In article .com,
wrote:


I would love to stay here and argue pointlessly to a brick wall, I have
better, more constructive things to do with my life.

The original article that began this discussion is now more than two
years old. You seem to have stayed longer than anyone else!

Thanks to resources now available, I can answer a question I asked
previously:

What was the phase of the moon
and its azimuth and elevation at approximately
2:15 a.m. local time on the night of August 1-2,
1943 in approximate location Blackett Strait
off Vanga Vanga, i.e., the time and place of
the collision between PT-109 and the Japanese
destroyer?

According to some data provided by

http://www.skyviewcafe.com/skyview.php

there was no moonrise that evening. The moon was
at a nearly new-moon state.