Editing Tokyo Express (section)

==John F. Kennedy and ''PT-109''==
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[[John F. Kennedy]]'s [[Patrol torpedo boat PT-109|''PT-109'']] was lost on a [[Patrol_torpedo_boat_PT-109#Battle_of_Blackett_Strait|"poorly planned and uncoordinated" attack]] on a Tokyo Express run on the night of 1-2 August 1943.<ref>National Geographic Search for the PT-109 DVD</ref> Fifteen PT boats with sixty torpedoes fired over thirty and did not register a single hit, while ''PT-109'' was rammed and sunk by the destroyer [[Japanese destroyer Amagiri (1930)|''Amagiri'']], which was returning from her supply run, estimated to be traveling in excess of {{convert|30|kn}} with no running lights.