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Back at the American PT base on Rendova, the crew of the PT 109 had already been giving up for dead. It would be a week before the men were rescued. With just two pistols between the 11 of them, and zero food, Kennedy and his men were beached in hostile territory on an island with no fresh water and only green coconuts hanging high in the palm trees. READ MORE: How JFK's Stint as a WWII Journalist Influenced His Presidency When he finally crawled ashore Plum Pudding island, Kennedy became violently ill from all of the seawater he had swallowed and collapsed in exhaustion. For the next four to five hours, JFK swam breaststroke across the open ocean towing McMahon behind him. In what’s perhaps the most enduring image of Kennedy’s heroism in the South Pacific, the young lieutenant, himself suffering from a serious back injury, cut a strap from McMahon’s life jacket and clasped it in his teeth. McMahon’s burns were still fresh and agonizing. He pointed to a speck on the horizon, a small island three miles away called Plum Pudding, and ordered the men to prepare for a long swim.
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In his short time in the Solomon Islands, he knew the layout of the islands and the strange currents running in between them. JFK may have been a greenhorn Naval officer, but he was an experienced sailor and navigator from his privileged youth in Cape Cod.