Two Greatest WWII movies made in 1940's

[whitehall]

PT 109 is the best example of a Hollywood manufactured quasi documentary. History indicates that JFK's Boat was the only PT boat to be run over in WW2. With their immense power and relative small size, PT boats were able to evade the slower destroyers easily. The fact that the Japanese didn't stop to see what the hell they ran over indicates that PT 109 was not on a combat mission. Evidence suggests that JFK's Boat was sleeping in a shipping lane when he was run over. JFK was facing a serious Naval inquiry when his father hired a novelist to turn the loss of PT109 into a heroic story. They even turned it into a song. Such is the power of the media and the press to support a politician.

 

[odanny]

A little known but excellent WW2 movie about the battle of the Hurtgen forest.
"When Trumpets Fade"

Great film, one of my favorites.

 

[Sunni Man]

PT 109 is the best example of a Hollywood manufactured quasi documentary. History indicates that JFK's Boat was the only PT boat to be run over in WW2. With their immense power and relative small size, PT boats were able to evade the slower destroyers easily. The fact that the Japanese didn't stop to see what the hell they ran over indicates that PT 109 was not on a combat mission.

Incorrect.
That night the fog was soo thick you couldn't see anything.
Lt. Kennedy had put PT 109 in neutral with the engines in idle to save fuel and was waiting for the fog to clear up a little before preceding with his mission.
When the Japanese Destroyer ran over Lt. Kennedy's boat it was like hitting a little bump on the road, and the Captain of the Destroyer wasn't about to stop his ship to investigate if they had ran over a fishing boat or something else. Which would make his Destroyer an easy target for American submarines lurking in the area.

 

[whitehall]

Incorrect.
That night the fog was soo thick you couldn't see anything.
Lt. Kennedy had put PT 109 in neutral with the engines in idle to save fuel and was waiting for the fog to clear up a little before preceding with his mission.
When the Japanese Destroyer ran over Lt. Kennedy's boat it was like hitting a little bump on the road, and the Captain of the Destroyer wasn't about to stop his ship to investigate if they had ran over a fishing boat or something else. Which would make his Destroyer an easy target for American submarines lurking in the area.

Fog was common in the north Atlantic because of cool air but rare in the South Pacific. Water temperatures in the Soloman Islands in August reach 86 degrees so fog is unlikely. Even if fog was a factor it seems that JFK was still responsible for the loss of his Boat which was the only one to be run over by a Japanese destroyer in WW2. Were they sleeping? Daddy hired a Hollywood writer to turn the negligence into a heroic epic worthy of a movie and by God they actually turned it into a movie.