While documenting how PT boats were transported overseas, the photographer unknowingly pictured what was to become the most famous one of the war, PT-109. As deck cargo, it was first delivered to Noumea, then towed to Guadalcanal. A young Lt.jg, John F. Kennedy, took command of her in April, 1943. Almost a year exactly after this picture was snapped, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri, part of the Tokyo Express, returning to Rabaul from delivering troops to Vila, Kolombangara on the night of August 1-2, 1943, rammed, cut in two, and sank the PT-109 at 1:30 AM in the Blacket Strait.