8:53 AMMr. Luddite
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I don't know about that Tim. Reading the accounts, Kennedy's boat
(PT-109) was not equipped with radar. Although some PT boats were being
equipped with radar, his was not.

The collision occurred at 2am on a moonless night. Pitch black and
lights out on both the PT boat and the destroyer. Kennedy was sitting
in the channel, idling on one of the three engines. By the time someone
noticed the Japanese destroyer heading at them at high speed, they had
10 seconds to fire up the other engines and get out of the way.

That's the "official" account anyway, based on survivor's testimonies.
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I can appreciate that Richard. And I know freakier accidents and things have happened. Radar would have been a plus but even with one engine, he could have nailed that one and probably gotten clear.

Oh yeah there's rumors of being asleep and rumors of partying. Etc. I wasn't there and I can't say. But what I can say is that there is more than one theory of what happened. And I did note you mentioned the "official" testimony...,