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    . . . that this great TV series I used to watch with my father when I was about four or five years old is now available on Youtube. Here's the link to "The Silent Service" and the entire video playlist. It's worth a look for history buffs. All factual, as the guy in charge wouldn't have it any other way.

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    Very interesting but the accents used in these old US programmes just crack me up.
    For Gallifrey! For Victory! For the end of time itself!!

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    • #3
      Originally posted by bolo121 View Post
      Very interesting but the accents used in these old US programmes just crack me up.
      Who, like Tom Dykers? Pure Orleans Parish that one.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by desertswo View Post
        Who, like Tom Dykers? Pure Orleans Parish that one.
        No just that stiff super crisp way everyone including the narrator talks.
        For Gallifrey! For Victory! For the end of time itself!!

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        • #5
          Added to my favorites ....

          Originally posted by desertswo View Post
          . . . that this great TV series I used to watch with my father when I was about four or five years old is now available on Youtube. Here's the link to "The Silent Service" and the entire video playlist. It's worth a look for history buffs. All factual, as the guy in charge wouldn't have it any other way.
          On a cold winter night this is exactly the diversion needed ..... :pop:

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          • #6
            Exactly when did this show up? I never missed an episode Victory at Sea but never saw this show at all till now. Only looked at one so far, the Pampanito, and immediately saw Richard Crenna.

            I've been aboard Pampanito a couple of times and as one would expect it is a tight boat with space being precious. So I can just imagine what the boat was like during this rescue.
            Last edited by tbm3fan; 28 Dec 14,, 03:21.

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            • #7
              Enjoying this TV series .....

              This television series didn't get picked up locally when it originally aired here in the Great Plains.
              But I am enjoying muchly. Just finished the 4th episode with Dr. Benjamin McCoy from the Starship Enterprise .... ;)

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              • #8
                Originally posted by blidgepump View Post
                This television series didn't get picked up locally when it originally aired here in the Great Plains.
                But I am enjoying muchly. Just finished the 4th episode with Dr. Benjamin McCoy from the Starship Enterprise .... ;)
                Sorry, but you triggered my full high school teacher correction response mode. "Bones'" given name was "Leonard."

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                • #9
                  Old fleder carb .....

                  Thank goodness someone is manning the safety valve ....

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by tbm3fan View Post
                    Exactly when did this show up? I never missed an episode Victory at Sea but never saw this show at all till now. Only looked at one so far, the Pampanito, and immediately saw Richard Crenna.
                    According to Wikipedia, it ran one season in 1957 on NBC, but one they list 78 episodes for a "season." Given how there are only 52 weeks per year, I'm not at all certain how they worked that detail out. I was born in May of 1956, and I believe I said I was somewhere between four and six years old when I watched the show way back when. I am certain about my age being four or so when we first started watching (that was also about the time when I first remember seeing Victory At Sea as well) at the time because I was born into one house in San Diego County and I remember watching the show on my Dad's lap in the living room of that house, and then we moved when I was about five to the house I essentially grew up in from the age of five to 22 when I got married and moved out for good. I have the ceramic hand print I made in the kindergarten of the public grammar school that served that neighborhood, and the date on the thing is 1961. I watched the show in the living room of that "new" house as well, along with Victory At Sea and the original Biography produced by David L. Wolper and hosted by a young Mike Wallace. That was when they did biographies of people that mattered like Winston Churchill and Gandhi and not freaking losers like Lindsey Lohan. I don't recall seeing Silent Service after about the first grade. As I said, I was seeing reruns, possibly only shown on local TV, and me growing up most of the year in San Diego, you can imagine how such a show might be popular there given the ties that much of the population had to the Navy/Marine Corps team.

                    Originally posted by tbm3fan View Post
                    I've been aboard Pampanito a couple of times and as one would expect it is a tight boat with space being precious. So I can just imagine what the boat was like during this rescue.
                    It was even tighter than you imagine. You know one of the things they did to ensure that food was not the limiting factor on the length of patrols in WWII was to stack canned goods, at least one layer deep (occasionally more than one, depending on the content . . . one might imagine that coffee was stacked fairly deep) on the decks, and then covering that layer with sheets of plywood. So the guys working around the attack plot in the control room might be standing on a layer of pork and beans. You might have the occasional ham or whatever hanging from the overhead like they show in Das Boot but our Fleet Boats were a bit roomier (90 feet longer and seven feet wider) than the German Type VII U-Boat that ran wild in the Atlantic, so our guys didn't have to do quite as much of that stowing of smoked and salted meats and meat by-products . . . like scrapple . . . EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! . . . hither and yon.



                    One of the things I learned from a family friend who was an old submariner from way back is that sailors hate powdered eggs. Logistics being as good as they are these days, I was never subjected to them at sea. Thank God!! In any event the hatred of the crew for powdered eggs caused the submarine supply officers and leading Mess Specialist (that's a "cook" to you and me boys and girls) to learn approved methods for storing fresh eggs. What was done was that each egg, in shell of course, was dipped in liquid paraffin, and then the gross of eggs stored un-refrigerated in various out of the way places (of which there are very few). Apparently the paraffin seals the shell so that bacteria cannot gain access to the surface of the shell and then penetrate it, as they apparently so easily do. Anyway, it eliminates, or at least minimizes things like Salmonella poisoning, and prolongs the period of fresh eggs for breakfast for the crew, and of peace in the valley for Cookie.

                    Regardless, you cannot really grasp how crowded one of those boats was because even well produced shows like Silent Service don't do it justice. My Dad talked some kid assigned to a GUPPY boat that had moored at the Fleet ASW School Pier where we were fishing (across Harbor Drive from the Naval Training Center and more or less next door to the Coast Guard Air Station on one side, and Shelter Island on the other) to take me on a tour of the boat. I had more or less free reign over USS Perch (APSS-313/LPSS-313), which was a Reserve Training Boat permanently moored at that same pier. Reserve crews would occasionally do drill weekends aboard her doing "fast cruises," In other words, pretend they were underway with all the bells and whistles, without ever leaving the pier. Otherwise, it was "manned" by one Petty Officer of Watch who sat in a heated guard shack on the quarterdeck, when not making regular tours as sounding and security watch. He slept on board after hours. I don't know if he shut the hatches (the one in the conning tower was always open during the day as was the one to the forward torpedo room) because we were never around then. Anyway, all of those guys got to know my dad and I, and allowed me to roam around so long as I didn't touch anything. I never raised the periscope for instance, nor started a diesel, although they ran and were set up to do so; and I NEVER pressed the button for that klaxon you always here when they dive in the movies. I wanted to hit that thing so badly it hurt. But I resisted and just looked. Interesting boat. If you've read "Blind Man's Bluff," she is mentioned as a special operations boat. In that mode, they had removed all of her torpedo tubes to make way for what were then called UDT guys and/or Marines and their gear.

                    Anyway, I was very familiar with the Fleet Boat, and how close things could be, but it didn't come close to preparing me for that nuts to butts situation on that fully operational fleet asset of a GUPPY Boat. I mean, guys were literally sleeping everywhere, with sheets hanging out of the "beat off curtains" (bet you never heard that colloquialism for bunk "privacy" curtains, have you?:red:), damp towels hanging all over the place, and good Lord, just stuff and people everywhere. It was kind of stanky too. US warships have a certain smell associated them; a melange of fuel oil, grease, pine oil, cooking smells, and occasionally some BO, but that did't come close to the funk in crew berthing of that boat. It was like a high school gym . . . on steroids! And how the hell do you get around? I know they probably had their fecal matter in one set of hosiery, but to the untrained eye, it appeared to be shear madness.

                    So that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by blidgepump View Post
                      Thank goodness someone is manning the safety valve ....
                      I know, if you don't do a blow down to 40PSI below the safety lift pressure, it could get real messy!!!

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by desertswo View Post
                        It was even tighter than you imagine. You know one of the things they did to ensure that food was not the limiting factor on the length of patrols in WWII was to stack canned goods, at least one layer deep (occasionally more than one, depending on the content . . . one might imagine that coffee was stacked fairly deep) on the decks, and then covering that layer with sheets of plywood. So the guys working around the attack plot in the control room might be standing on a layer of pork and beans. You might have the occasional ham or whatever hanging from the overhead like they show in Das Boot but our Fleet Boats were a bit roomier (90 feet longer and seven feet wider) than the German Type VII U-Boat that ran wild in the Atlantic, so our guys didn't have to do quite as much of that stowing of smoked and salted meats and meat by-products . . . like scrapple . . . EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! . . . hither and yon.
                        I have a German deli/smokehouse near me- Karl's Sausage kitchen- I think I'd prefer the smoked and salt meats over the pork and beans if it smelled anything like Karl's.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by desertswo View Post
                          . . . that this great TV series I used to watch with my father when I was about four or five years old is now available on Youtube. Here's the link to "The Silent Service" and the entire video playlist. It's worth a look for history buffs. All factual, as the guy in charge wouldn't have it any other way.
                          Thanks for posting the link. I have enjoyed watching many of those.

                          Some here might also be interested in the war patrol reports at the link below.

                          SUBMARINE WAR PATROL REPORTS

                          At the end of each war patrol of WW II, submarine commanders created a report on the patrol. These reports were used as the raw material to inform intelligence, improve tactics, evaluate commanders, etc. During WW II, over 1,550 patrol reports containing approximately 63,000 pages were generated. During the 1970s these were photographed and reproduced on microfilm to make them more easily accessible and easily reproduced (approx. 250 rolls). During 2008 a copy of this microfilm was scanned into digital format (110 GB), and in 2009 it was made available online here (14 GB).

                          These war patrol reports were written during a deadly, bitterly fought war. Please note that there may be some references to enemy forces that may be offensive in today's context...
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