Kennedy was famous for his bravery on Navy PT109.

Navy ID Card of John Kennedy

US Navy: American unloading in Normandy: The guns of a battleship ram the dimension Norman within the framework of the shootings of preparation.p012724

Navy Ship Shelling Normandy Coast

Lieutenant James Holt Green, United States Naval Reserve, was leader of Company B, 2677th Regiment, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during the DAWES mission to Slovakia in order to rescue downed American airmen and provide assistance to the Slovakian Uprising

The OSS men were captured by the Germans and sent to  Mauthausen concentration camp.  On January 26, 1945 SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Georg Bachmayer murdered the 10 OSS prisoners, the bodies were then cremated.