That Kennedy
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Underwater photographs of two sunken Japanese aircraft reported shot down by the PT boat operated in the Solomons during the war by US President Kennedy were photographed re cently by an American news photographer.
The photographer, Mr. Elliott Erwitt, accompanied Mr. Robert C. Donovan, of the New York Herald Tribune, on a visit to the Western Solomons to get first hand impressions of the area in which President Kennedy fought during the war. They saw the place where he came ashore after his PT boat had been cut in half by a Japanese destroyer.
The Pressmen talked with natives of the Western district who acted as scouts with the Coastwatchers and who were the first to find Kennedy and his shipwrecked crew.
Mr. Donovan is writing a book on the wartime experiences of President Kennedy ( PIM, July, p. 127).