U.S. submarines and ships at the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. USS Saratoga CV-3 aircraft carrier at distance at the harbor. A man with battle phones on the deck with other men. A motor boat underway. The SS tower in the background. Men at the dock. Building in the background. (World War II period).
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).
Low altitude aerial views from an aircraft circling the Dutch submarine, O 19, stranded on Ladd Reef, in the South China Sea, with bow raised high above water and stern submerged. Note: According to Klaas van der Veen,of the Netherlands, whose father was second in command on the O 19, the boat went aground while on the way to Subic Bay, Phillipines, on July 8, 1945 (July 7th East of the International Date Line). After three days trying to free the O 19 using full reverse power at high tide, blowing air, firing torpedoes, and jettisoning ballast, the crew was rescued by the U.S. submarine, USS Cod, which torpedoed the O 19, after all critical equipment had been removed.
Film begins showing Sailors aboard a U.S. surfaced submarine in the Pacific, during World War 2, as they fire at a nearby floating mine, which explodes raising a huge column of water. Next, they meet and proceed in parallel with another surfaces American submarine. Closeups of crew on the camera boat as they watch the other submarine as they both make way in rough water. Sailors on the other submarine crowd its conning tower and upper deck. Closeups of crew on camera boat heaving on a line that has been fired between the two submarines. The camera boat sends a large package across to the other submarine via the line.
Film begins with view of forward deck on a U.S. submarine in calm waters, during World War 2. A Japanese survivor of a sunken warship is seen on a raft of wreckage. The submarine positions itself and lowers lines that the Japanese sailor uses to board the American boat, where he is taken as a prisoner of war. Closeup of a three-masted Japanese boat that begins to raise some sail as it is being observed. The sailboat seen at some distance with empty masts and no sign of anyone on board. View of the deck gun on the deck of the submarine. It fires and causes the sailboat to explode.
A U.S. submarine underway in the Pacific Ocean. The submarine underway. Submarine submerging in water. Conning tower of the submarine. The periscope cutting through water. The submarine surfacing.
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