The cover above depicts the destruction of the most famous PT-boat of the war. On August 2, 1943, the PT-109 with captain John. F. Kennedy had a most harrowing adventure in which his boat suffered a fatal direct smash hit from a Japanese Destroyer that emerged from the pitch dark night and rammed the PT -boat in the Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. Of the crew of 13, eleven of them survived the carnage that followed due to the ignition of the fuel tanks. They were able to crawl onto a beach of a small island, John F. Kennedy went out for help and after hours and hours of wading and swimming, he found a couple of islanders that took a coconut with an SOS message carved to a nearby station. Thanks to his effort, the crew was saved. More details of that epic story can be found on the internet. Or see here
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