Saving Lieutenant Kennedy. The Heroic Story Of The Australian Who Helped Rescue JFK

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: NewSouth
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 264 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampments, the eleven surviving members of Kennedy s crew eventually struggled ashore on a small uninhabited island. Missing, presumed dead, behind enemy lines, with no food or water, and with several injured, the future looked bleak for the shipwrecked Americans. Fortunately, Australian coast watcher Lt Reg Evans witnessed the immediate aftermath of the collision from his nearby jungle hideaway. Working under the searching eye of the Japanese military, over the next five days Evans and two Solomon Islander scouts - Eroni Kumana and Biuku Gasa - located Kennedy and his crew and ensured their rescue. This story of wartime bravery and survival helped create JFK s legend and paved his way to the White House. It also shone a spotlight on Australia and America s shared wartime experience.

ISBN: 9781742237879