Eroni Kumana, a Solomon Islander who was credited with helping to save the lives of then-Navy Lt. John F. Kennedy and his PT-109 crew members after their boat was destroyed by a Japanese warship ...

“The members of our family want to express our appreciation to Dr. Ballard and National Geographic for the manner in which the gravesite of two PT 109 crew members was treated with respect ...

Eroni Kumana dies at 93; helped rescue JFK and his PT-109 crew Max Kennedy, nephew of President Kennedy, visits Eroni Kumana, right, in November 2002 in the Solomon Islands.

Kennedy, an environmental studies professor at Boston College, asks Dick Keresey, who commanded PT-105 in the same squadron, why the PT-109 was so quickly forgotten and its crew presumed dead.

That was when he and a fellow boatman, Biuku Gasa, were credited with spotting Navy Lt. John F. Kennedy and members of his PT-109 crew, days after their boat had been destroyed by a Japanese ...

Speaking Tuesday in the Solomon Islands at an official commemoration of PT-109, Caroline Kennedy recalled her father’s legacy and the islanders who helped him and his crew.

The PT 109 crew was rescued six days later by another U.S. vessel. The incident was viewed as an example of heroism and was invoked repeatedly during Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign.

JFK became a public hero in WWII for his actions in the Pacific as Captain of PT-109, but his older brother wasn't so impressed.

JFK's daughter Caroline and grandson Jack recreate his heroic swim off the Solomon Islands to save himself and his stranded US Navy PT-109 crew after they were capsized by a Japanese destroyer 80 ...