United States Army Forces in the Far East
This act called for the creation, by 1946, of a force of thirty-six fast torpedo boats (PT) as part of the Philippine Army. These were to be British-designed torpedo boats, with a speed of forty-one knots; they were to be armed with two torpedo tubes and built by British shipbuilders. Only two of the boats were delivered by 1939, at which point the war in Europe curtailed any further supply. By October 1941, a third torpedo boat had been assembled locally. The squadron was attached to United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE), which had assumed overall control of military forces in the Philippines; and added two additional patrol boats (non-torpedo).