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The incident was dramatized in the 1963 movie PT 109, which starred Cliff Robertson in the lead role as a young JFK. Patrol torpedo boats, such as the PT 109, had mahogany hulls.

The night of Aug. 2, 1943, John F. Kennedy, later the nation’s 35th and youngest president, and a handful of crewmen survived the PT boat’s collision with a Japanese destroyer in the strait.

It was also previously done as a film with Cliff Robertson playing JFK in PT 109 in 1963. “It’s an honor to be on board this project with the fantastic producing team at MadRiver,” said Gray.