url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http://medipdf.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/killing-kennedy-oreilly-bill1

three American patrol torpedo boats cruise the BlackettStrait in the South Pacific, hunting Japanese warshipsnear a hotly contested area known as The Slot. At eightyfeet long, with hulls of two-inch-thick mahogany, andpowered by three powerful Packard engines, these patroltorpedo (PT) boats are nimble vessels, capable of flittingin close to sink Japanese battleships with a battery ofMark VIII torpedoes.The skipper of the boat bearing the number 109, ayoung second lieutenant, slouches in his cockpit, halfalert and half asleep. He has shut down two of hisengines to conceal PT-109 from Japanese spotter planes.The third engine idles softly, its deep propeller shaftleaving almost no wake in the iridescent water. He gazesacross the ocean on this night without moon or starlightin the hope of locating the two other nearby PTs. Butthey are invisible in the darkness—just like 109.The skipper doesn’t see or hear the destroyer Amagiriuntil it’s almost too late. She’s part of the Tokyo Express,a bold Japanese experiment to transport troops andweapons in and out of the tactically vital Solomon Islandsvia ultrafast warships. The Express relies on speed and