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PT-109 Elco 80'
These photos are from documentation of four PT boats loaded on to the Liberty Ship Joseph Stanton in August of 1942 before being shipped first to Panama and then to the Solomon Islands, where future President John F. Kennedy would eventually captain PT-109 until her sinking following a collsion with the Japanese destroyer Amagiri the morning of 2 August, 1943. All three photos on this page are of PT-109 itself.
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