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I get the feeling there's been too much of the Kennedy's here lately but nevertheless I'm curious.
In August 1943, Military Torpedo Boat PT-109 (under the command of Lieutenaunt Kennedy) was cut in half by a collision with a Japanese destroyer. Two men were killed and two more seriously injured but Kennedy and the remainder of the crew swam to safety.
Simple enough POD. Kennedy is killed somehow in the collision.