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...TIME footnote brought an unexpected endorsement for Congressman John Kennedy, running for the Senate in Massachusetts. The footnote described one of Kennedy's wartime experiences as a Navy lieutenant, when his PT boat was split in two by a Japanese destroyer. Since then, Kennedy has heard from Kohei Hanami, who wrote: "When I read the TIME magazine of Aug. 18, which mentioned the battle in question, my memory being refreshed, I can vividly recall what happened...
...pitch-black morning in August 1943, Lieut. Kennedy's PT boat was sliced in two by a Japanese destroyer patrolling the Solomon Islands. With ten crew members, Kennedy swam from one island to another for six days before being rescued, was later cited for bravery and for saving the lives...
...written by Scripter-Producer Lamar Trotti and played by Tyrone Power, the PT-boat officer who becomes a major of guerrillas is a stock movie hero. He is equipped with a comic sidekick from Pocatello (Tom Ewell), a Tommy gun that never needs reloading, a romance that blossoms in warmest Technicolor during interludes of song & dance. The book's love story has been revamped and overblown: its Spanish heroine (now French, presumably to accommodate the studio's contract with France's Micheline Prelle) is married to a wealthy Filipino planter but conveniently widowed in plenty of time...
Thus Colonel Oliver Prince Smith, commanding the 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division, described the dawn of his first battle in World War II. His naval escort consisted of six little PT boats mounting nothing stronger than 20-mm. guns. Smith improvised his own artillery preparation by firing the guns of his tanks while they were still offshore in the assault craft. Since air support from Army planes failed to arrive, Smith's air support consisted of one Piper cub which dropped eight hand grenades behind the enemy beach. In spite of these crudities, the Willaumez operation...
Harry Morgan (John Garfield), a rough & ready veteran of PT boats, scrounges a living for his wife (Phyllis Thaxter) and two daughters by chartering his cruiser for fishing trips. Apart from his boat (which is not paid up) and a talent for spotting marlin half a mile off, he has nothing "to peddle but guts." When a client runs out on his bill, leaving Morgan broke in a Mexican port, he starts peddling guts...