Eric Morris
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- 31. The Swordfish Story Oct 3, 1958
- The USS Swordfish looks to anchor where the enemy is stashing airbase supplies.
The Silent Service: With Thomas M. Dykers, Eric Morris, Robert Knapp, Ron Foster. Documentary dramatic anthology about the US Navy's submarine fleet. All stories were based on fact and the realism was heightened by actual use of combat footage from the files of the Navy.
- (163)
- 1957-04-05
- Action, War
- 30
Jun 3, 2024 · The so-called “Silent Service”, or the U.S. Navy’s World War II submarine fleet, annihilated Japan’s shipping and navy in only four years. Jun 3, 2024 • By Matt Whittaker, BA History & Asian Studies. Big guns thinking dominated the 1930s U.S. Navy. The era of the battleship carried on as it had since before the Great War, with even ...
This gripping film from 1957, "The Silent Service" shows submarine warfare in the Pacific theater of WW2. Submariners played a heavy role in decimating the J...
- 37 min
- 75.9K
- PeriscopeFilm
Jul 25, 2016 · Another Japanese vessel falls prey to a American submarine. The U.S. Navy’s ‘silent service’ was instrumental in the Allied victory in the Pacific. (Image source: WikiCommons) “While conventional wisdom holds that the atomic bombs ended the Pacific War, it was America’s blockade of Japan that brought the empire to its knees.”
The Navy's submariners are all volunteers, carefully tested and screened and able to perform any job aboard, including steering the massive boat. During World War II, U.S. submarines sank more Japanese ships than did U.S. surface vessels and planes, but at a high cost: a twenty percent casualty rate.
Oct 16, 2022 · On the hunt for a Japanese convoy, the crew of the USS Gato discovers that an unexploded enemy depth charge has landed on its deck. Aired June 27, 1957
- 26 min
- 79
- Wayne Boone
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BACKSTORY: In World War II, the American submarine force was inordinately small—just 252 total boats, compared to the more than 1,100 deployed by Germany and over 600 built by Japan. Yet, the American subs, most of which saw service in the Pacific, accounted for 54.6 percent of all Japanese naval and merchant ships sunk.
