![]() ![]() ![]() The man in the forward machine-gun turret shouted, “Ship at two o’clock!” Kennedy saw a shape and spun the wheel to turn for an attack, but the 109 answered sluggishly. Kennedy was at the wheel and he saw Ross turn and point into the darkness. An officer named George Ross was up on the bow, magnifying the void with binoculars. The 109, with three officers and ten enlisted men aboard, was leading three boats on a sweep for a target. ![]() The night was a starless black and Japanese destroyers were around. They had entered Blackett Strait, as was their habit, through Ferguson Passage, between the coral islets and New Georgia. The boats were working about forty miles away from their base on the island of Rendova, on the south side of New Georgia. Blackett Strait is a patch of water bounded on the northeast by the volcano called Kolombangara, on the west by the island of Vella Lavella, on the south by the Island of Gizo and a string of coral-fringed islets, and on the east by the bulk of New Georgia. ![]() It seems that Kennedy’s PT, the 109, was out one night with a squadron patrolling Blackett Strait, in mid-Solomons. Kennedy had served as a PT-Boat Commander in the Pacific in the Second World War. ![]()
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