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		The Japanese destroyer Suzukaze is sunk by the submarine USS Skipjack (SS-184) in the Carolines.
		The Japanese destroyer Umidaze is sunk by the submarine USS Guardfish (SS-217) in the Carolines.
		The Japanese minelayer Shirataka is sunk by the submarine USS Sealion (SS-315) in Luzon Strait in the Philippines.
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	Japanese Navy Ships--Amagiri (Destroyer, 1930)
		Later involved with the campaign to conquer Malaya and Singapore, she engaged two British destroyers off the Malay coast on the night of 27 January 1942.
		Amagiri participated in the 14-15 October and 14 November bombardment missions during the Guadalcanal Campaign, and helped escort the last major Japanese convoy to that island, on 15 November 1942.
		Later in the year, she was at Rabaul during the U.S. carrier air raids on 5 and 8 November and carried troops to Bougainville on 6-7 November.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/japan/japsh-a/amagiri.htm (374 words)

	Japanese destroyer Amagiri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Amagiri (Misty Rain), one of 20 Fubuki class destroyers, was laid down at the Ishikawajima dockyard at Tokyo, Japan on 28 November 1928, launched 27 February 1930, and commissioned 10 November 1930.
		This destroyer took part in the Sino-Japanese War in the late 1930's and was assigned to the 20th Destroyer Division.
		In April of 1942, the Amagiri was assigned to the Southern Group of the Supporting Force in Operation C which was a major raid on allied shipping along the east coast of India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Amagiri (0 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Japanese destroyer Amagiri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This destroyer took part in the Sino-Japanese War (A war between China and Japan (1894 and 1895) over the control of the Korean Peninsula; China was overwhelmingly defeated at Port Arthur) in the late 1930's and was assigned to the 20th Destroyer Division.
		It took part in the successful Japanese landing at Singora, Thailand (A country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula) in December of 1941.
		On the night of 24-25 November 1943, the Amagiri was on a reinforcement mission to Bougainville (The largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea) when it became involved in the Battle of Cape St. George.
	absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/japanese_destroyer_amagiri.htm (0 words)

	annika's journal: A Better Band Of Brothers
		Around 0200 with Kennedy at the helm, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri traveling at 40 knots cut PT 109 in two in ten seconds.
		Although the Japanese destroyer had not realized that their ship had struck an enemy vessel, the damage to PT 109 was severe.
		As Amagiri steamed away, its wake doused the flames on the floating section of PT 109 to which five Americans clung: Kennedy, Thom, and three enlisted men, S1/c Raymond Albert, RM2/c John E. Maguire and QM3/c Edman Edgar Mauer.
	annika.mu.nu /archives/039620.html (0 words)

	Destroyer History — Introduction
		Fourth-generation destroyer USS Buchanan, DD 484, in 1942.
		State-of-the-art destroyers as World War Two began were the Japanese “special type.” The first of these were the Fubuki class; with heavy gun and torpedo armament, enclosed double turrets and a low silhouette, their design became the prototype for all subsequent Japanese destroyer construction.
		Destroyer construction resumed in 1932, Over the next seven years, the US built several third-generation destroyer classes, collectively the “1500-tonners,” all of which featured this new 5-inch gun on a 340-to-350-foot high-forecastle hull that could exceed 35 knots.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /destroyers/introduction.html (1698 words)

	NPR : The Hunt for PT-109, Radio Expeditions
		Around 2 a.m., according to Navy reports, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri was speeding through the area.
		Official accounts say the destroyer was hidden by the fl shadow of the island looming behind it.
		Japanese troops were just a mile away on Kolombangara Island and could have seen the drifters come sun up.
	www.npr.org /programs/re/archivesdate/2002/jul/index.html (915 words)

	John F, Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Around 0200 with Kennedy at the helm, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri traveling at 40 knots cut PT 109 in two in ten seconds.
		Although the Japanese destroyer had not relized that their ship had struck an enemy vessel, the damage to PT 109 was severe.
		As Amagiri steamed away, its wake doused the flames on the floating section of PT 109 to which five Americans clung: Kennedy, Thom, and three enlisted men, S1/c Raymond Albert, RM2/c John E. Maguire and QM3/c Edman Edgar Mauer.
	www.worldsfinestnavy.com /JFK.html (1165 words)

	1943
		The Japanese garrison of 6,000 troops is secretly evacuated from Kiska in the
		The Japanese destroyer Amagiri sinks USN PT-109 in the Solomon's, which is commanded by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy.
		The first of two heavy air raids against Wewak are conducted by the 5th AAF, with 64 Japanese planes and seven ships destroyed.
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	1943 August 1st (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rangoon: The Japanese government today announced that the British colony of Burma is to be independent.
		The Japanese military administration now occupying the country under Lt-Gen Mazikazu Kawabe has handed over its powers to the Burmese nationalist leader Dr Ba Maw, who has been premier under Japan for the last year.
		Burmese nationalists supporting the Japanese during their 1942 invasion, and now formed into a Burmese National Army, rendered great propaganda benefits to Japan, as has the creation of the Indian National Army, led by Subhas Chandra Bose and recruited from Indian Army prisoners of war.
	www.etherington.demon.co.uk /1943/august/1.htm (0 words)

	CG work for PT-109 Project
		I was asked by the show's producer to create a 3D simulation of the collision between the PT-109 and the Japanese destroyer Amagiri, which occurred in the early morning hours of August 3, 1943.
		The visibility was really bad, and at around 2am it suffered a collision with the Japanese destroyer IJN Amagiri.
		The IJN Amagiri was a member of the Fubuki class of destroyer, which in 1943 was used to escort troops and supplies to remaining Japanese strongholds in the Solomon Islands.
	66.70.254.100 /art/Hash/pt109/pt109project.html (0 words)

	MaritimeQuest - Daily Event for April 23, 2006 IJN Amagiri
		During her career Amagiri was involved in the rescue of personnel from no less than five ships which had been sunk by the US.
		The Amagiri was also damaged in battle once at Kula Gulf and again off Rabaul.
		Like most Japanese destroyers though she ended up on the bottom of the ocean as a war loss.
	www.maritimequest.com /daily_event_archive/2006/april/23_ijn_amagiri.htm (199 words)

	Replies
		The truth is that nowhere near half of Kennedy's crew died when Pt-109 was struck by a Japanese destroyer.
		Kennedy indicated that his failure to "open the flaps" on his mufflers before increasing power resulted in the engines stalling, so that the 109 was effectively adrift when the destroyer sliced into her seconds later.1 This revelation is, to say the least, a potential bombshell.
		Accounts vary, but the crew of the PT-109 apparently at first mistook the Japanese destroyer Amagiri (here, as she looked in the late 1930s) as another PT-boat—until 30 seconds later, when they braced for the ramming that would sink them.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1447145/replies?c=15 (0 words)

	The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II--1944
		Japanese gunboat Eiko Maru is sunk by aircraft north of Saipan, 15°12'N, 144°52'E, as she proceeds to the position of the loss of Fukuyama Maru that had been sunk by Tang (SS-306) on 22 February.
		Destroyer Hall (DD-583) is damaged by shore battery off Wotje, 09°30'N, 170°00'E. Japanese submarine I-169 is sunk by accidental flooding during PB4Y bombing of Truk; efforts to save trapped crewmen (the last of whom live until 7 April) prove unsuccessful.
		Destroyer escort Holder (DE-401) is damaged by aerial torpedo 35 miles northeast of Algiers, 37°03'N, 03°58'E, as she lays smoke ahead of the convoy.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/USN-Chron/USN-Chron-1944.html (12320 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Ballard Announces His Discovery of Kennedy's PT-109
		But should a PT boat ever be caught with idling engines in the path of a Japanese warship, the outcome was quick and final.
		But the occasional destroyer -- more than three times the size of a PT boat and almost as fast -- still appeared as an escort, and Japanese doctrine on PT boats "was to kill them before they killed you," Green said.
		The Amagiri was traveling more than 35 mph when it rammed PT-109, whose crew had shut down two engines and idled the third to minimize its noise and wake.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A52423-2002Jul10?language=printer (839 words)

	Články - Válečné lodě druhé světové války
		Destroyer Shubrick (DD-639) is damaged by dive bomber off Palermo, Sicily, 38°06'N, 13°20'E. freighter Harrison Grey Otis, anchored in Gibraltar harbor, is irreparably damaged by Italian limpet mine.
		Japanese gunboat Tozan Maru is wrecked in storm on the south coast of Hokkaido, 42°25'N, 143°20'E. Atlantic
		Submarine Tunny (SS-282) attacks Japanese convoy consisting of transport Amagisan Maru and oiler (ex-seaplane carrier) Tsurumi, escorted by submarine chaser Ch 4, off Palaus, 07°30'N, 134°20'E; Tunny's attack is unsuccessful but Ch 4 damages the submarine and forces her to terminate her patrol.
	warships.web4u.cz /givetbl.php?language=&hist=USN_1943_8E (3578 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on National Geographic - PT 109: Kennedy's Lost Ship at Epinions.com
		It was there during the early hours of 2 August 1943, PT-109 was rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri, cutting away the PT boat's starboard side and leaving her completely disabled.
		He also finds the wreck of a Japanese destroyer which had sunk in the same channel that helps him locate PT 109.
		The fact of the matter is on that night visibility was down to only a few feet in the pitch fl darkness and the Japanese destroyer was moving at near flank speed.
	www.epinions.com /content_143066500740 (816 words)

	Books by Robert Ballard
		Accompanying him were a group of Japanese and American veterans who had once faced each other as enemies.
		Their memories of the epic conflict act as an affecting counterpoint to the story of the high-tech hunt for this great sunken battlefield.
		Ballard's search area was enormous and his targets-the Yorktown and four Japanese carriers-lay over three miles down, far deeper than the titanic or the Bismarck.
	www.literati.net /Ballard/BallardBooks.htm (0 words)

	CNN.com - Historians say wreck probably PT-109 - July 11, 2002
		Kennedy was a lieutenant junior grade in the U.S. Navy when his PT-109 was hit by a Japanese destroyer in August 1943.
		In the wee hours of August 2, 1943, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri rammed the boat, which sank in the strait near Gizo.
		Two of the 13 sailors on board PT-109 lost their lives in the engagement with Japanese destroyers that night.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/US/07/10/pt109 (696 words)

	Powell's Books - PT 109: John F. Kennedy in World War II by Robert J Donovan
		In the early morning darkness of August 2, 1943, in the waters of Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri sliced an American PT boat in two, leaving its crew for dead in a flaming sea.
		The result is both a gripping tale of wartime heroism and a fascinating portrait of one of the United States' greatest leaders as a young man.
		Bob Donovan has written the definitive story of my brother's heroic efforts to save his crew in 1943 after their torpedo boat was cut in half by a Japanese destroyer, near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.
	www.powells.com /biblio?show=0071376437 (0 words)

	The Raab Collection: John F. Kennedy’s Signed Contract For the First Dramatization of the PT-109 Story
		Around 2AM, with Kennedy at the helm, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri traveling at 40 knots cut PT 109 in two in ten seconds.
		Kennedy, Capt. of the boat, directed the rescue of the crew and personally rescued 3 men, one of whom was seriously injured.
		Time Magazine reviewed the program, saying “On the screen flashed the story of PT 109...A Japanese destroyer sliced Kennedy's craft in two in the vicinity of the Solomon Islands one day in August 1943.
	www.raabcollection.com /detail.aspx?cat=2&subcat=41&man=621 (846 words)

	USATODAY.com - Kennedy's PT-109 is found, 59 years after it sank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Meanwhile, its last captain became president and its crew's survival, after being rammed by a Japanese destroyer, became part of the Kennedy legend.
		PT-109 was rammed in 1943 by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri.
		"So the destroyer hit it at a sharp angle and sheared off part of the boat." Two crewmembers died in the collision; Kennedy and 10 others survived.
	www.usatoday.com /news/science/2002-07-11-pt-109.htm (506 words)

	Military.com Content
		To the Japanese destroyer Amagiri, running at 40 knots through south Pacific seas, it might as well have been.
		Too swift for thought, the destroyer roared toward -- and through -- PT 109, smashing the wooden boat with its steel prow.
		The Amagiri steamed on, its crew unaware of the collision.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=ML_jfk_bradp (340 words)

	JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE P.T. 109 - Autograph
		Original 1964 First Day Cover honoring Kennedy's heroism after his boat, the P.T. 109, was rammed into by the Japanese destroyer, Amagiri, during World War II.
		Issued by the British Solomon Islands after Kennedy's assassination, this cover includes imprinted illustration of the P.T. 109 and the British Solomon Islands as well as a handwritten inscription signed by Katsumari Yamashiro, a senior officer on the Amagiri the night of the incident.
		Inscription: "Captain Yamashiro, Commander of 11th Destroyer Flotilla and Senior Officer on board the Amagiri, actually commanding the boat himself on the night of the collision with the PT109."
	www.argosybooks.com /-autographs/-KLs/Kennedy_JF_PT109.html (99 words)

	John F. Kennedy's Naval Career
		Although the Japanese destroyer had not realized that their ship had struck an enemy vessel, the damage to PT 109 was severe.
		Although they were only one hundred yards from the floating piece, in the dark it took Kennedy three hours to tow McMahon and help Harris back to the PT hulk.
		Because the remnant was listing badly and starting to swamp, Kennedy decided to swim for a small island barely visible (actually three miles) to the southeast.
	navysite.de /cvn/cv67name.htm (1290 words)

	Exhibit Announcement: JFK in World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Commanding the Patrol Torpedo Craft (PT) USS PT 109, Lieutenant, Junior Grade, John Kennedy and his crew participated in the early campaigns in the Allies’ long struggle to roll back the Japanese from their conquests throughout the island chains of the Pacific Ocean.
		The role of the small but fast PT boats was to attack the Japanese shipping known as the "Tokyo Express" that supplied Japanese troops in the islands, and to support U.S. Army and Marine Corps attacking the Japanese on shore.
		An oil painting of the collision of PT 109 and the Japanese destroyer Amagiri by an official U.S. Navy artist;
	www.jfklibrary.org /pr_jfk_in_ww2_exhibit.html (0 words)

	JFK's PT-109 Found, U.S. Navy Confirms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		PT-109 sank in the Solomon Islands when a Japanese destroyer sliced through it, setting into motion the survival odyssey that became a cornerstone of the Kennedy legend.
		Survivors, fearing Japanese attack and sinking of bow, swim for deserted atoll later named Kennedy Island (see map).
		Islanders fear JFK and Ross are Japanese, paddle to Olasana.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/07/0709_020710_kennedyPT109.html (1038 words)

	Bibliographic Data: PT 109: John F. Kennedy in WWII
		Bob Donovan has written the definitive story of my brother's heroic efforts to save his crew in 1943 after their torpedo boat was cut in half by a Japanese destroyer, near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.
		In the early morning darkness of August 2, 1943, in the waters of Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri sliced an American PT boat in two, leaving its crew for dead in a flaming sea.
		The result is both a gripping tale of wartime heroism and a fascinating portrait of one of the United States' greatest leaders as a young man.
	doi.contentdirections.com /mr/mgh_biblio.jsp?doi=10.1036/0071376437 (760 words)

	‘The Search for Kennedy’s PT-109’ - National Geographic Ultimate Explorer - MSNBC.com
		Kennedy and the 10 surviving members of his crew floated on the badly damaged hulk until daybreak and then swam some four miles to Plum Pudding Island.
		Deep in Japanese territory, the American sailors subsisted mainly on coconuts for nearly a week before being rescued.
		Kennedy spent one night swimming in the ocean, hoping to flag a passing U.S. patrol boat while dodging the Japanese.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3404667/832135.asp (810 words)

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