Isole Salomone - Inglese

Honour for islander who saved JFK from sharks and Japanese

[Times - World]

An elderly villager in the Solomon Islands, one of the poorest and most remote corners of the Pacific, has been honoured by the United States Navy for a crucial, but little remembered, contribution to world history – the day, 64 years ago, when he saved the life of the future American president John F. Kennedy.