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U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg, swam the Burkett Strait in the Solomon Islands to mark the 80th anniversary of the rescue of her father’s PT-109 crew.
Eighty years ago, then-US Navy lieutenant and future US President John F. Kennedy heroically swam between Pacific islands to help save the crew of his torpedo boat that had been destroyed by a Japanese warship during World War II.
Caroline Kennedy and Jack Schlossberg, the daughter and grandson of John. F. Kennedy, are recreating one of the famed swims the late president took to rescue fellow sailors while he was serving in the U.S. Navy. “Eighty years ago, President Kennedy swum between Plum Pudding Island (now known as Kennedy Island), Naru Island, and Olasana…
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