This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

I welcome Gordon Chang at Gordon T. Chang, my colleague and co-host, as we head to the Philippine Islands, Palawan Island, on the South China Sea shore, and a movie once upon a time, I highly

recommend to everyone, especially if you're under 40. They were expendable based upon a book

written in published in 1942 about PT boats, the famous PT boats that were based out of the Philippines, Coveite,

was the port at the time of the movie, that were left behind as the Navy withdrew from the Philippines

as the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy advanced towards Baton and then overwhelming Corrigador

and taking all of the Philippines in early

1942. However, by that time, the P.T. Boats had proved their worth being extremely

effective against Japanese destroyers and other craft coming down into the Philippines.

83 years later, the reason John mentions the John Ford 1954 movie with John Wayne

and Robert Montgomery is that the U.S. Navy is announcing a return to something like a PT

boat.

They now call them attack boats.

And to help us understand why the Navy's made this choice.

Boy, what a lucky assignment this is out of Annapolis,

is Jim Fennell, Captain James Finnell,

United States Navy retired intelligence officer.

He's in Europe, but he can fill in the parts that I can't imagine about an attack boat based out of Palawan Island on the shore of the South China Sea,

given the tension there is between the PRC's PLA Navy and the U.S. Navy.

Jim, a very good evening to you.

It's been some time since I spoke of the Palawan Island.

This looks to be aggressive. What is, what is the

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