Coastwatcher LEUT Evans, RANVR, rescued the Captain of the US vessel, PT109, (torpedo boat), LEUT John F. Kennedy, and his crew, on Wana Wana Island. The future President of the USA’s command, had been rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer AMAGIRI.
Australian Naval History on 6 August 1943
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