John F. Kennedy, is sunk off the Solomons by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri

August 2nd, 1943 - On this day in World War Two history, PT-109, commanded by future president Lt. John F. Kennedy, is sunk off the Solomons by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri; the survivors swim 4 hours to a deserted island. Also on this day, at the Treblinka concentration (death) camp, 200 Jews lead an armed revolt and burn buildings, but most are killed.

So the first of these instances, the one including John F. Kennedy, was a pretty typical occurrence in the Pacific theater, especially in 1943 when the Japanese were still very strong. 

The core combined Japanese fleet was destroyed decisively in June of 1942 at the Battle of Midway when all 4 of its fleet carriers at the battle were sunk by US Dauntless Dive Bombers.

However, the Japanese were not done yet. They had lost only a few of their outer territories, and they intended to fight back.

I also just really enjoy stories with JFK in them because it's interesting to see a future US president in the pits and hells of war.

The other occurrence today is a lot more dark. The thing many Jews often contemplated while at concentration camps was whether or not to rise up in armed rebellion against their oppressors. Many times it did not occur, especially through 1940-1943, when Germany was still immensely powerful, but these prisoners had had enough.

200 would not be enough though, as Treblinka was an immense installation that employed many well armed guards.

But, Treblinka was also a death camp, meaning that if these prisoners did not rise up, they had a large chance of being either killed of disease, firing squad, beatings and torture, or in the gas chamber. 

(NOTE: around 1 million Jews died at Treblinka. To put that in perspective, 1.1 million Jews died at Auschwitz)

None of these options were painless, and disease/gassing were particularly "uncomfortable" to say the least.

Therefore, either way they had high chance to die, and thus leading a revolt was not actually that bad of an idea because either they ousted the Germans or they died via bullet, which was much more preferable to the other alternatives. The revolt was indeed put down, and most of the rebellious prisoners were killed.

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