted Kennedy offering a coconut inscribed with a message as his idea and the sole form of communication, it was Gasa who suggested it and Kumana who climbed a coconut tree to pick one. On the instructions of Gasa, Kennedy painstakingly scratched the following message on the coconut husk with a knife: [34]. Ben Kevu sent another scout to inform Reginald Evans, north on Kolombangara Island, of the discovery.
Gasa and Kumana departed Wana Wana with scout John Kari in a better canoe given them by Kevu, carrying both Thom's and Kennedy's messages to a military outpost on Roviana Island, close to the PT Rendova base in a total of fifteen hours by paddling their canoe all night through 38 mi 61 km of rough seas, and hostile waters patrolled by the Japanese.
From the content of the messages, it is clear both Thom and Kennedy trusted the coastwatchers with their lives, as neither message contained the exact coordinates of their location, nor the name of Olasana Island.
Traveling in an arranged boat, Gasa and Kumana were at last sent south to the PT base at Rendova from Roviana Island, a distance of only 3 miles 4. Around 6 August, after speaking to Kevu about the eleven found on Olasana, Evans sent a canoe with fresh fish, yams, potatoes, corned beef hash, and rice to Kennedy and his crew with a message to return to him on Kolumbangara's Gomu Island in the canoe immediately.
Kennedy followed this request and was the only one of his crew to go, since there were many Japanese planes flying above and the coast watcher's station was located on the Japanese occupied island of Wana Wana. Kennedy was instructed to lie underneath palm fronds in the canoe so he would not be spotted by Japanese planes.
On the night of 6�7 August, while Kennedy still awaited rescue, Admiral William Halsey , now convinced that PTs were unsuitable against Japanese destroyers, sent six Plum Wooden Boat House Us U. Navy destroyers equipped with more advanced radar to intercept the "Tokyo Express", again on their frequent run to Kolombangara Island.
This time, the U. This action became known as the "Battle of Vella Gulf". On 7 August, when the coastwatcher scouts carrying the coconut and paper message arrived at Rendova, PT Commander Warfield was at first skeptical of the messages and the trustworthiness of the native scouts Gasa and Kumana.
After finally receiving Evans' radioed message of the discovery of the crew, and facing overwhelming evidence that Kennedy had returned from the dead, he cautiously consented to risk two PTs to rescue them. Warfield selected PT , commanded by Kennedy's friend and former tentmate Lieutenant William Liebenow for the rescue, as he and his crew were experienced and familiar with the area. Liebenow later said that his crew were chosen because they were "the best boat crew in the South Pacific.
Departing just after sunset from Rendova at p. To prevent making a wake, Liebenow traveled at knots, muffled his engines, and zigzagged to prevent being tracked by planes or shore batteries. The arranged signal when Liebenow picked up Kennedy on Gomu was four shots, but since Kennedy only had three bullets in his pistol, Evans gave him a Japanese rifle for the fourth signal shot.
With Kennedy aboard, PT rescued the weak and hungry PT crew members on Olasana Island in the early morning of 8 August, after dispatching row boats to pick them up. The then motored the full crew and the coastwatcher scouts forty miles 64 km back to the Rendova PT base where they could begin to receive medical attention.
All the published accounts of the PT incident made Kennedy the key player in rescuing all 11 crew members and made him a war hero. The PT incident aggravated Kennedy's ongoing health issues. It contributed to his back problems, until his symptoms eventually progressed to a point where they were incapacitating. The coconut shell came into the possession of Ernest W.
Gibson Jr. It is now on display at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. Kennedy invited both Gasa and Kumana to his inauguration, but the island authorities gave their trip to local officials instead. Kumana and Gasa made it to the airport in Honiara, but were turned back by Solomon Island officials on the grounds that their appearance and pidgin English would be an embarrassment. Gasa died in late August , his passing noted only in a single blog post by a relative.
In , the commanding officer of USS Peleliu , Captain Ed Rhoades, presented Kumana with gifts, including an American flag for his actions more than 60 years earlier. Kumana had been a scout for the Coastwatchers throughout the war, and besides rescuing the crew of PT , he had rescued two downed American pilots who parachuted into the sea.
Kumana noted that Kennedy visited him several times while still stationed at Rendova and always brought trinkets to swap. Kumana lived atop a cliff on his native island with his extended family. His most prized possession was his bust of President Kennedy, later given him by the Kennedy family.
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