Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei pene - I riro i a Huckins tana kirimana hoahoa i te 1941, i te wa e rite ana te Navy ki te whakakore i te kaupapa PT, me te raihana i te whakamahinga o te anga Quadraconic i roto i te hanga poti PT. I whakawhiwhia hoki e ratou te whakaaetanga ki a Elco, Higgins me te Philadelphia Navy Yard ki te whakamahi i to raatau whaimana whaimana, i whakapiki ake i te kaha o te anga. He 18 nga poti 78-waewae (24 mita) mo nga squadrons 14 me 26 i tukuna i te timatanga o te 1943. I tohaina rātau ki ngā wāhi motuhake i te Canal o Panama
, Miami, Florida, te Hawaiian Sea Frontier i Pearl Harbor, i te Central Pacific, me tetahi pokapū whakangungu i Melville, Rhode Island.