Editing Robert Ballard (section)

====''PT-109''====
In 2002, the [[National Geographic Society]] and Ballard fielded a ship with remote vehicles to the [[Solomon Islands]]. They succeeded in finding a torpedo tube and the forward section from the shipwreck of [[John F. Kennedy]]'s ''[[Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109|PT-109]]'' which was rammed in 1943 by the Japanese destroyer ''Amagiri'' off [[Ghizo Island]].<ref name="National Geographic">[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0709_020710_kennedyPT109.html "JFK's PT-109 Found, U.S. Navy Confirms"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819023530/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0709_020710_kennedyPT109.html |date=August 19, 2012 }}.</ref> The visit also brought to light the identity of islanders [[Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana]] who had received little recognition for finding the shipwrecked crew after searching for days in their [[dugout canoe]]. A TV special and a book were produced, and Ballard spoke at the [[John F. Kennedy Library]] in 2005.{{citation_needed|date=August 2019}}