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Navy Log is an American television drama anthology series created by Samuel Gallu that presented stories from the history of the United States Navy.
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00:00Hello Father, come to save,
00:16cruisers are named for cities, this is the Albany, and like her namesake, full of Americans,
00:37some recent, some of long standing, and one very, very new with an awful lot to learn.
00:44His name is Demosthenes, really.
00:48Why did he join the Navy after only seven months in America?
00:52Here are his actual words as he wrote them in a letter to the Navy Department.
00:55I select the Navy because back in Greece, I watch many American ships visit the Portobolos.
01:03I like the ships because they look very clean and very smart.
01:07I like more the sailors.
01:09In town, on Liberty, they were clean, happy, smart, kind gentlemen.
01:16Hey, Grick.
01:17What do you want, Feeny?
01:18You gonna hole up on the letter to home bed again?
01:21What else I got to do?
01:22Liberty, man.
01:23We're on Liberty in a half hour.
01:24Liberty and Leghorn.
01:25And Finelli here speaks the language.
01:26Quick, we got it made in this port.
01:27So what do you want with me?
01:28Join the party.
01:29No, better I stay on ship.
01:30Oh come on, kid, all work and no play makes jack, but it don't make you no time with the girls.
01:41No, no, all you think about is girls.
01:43Let me stay, let me be on the ship.
01:45I am glad the Navy has sent me to 6th Fleet in Mediterranean because it brings me so close
02:00to Greece.
02:01But as for understanding Americans, figuring out my shipmates, I'm still puzzled.
02:07Maybe it will take something pretty big for me to understand.
02:15Time, 1600, 19 April, 1955, place, USS Albany in Port Leghorn, Italy, duty, standby for Liberty
02:29Party.
02:30You know, Finale, maybe we're making a mistake.
02:42I swear the kid looks like the Rhone power.
02:44Yeah, the tomatoes are going to go for him and leave us out in the freeze.
02:48Then I spoil your liberty.
02:50I stay.
02:51Not fair I spoil your chance.
02:52Forget it, kid.
02:53Now I tell you what.
02:54We'll all go over the gangplank together and once we hit Spaghetti Land, uh, well now what
03:00did I do?
03:01Pasquale.
03:02What did I do?
03:03What did I say now?
03:04It's me.
03:05I've never seen anyone so sensitive.
03:07You, Finale.
03:08He say Spaghetti Land.
03:09How do you let him say like that about Italia?
03:11The land of Roman law, Julius Caesar, beautiful land.
03:16So?
03:17So?
03:18Italy is your land.
03:19Oh, so that's it.
03:21Look, kid, Pittsburgh is my land.
03:23Just like Wilmington is Fini's land, not Dublin.
03:26And Evanston is Schmidt's land, not Berlin.
03:29Forget that, Rick.
03:30Where you or your folks came from don't signify.
03:32Where you're from, uh, where are you from?
03:35Volus, in Greece.
03:36No, no, no, no.
03:37Back in the States.
03:38I live in Minneapolis.
03:40Minneapolis?
03:42Minneapolis.
03:43Polus in Greek means city.
03:45Minneapolis to you means home.
03:47You've got your first papers and you're in the United States Navy.
03:50From now on, when somebody asks you where you're from, you say Minneapolis, not Volus.
03:54Volus?
03:55Molus, Molus, Minneapolis, Minneapolis.
03:57That's not the point.
03:59The point is, from now on, you've got to think of yourself as an American.
04:02From your dandruff down to your bunions.
04:04Then tell me one thing, one time, please.
04:06All right, one thing, one time.
04:08Sure, go ahead.
04:09Why you call me Greek?
04:11Why everybody call me Greek?
04:13Why does the exec call me Irish?
04:15Why do they call Schmitty Dutchman?
04:16Why do they call LeBroad Frenchie?
04:18Why do they call Gustafsson Swede?
04:20Why...
04:23Now you come to think of it.
04:25Why do we?
04:26Well, you've got to admit, there are differences.
04:28Sure, that's what makes horse races.
04:30Yeah, but in horse race, somebody win, somebody lose.
04:34Some better than others.
04:36No, nobody's any better than the others.
04:38Understand that?
04:39I ask you.
04:40How will I understand Americans if Americans all mixed up themselves, eh?
04:44No.
04:45You go on liberty, I stay on ship.
04:48Figure things out, write my letter.
04:50So what's the matter now?
04:51Look, for the last time, are you coming on liberty with us or not?
04:54Not.
04:56Anyway, I can't.
04:58What's the excuse now?
04:59No excuse for truth.
05:02I have no money.
05:04Honest.
05:05Not just to get out of liberty with everybody.
05:07I send all my money home to Volus.
05:09I mean to my father's home in Volus.
05:13Honest.
05:15It's true.
05:18I only spoil your fun anyway.
05:20I don't understand you yet.
05:22Crazy kid.
05:24Crazy, crazy kid.
05:26A sailor without liberty, though.
05:28All right, fellas.
05:29Let's get it up.
05:30Let's go, boys.
05:31Let's get it up.
05:32Well, come on.
05:33Come on, put the money in.
05:33Annie up.
05:34Here we go.
05:35That's fine.
05:36Okay, fellas.
05:37Here, put that in.
05:38There you are, kid.
05:39I cannot accept.
05:42The Mostanistamos is no beggar.
05:47Did I take something wrong way again?
05:49You sure did.
05:50I tell you, everybody is crazy nuts.
05:53It's like little Greek girl with flour.
05:55Sazagapo, then sazagapo.
05:57Sazagapo, then sazagapo.
05:59He loved me, he loved me not.
06:00He loved me, he loved me not.
06:02This is the captain speaking.
06:04Liberty is canceled.
06:05Set the special C detail.
06:08Hey, he's not kidding.
06:09That was the old man himself.
06:11There goes my liberty.
06:12Further details will be given you
06:14as we are made aware of them.
06:16Meantime, our orders are to proceed to Greece.
06:20Greece?
06:23Is trouble in my home?
06:25My father's land, I mean?
06:27I mean?
06:32Here you go.
06:51Hey, Schmitty, where is the Greek?
06:53Up forward.
06:54What is up there for Pete's sake?
06:55Nothing.
06:57The way he figures it,
06:58he is that much closer to Greece.
06:59All alone?
07:02Yeah, I guess so.
07:03Hey, where's Feeney?
07:04I think he went to see Lieutenant Barnum.
07:06Now hear this.
07:08Buster fire and rescue parties and call away working parties.
07:12All hands not on watch will assist in breaking out emergency medical and food stores.
07:25All right, Irish. I'll see what I can do.
07:27Just one thing, sir. Don't tell him I told you.
07:31Been any trouble between you two?
07:33Well, more of a misunderstanding.
07:35We kind of forget he's only been an American for six months.
07:38Guy's been riding him?
07:39Only kidding.
07:40The thing is, he don't understand Americans, sir.
07:44Yeah, many people don't.
07:47Take us, for instance.
07:48Here's a man of war under the gunwales.
07:51Anybody who didn't know or think we're going off to fight a war instead of going on a mission of mercy?
07:55Mercy? You mean it's not war?
07:58War?
07:59Irish, where have you been?
08:00Making my way to your office, sir.
08:02I must have missed the latest info.
08:05Yeah, Irish, I guess you did.
08:07And the kid probably thinks,
08:09Sir, now you've got to find him.
08:18Stay, miss.
08:20Who tell you I'm here, sir?
08:22Your friends.
08:23Greek got no friends on ship.
08:25Sure you have.
08:26You've got a thousand of them on board.
08:27I don't understand, sir.
08:30Well, it's true.
08:31Every man on this ship is your friend.
08:33Right now we're on a mercy mission to your native land.
08:36War?
08:37We are attacked?
08:38No, it's not a war, Stamos.
08:41It's kind of a natural catastrophe.
08:44Fire?
08:45Flood?
08:45What?
08:47Earthquake.
08:48Look, Stamos, we're getting all of our information in bits and pieces.
08:52Where do you come from?
08:54Volos.
08:55Seaport city of Volos.
08:58Volos was mentioned in the last wireless.
09:00It seems to be right in the middle of the quake area.
09:03My family.
09:05My friends.
09:06My home.
09:07Everything.
09:09Look, we're doing 25 knots.
09:12When we get there, we'll do everything we can.
09:14And nobody can do any more.
09:15Time, 46 hours at 25 knots later.
09:27Place, Volos Greece.
09:30Duty, offload relief supplies.
09:33I wonder if we're going to get liberty here.
09:35We got it coming.
09:36Yeah, to say nothing of the extra work.
09:41Hey, kid.
09:42You called me?
09:44Yeah.
09:44Listen, kid, in case we get liberty here, this being your hometown and all that,
09:48how's about interpreting for me with the local tomatoes?
09:50Yeah, maybe he's got a sister.
09:52At least a cousin.
09:53What do you say, kid?
09:54Me?
09:54I should help you?
09:55Sure.
09:55All your hats, boys.
09:57We're off again.
09:58You off, all right.
09:59You off the beam, you both this time.
10:02Girls, babes, tomatoes everywhere.
10:05Okay.
10:06Okay.
10:07Out there in Velos is trouble.
10:09Homes fall down.
10:10People lose everything.
10:12Oh, kid.
10:13Come off it.
10:14And you think just like always.
10:17Don't you got no heart?
10:18Oh, take it easy, kid.
10:20It ain't as if the place is a total wreck.
10:22Why, I seen quakes worse than us in L.A.
10:25And they practically didn't even make the papers.
10:27But in L.A. is not leaving my parents, my sister.
10:30Yes, I have sister.
10:33And in L.A. is not my home.
10:35Well, from the damage report we got from the shore parties, things ain't so bad there.
10:38You ain't going to calm him down, Nunfini.
10:45He won't believe they're safe till he sees with his own eyes.
10:47So is it my fault he drew ship detail instead of shore party?
10:51Say, I bet.
10:54Sure, the kid thinks I stuck him with the detail here and kept him from going ashore.
10:59Later.
10:59Uh-oh.
11:02Here it comes.
11:04Stamos, I have a little news about your family.
11:06They're all right.
11:07Thank the good Lord.
11:08Yeah.
11:09The house is pretty badly shaken, but it's still standing.
11:12What's more, if you check in with your O.D., he'll pass you short.
11:15Take off, sir.
11:16You're supposed to be asleep, you hear?
11:36I am waiting for Timos to come.
11:38I want to be awake when Timos comes.
11:41He will come, Pulakimos.
11:43Go to see me, Pulakimos.
11:47Mama.
11:50You see what you do?
11:52My son will come.
11:55Mama, for a thousandth time in the United States Navy are two.
12:00Two million men.
12:01Eight, nine, ten thousand ship.
12:03You expect that the one ship in Volos Harbor is his?
12:07Mama, forget it.
12:09Let us be thankful to God he is not here.
12:13What kind of thing is that to say?
12:15I mean that in the last big...
12:18Last big earthquake, there is also calm like now.
12:24And then another quake.
12:26The second, the worst.
12:29At least he is out of danger.
12:36Mama.
12:36Mama, you two, sleep while there is still roof over our heads.
12:41Is there going to be more?
12:42No.
12:51Oh, my God.
12:53Oh, my God.
12:54Papa.
12:55It was always so good to have you home, Timos.
12:58Oh, my God.
12:59Oh, my God.
12:59Oh, my God.
13:00Oh, my God.
13:00Oh, my God.
13:01Oh, my God.
13:01Oh, my God.
13:02You've grown.
13:04So, two million men, ten thousand ships.
13:07Oh, but he comes.
13:09Timos, sit down.
13:10Sit down.
13:11Tell us about America.
13:12Tell us about the Navy.
13:14Did you tell the captain to send the help?
13:17Oh, my God.
13:18Ah, this is my dessert.
13:29This bread is like cake to me.
13:30They don't feed you well in the Navy.
13:33Believe me, Mama, they feed me well.
13:34One thing you not tell, my son.
13:36What?
13:37What have I forgotten?
13:37Your friends.
13:39Among the men on the ship, you must have friends.
13:41We'd be happy to welcome them to our home such as it is.
13:44I'll see, Father.
13:46Well, you have friends, eh?
13:47Of course.
13:49I have my shipmates on the Albany.
13:51Nice American boys, huh?
13:53How I would love to see them.
13:55Me, too.
13:56Tell me about them.
13:58Sure.
13:59Nice American boys.
14:01Let me see.
14:02There's Irish and Fadeli, Pasquale Fadeli, and Swede, and Frenchy, and the Dutchman.
14:12Really, those are their nicknames.
14:14I don't understand.
14:16Believe me, Mama.
14:17It is hard for me to understand them, too.
14:20Always joking.
14:22And sometimes making fun of me.
14:23What they call you, eh?
14:25Not Timosthenes.
14:26You can be sure of that.
14:27Stamos?
14:28No.
14:30What then?
14:32Sometimes kid.
14:34Sometimes Greek.
14:35What does this mean, Greek?
14:37It is the English word for our people.
14:40It is the English word for our people.
14:40For Hellenies.
14:42Oh, it's all right.
14:44It takes time to understand strangers.
14:46Only...
14:47Only...
14:48I don't know.
14:49Temos.
14:51Temos.
14:51Tell.
14:52Temosthenes.
14:53Tell.
14:55If it is on your mind, in your heart, tell it out.
14:57it will be best.
15:01It is just that I want to be one of them.
15:04I want them to believe me one of them.
15:08I do not want to be different,
15:10to stand out among my shipmates for my way of speaking,
15:13for my place of birth.
15:16I want to be one with the others,
15:19to have them accept me.
15:21Femos.
15:23Femos.
15:24To be accepted.
15:26You must accept.
15:28Perhaps they are trying to help you,
15:31and you are holding back something of yourself from them.
15:36I do not know.
15:38Think.
15:39And now,
15:40for the men of the family Stamos,
15:43a little metaxas.
15:44I am sorry, father.
15:45I have to get back to my ship.
15:47Ah.
15:48The ship is the sailor's home.
15:57And I never got to meet that sister of yours.
16:24Here is Radio Stuttgart.
16:26The Bundeskanzler Adenauer
16:27teilte heute mit
16:28das in vorbereitung der künftigen Konferenz
16:30der vier Außenministern.
16:31German-French, it's all Greek to me.
16:43And the Dodgers tonight continue their amazing winning streak
16:46by extending their lead to 13 games.
16:50Now you're talking.
16:50This is for them 11 games in front of the New York Giants,
16:53with Don Newcomb winning his sixth straight game.
16:56And that's the top of the news, folks,
16:57from the Armed Forces Radio Munich,
17:00the voice of the GI in Europe.
17:03Hey, leave it on, please.
17:05Well, you heard him, kid.
17:06That's all.
17:07Yeah, but he say the top of the news.
17:09Yeah.
17:10So, maybe at the bottom,
17:11he tell about the earthquake.
17:13Sure, kid.
17:14Maybe at the bottom.
17:15Probably won't mean anything more,
17:16or else they wouldn't have pulled us off
17:17after only three days.
17:18With no liberty.
17:21What was that?
17:22Felt like a destroyer going over an ash can
17:24and dropped too close.
17:25I could swear.
17:29I know.
17:31What do you mean you know?
17:32You psychic or something?
17:32I know.
17:34It is the earthquake again.
17:36It is the bottom of the sea that moves this time.
17:38Oh, I bet you that...
17:39This is the captain.
17:40A tremor of severe proportions has struck Bolas.
17:44You lose.
17:44The ship is turning back.
17:47We estimate the damage will be of major proportions.
17:51The Greek people will probably need all the help we can give.
17:55I know I can depend on every man to do his share,
17:58and then some.
18:02Only one-tenth of Bolas remains.
18:16Thousands are hurt.
18:19There are fires.
18:22There is no water.
18:23And the number of dead cannot be.
18:29The estimates of the entire destruction cannot be predicted at this time.
18:35Just Bolas?
18:37How many dead did he say?
18:39Many.
18:41Many.
18:43Cannot be.
18:47Cannot be.
18:48No.
18:53No.
18:55Leave him be Dutch.
18:56Guy's got a right to be alone when he wants the ball.
18:59Oh, pray.
19:00Yeah.
19:02What are we going to do?
19:03Just stand here?
19:04Must be something we can do for the kid.
19:07All right, you guys.
19:08Come on.
19:08Get it up.
19:09All you got.
19:09Hurry up.
19:14I'm hitting the whole ship.
19:15How about you?
19:16A town demolished.
19:20A place that only a short time ago was full of life.
19:24And now a place filled with the quiet of tragedy and pain.
19:29Part of helping is finding.
19:32And this is difficult under any circumstances,
19:34but more so when rubble and ruins may have claimed those you love.
19:38Do you hear anything?
19:48Uh-uh.
19:49Those walls are going to go.
19:51I wouldn't go in there for a million bucks.
19:53Well, it could be a lot of people trapped inside,
19:55like at the other places.
19:56Yeah.
19:56My friend.
20:15My friend.
20:16Tell me.
20:18Where am I?
20:19I mean, what street is this?
20:25What street was this once?
20:29I don't know.
20:31Don't remember.
20:32The family, Stamos.
20:34Nicholas Stamos.
20:35Do you know?
20:36Gone.
20:37Gone.
20:39Where?
20:40Please.
20:41Everything.
20:43Everybody all gone.
20:45But which way did they go?
20:47Where?
20:47Tell me.
20:48Everything.
20:53Oh, God.
20:59I wonder if Stamos ever found his folks.
21:01I hope so.
21:02We're alive.
21:18I found it.
21:33I found it.
21:34I found it.
21:34Mama.
21:48Mama.
21:48Mama.
21:49I am here.
21:50Thomas.
21:50Mama.
21:51Don't go in there.
21:53Let's get these rocks off there.
21:54Come on.
22:08I found them.
22:13I found them.
22:14Come here.
22:14You got them?
22:23Be careful.
22:24Take it easy.
22:25Take it easy.
22:25Watch it.
22:27Are you all right?
22:28I told you he'd come back.
22:32Should I come?
22:33And look, I bring my friends.
22:34The things I go through to meet a guy's sister.
22:37Oh, that's all you think about is dames.
22:39Come on.
22:39Come on.
22:40Get out of here.
22:41Say what is in our hearts are no words coming easily to our tongue.
23:00For what you and your men have done, Captain, you will be forever remembered.
23:06And the name, Albany, will be in Greek hearts always to be thought of in love.
23:17And this, your token of love to strangers in distress, this check for $3,000 from the ship's
23:29company, I present to Miss Coulter for the Volos Orphan Asylum.
23:41Maybe she speaks English.
23:42Ixnay, Ixnay, Ellis J.D. Ixnay.
23:51Now I know what they mean when they say rank has its privileges.
23:55Oh, yeah?
23:57Dig that crazy thank you.
23:59Underway from emergency relief duty to rendezvous with units of 6th Fleet off Leghorn, all watches
24:13set, conditions normal.
24:15We've heard the father come to say, who's heart not find the restless way, who is the
24:44way, who is the mighty ocean beach, who is the mighty ocean beach, its own appointed limit
24:58shore and the sea sea, who is the mighty ocean beach, St. Louis, Oh, dear.
25:00And the rain.
25:01Ixnay, Ixnay, we've heard the sea, who is the mighty ocean beach, while I hear the sea, who, is the fortress of the sea, who is the mighty ocean beach, the sea, who is the mighty ocean beach.
25:07O hear us when we cry to thee
25:17For those in heaven on the sea
25:37For those in heaven on the sea
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