John F. Kennedy, with cane in the Pacific, 1943, would later downplay his PT-109 role: "It was involuntary," he quipped. "They sank my boat." Ted Robinson John F. Kennedy—elected 50 years ago this ...

For SOFCs based on oxygen-ion (vacancy) conductors, the global anode reaction for hydrogen electro-oxidation is given by Figure 1: Patterned metal on thin-film ceria as a model system to study ...

World War II veteran Ken Clarke, a native of Dubois, Pennsylvania, was drafted into the U.S. Navy right after high school graduation in 1944 and served 18 months as a forward gunner on a high-speed ...

An analysis by Navy experts appears to confirm oceanographer Robert Ballard’s contention that he has discovered a section of John F. Kennedy’s PT 109. A team of experts from the Department of the Navy ...

On Nov. 16, Sunday, at 9 p.m. ET, MSNBC and National Geographic EXPLORER present “The Search for Kennedy’s PT 109,” the exclusive behind-the-scenes story of National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence ...

U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg, swam the Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the rescue of her father’s ...

Andrew Jackson Kirksey, one of two Navy sailors killed in the sinking of PT Boat 109 during World War II, will be honored with a memorial ceremony on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at 2 p.m., at the Massachusetts ...

A National Geographic expedition to the South Pacific has found the wreck of PT-109 beneath 1,200 feet of water near the Solomon Islands. PT-109 was under the command of a young John F. Kennedy when ...