Lt. Arthur Preston and his PT boat crews did whatever it took to save a downed Navy airman in the South Pacific.

JFK’s heroic actions earned him the Navy and Marine Corps ... paint scheme used by her fellow PT boats in the Western Pacific theater during World War II. PT-109 arrived in the Solomon Islands ...

He is one of only two PT boat crewmen awarded his country’s highest honor during WWII. Preston retired from the Navy as a commander in 1953 and worked as a banker thereafter, before his death on ...