The USS Crevalle (SS-291) on war patrols in East China Sea and Sea of Japan in final days of World War II. Crew members hold a flag they made depicting their engagements with Japanese shipping. It shows Japanese Navy Rising Sun flag with marks below for five Japanese Navy ships. It also shows the Japanese Red Ball flag and fourteen marks for other Japanese ships. As the film continues, it reveals more of the flag, showing more encounters with enemy shipping. A Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) passing by. Sailors standing on deck in bright sunlight with breeze blowing. One of the sailors is drinking from a mug. Sailor Robert Schwarz has grown a notable full beard and smokes a pipe. Toward the end of the film, the boat's Captain, Navy Captain Everett Hartwell Steinmetz, is seen from the back and in profile, standing on deck. Another aircraft passes overhead. (Note: Sailors holding flag in opening frames has been identified as James A. Katchis who served on the boat beginning as a Seaman 1st Class in August 1944 and Robert Schwarz of St. Louis, MO)
U.S. sailors and officers at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Sailors and officers at the dock. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Charles Andrews Lockwood saluting the officers stepping aboard the dock. Buildings in the background. Officers discussing amongst themselves.
U.S. submarine underway in the Pacific Ocean. Lookout watching through binoculars. Lookouts shifting to another vantage point. They watch enemy actions through binoculars. (World War II period).
U.S. submarine underway in the Pacific Ocean. Officers standing on the deck of submarine. They talk amongst themselves. Another submarine sailing along the broadside. U.S. Navy PBY Catalina in flight overhead. Small Japanese flags flying on the conning tower. A U.S. flag flying atop the conning tower. PBY Catalina in flight. Man looking through binoculars on bridge. Bow of the submarine.
USS Tinosa underway in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander R C Latham on the deck of the submarine. He looks through binoculars. Sailors aboard USS Tinosa. A sailor stands wearing glasses. Other sailor watching through binoculars and a sailor smokes cigarette.
U.S. sailors and officers on dock in the United States. Officers stepping aboard a submarine. They shake hands with U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Charles Andrews Lockwood. Officers discussing amongst themselves. U.S. flag flying atop a flag pole in the background.
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