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President Kennedy examines a model of the PT 109 in the Oval Office
Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. 
very good condition some traces of wear 

Elliott Erwitt (b. 26 July 1928 Paris) is an American photographer.
With his Russian emigre parents, he spent ten years of his childhood in Europe, notably in Italy, Germany and France before his parents emigrated in 1938 to the United States, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles in 1941 .

Robert Capa will be one of the first to notice him, he invited him to become a member of the Magnum agency. Agency that he will chair a few years later.
He photographed both Europe and the United States, children and dogs, stars with satirical humour. He also produced numerous TV comedy shows. He sais "Make people laugh is one of the most perfect successes you could hope"  His photography in the USA. North Carolina has become an icon of segregation.

John F. KENNEDY examines a model of PT 109, the patrol boat he fled during the Second World War, in the South Pacific, in the US Navy in the Solomon Islands, which sank after a collision with a Japanese ship ‘Amagiri’. 
Kennedy point its position at the wheel at the time of the collision; he was thrown against the rear of the cockpit.
 Patrol Torpedo Craft (PT) USS PT 109, was commanded by Lieutenant, John f.Kennedy.
 With his crew they participated in the first campaigns in the long struggle of the Allies to bring back the Japanese from their conquests in the channels of the Pacific ocean. The role of small boats PT fast was to attack Japanese shipping known as the "Tokyo Express" that provided Japanese troops in the Islands and to support the U.S. Army and marine Corps by attacking the Japanese down. 

On August 2, 1943, while PT 109 was silent to avoid detection, he was struck by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. Traveling at 40 knots, the destroyer cut PT 109 in two. The entire crew was thrown into the dark waters. Kennedy towed McMahon injured crew member to 4 miles in a small island to the Southeast. All eleven survivors arrived at the island after spending a total of fifteen hours in the water. After four days on the island, with the help of a message on a coconut carried by local islanders to an Australian spy on the Japanese, they were finally rescued on August 8.

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Original press photo - gelatin silver print, black and white on glossy paper - annotations overleaf - unknown date

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