00:00what's going on we're just figuring from the shooting sir the kennedy's out there wasting
00:13his time how do you make that out they must have changed the boat's route all of a sudden
00:17i'm kind of worried i told you he's a terrific swimmer yeah but we were making these patrols
00:24for months now night after night and just about now that karen changes and sweeps in another
00:28direction i don't care how good of a swimmer he is he's in trouble okay okay don't worry about it
00:48this is navy log the dramas you see each week on navy log are from official u.s. navy files
00:56they tell of ships and planes and those who manned them recorded through the years in navy log
01:04she was the pt 109 he was the skipper kennedy john f it was a black night august 143 the place
01:29black it straight in the solomons the duty patrol and intercept enemy shipping off randova without
01:37the help of radar
01:38in the dark was another ship with the same idea
01:45kill one and two we'll cruise on one engine
02:03that's a jack we'll give him less weight to spot us by
02:10look man how's she doing she's birkin sir
02:20order a thousand revolutions one thousand rpm yes sir
02:24time zero two thirty a.m. place one half of the 109 duty roll call
02:51close the board why i am here tom here
02:54barney
02:56that destroyer took him full
02:58ross
03:00in the drink
03:01who's there with you
03:04johnston
03:06winter
03:07turkey
03:09harris
03:10mcmahon
03:11where's kirksey
03:13kirksey
03:14kirksey
03:16lost
03:19everybody else okay can you make the boat mr kennedy mcmahon turned back
03:26hold it
03:28the lantern
03:29the lantern
03:30man
03:31what happened mr kennedy what happened destroyer rammed us
03:36here i'll take him
03:51you all right harris my legs hurt
03:53keep going
04:00skipper yeah i can't make it
04:04it's only a hundred yards keep swimming
04:06you can't make it my leg you're putting up a great exhibition out here now keep
04:10swimming
04:17time one hundred yards and three hours later place one half of the 109 i picked a fine time to go along for the ride
04:25time one hundred yards and three hours later
04:28place one half of the 109
04:32what's the word jack
04:35what's the word jack
04:36let me get my bearings ross
04:39hello room service
04:41i would like strawberries and cream
04:43a bowl of oatmeal
04:45two eggs sunny side up
04:47i'll knock it off mcguire
04:49no sense of humor
04:51well fellas this way i make it out
04:54that volcano over there means columbangara island columbangara means ten thousand jabs
05:01hmm
05:02out that way about five miles is vella la vella
05:05more jabs
05:07just over there is gizzo it's only a mile off
05:11mr kennedy
05:12yeah
05:13i saw some fires there last night
05:15now use this and you'll see who was lighting them
05:17good
05:19good
05:24yeah
05:25all right
05:27columbangara island
05:28three miles in jabs
05:30i'll develop five miles and more jabs
05:33he's though one mile still jabs
05:35anybody got any preferences
05:36what's wrong with staying on the ho
05:39number one how long can it stay afloat
05:42number two how long before they spot us from gizzo over there and grab us
05:46grab us come on fellas let's hear your ideas anything you say skipper skipper
05:53yeah but in a situation like this majority rule decides if we stay with
05:59the boat come by sir not in daylight it won't or one of them dumb boat planes we
06:06never had a chance to radio we were in trouble
06:10we got to get mcmahon somewhere soon oh come on make up your minds now look the thing is i don't want
06:18to order any man to do anything he's against some of you have kids and well i haven't got anything to
06:23lose i say we stick together whatever you decide but we got to get mcmahon somewhere soon with his
06:29parents and brother johnson took a lot of gas in his lungs anything you can do i can do atta boy
06:36all right man everybody in the water except johnson and mcmahon the less weight on it the
06:41longer she stays afloat for sure and then what well you see that string of islands over there
06:48it's right on the edge of ferguson passage the pt patrols come through every night
06:53i've a better chance of being picked up there okay have a drink man
06:57hey skipper any sharks in this water nope just barracudas
07:05hey grab that timber don't let it float away hang on to it save your strength
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