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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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00:00This week on Navy Log are from official U.S. Navy files.
00:04They tell of ships and planes and those who manned them,
00:08recorded through the years in Navy Log.
00:22Hamburg, Germany, 1930.
00:24This is where this strange and actual story started.
00:34In Germany, toys of a military nature were very popular,
00:38but more noticeable was a strange human attitude.
00:54You stole my mother, Kurt.
01:01It's from my own plane, not your submarine.
01:03I'm not so sure I can use it. A bad fit.
01:05It's mine. I made it myself.
01:07So?
01:07But it's mine.
01:08It can't be mine.
01:09What's right have you got to it?
01:11There's your reason. I'm bigger and stronger than you.
01:14Besides, if it won't work for me, why should it work for you?
01:17Boys, what is the trouble?
01:19Eric is always dropping things.
01:21Even in Germany, as the years went by,
01:38there were those who saw the handwriting on the wall,
01:41the shape of things to come.
01:43Some remained in Germany,
01:45but others swore a new allegiance.
01:47And some of them put their skills to American use.
01:53Eric?
01:55Oh, Father.
01:59What's the matter? Anything wrong?
02:00I just got this from my brother, Kurt.
02:02He refuses to leave Germany.
02:04But we had it all planned.
02:06After he finishes at the university, he was to join us here.
02:09I know, but he sings a different tune now.
02:12Eric, I don't like it.
02:14The way he writes this letter.
02:17This is not the son I knew,
02:19nor the brother you knew.
02:21And the son of this, he hasn't much use for the United States.
02:24Eric, they're poisoning him.
02:26We've got to get him out of Germany and bring him here.
02:29But how?
02:30I want you to go to Germany and talk to him.
02:32Germany?
02:34This is our only chance.
02:35He won't listen to me.
02:37Oh, to lieber Gott.
02:39Perhaps he'll listen to you before it is too late.
02:41Transatlantic trips in 1938 were becoming an ordeal and full of apprehension.
02:48Not for pleasure and vacation.
02:51Germany, for a time of quiet land, now a hubbub of military activity.
02:56name-calling, mass meetings, and at the moment, an appeal to reason.
03:04Go to America?
03:05Are you out of your mind, Eric?
03:07Look, Kurt, it's lucky for you the papers were put in order some time ago.
03:12I've made inquiries.
03:13We can still get you entry into the United States.
03:15But you've got to make your move now.
03:17You're wasting your time, Eric.
03:18I'm staying right here.
03:20Can't you see what's happening here?
03:23I see what's going on too well.
03:25And you're a fool if you don't see it too.
03:28Look, I was going to ask you and father to come back here.
03:31To the Reich.
03:32You were fools to emigrate to America in the first place.
03:35And look at you.
03:37You even lost your German accent.
03:39Is that bad?
03:40Look, Kurt, your thinking is all wrong.
03:44Oh, is it?
03:46Come here.
03:52You see that flag?
03:55One day we'll wrap the whole world in it.
03:58We'll be the masters, Eric.
04:00And no one else.
04:03So, it's too late.
04:05No, Eric, not too late.
04:07You can still become one of us.
04:09If you declare yourself now.
04:15Why don't you come to the rally this afternoon?
04:18Maybe that will convince you.
04:20So, you go back to America alone?
04:40Hmm, Herr Hauser.
04:42Yes, Otto.
04:44It's dangerous to say things like this, Herr Hauser.
04:48But I wish I were going with you.
04:51People have gone crazy here.
04:53It's not the same anymore.
04:54I wonder, Herr Hauser.
04:55What time is the next train leave for Munich, Otto?
05:03In an hour.
05:04Now, where's this rally?
05:06In the Wurst, Herr Hauser.
05:08Just across the street.
05:09In Germany, they were inoculated as children.
05:17And some of the children never grew up.
05:19Sie werden wissen, was es heißt.
05:22Egen Adolf Hitler, stand zu nehmen.
05:25Herr Hauser.
05:27Sieg heist.
05:28Herr Hauser.
05:29Sieg heist.
05:30Herr Hauser.
05:31Sieg heist.
05:32Herr Hauser.
05:32And out of this came the rolling of tanks, a rumble of motorcycles and thousands of ugly
05:49mechanical birds whose flight means only one thing, destruction.
06:02But destruction was not wrought only from the air and land.
06:19It was carried to the far reaches of the sea.
06:21Time, spring, 1942.
06:37Place, headquarters of the U.S. Navy's eastern sea frontier.
06:41Situation, critical.
06:43Gentlemen, our shipping situation is critical.
06:47One German submarine operating alone has sunk thousands of tons of air.
06:51One of our shipping carrying important war materials along this coast here.
06:56Each one of these pins represents a vessel lost in that action.
07:01Now, our intelligence is pretty sure that these losses are not due to a wolf pack,
07:06but to a single raider.
07:07Has this sub been identified, sir?
07:09Yes.
07:10Survivors of these various vessels have identified it as the U-24.
07:14From the pattern and identification of their locations,
07:17we are sure that the same sub is responsible for these losses.
07:19Gentlemen, the U-24 is a thorn on our side, run by a bold and shrewd skipper.
07:28What about our search planes, sir?
07:30No luck.
07:31They've been on constant patrol.
07:34But it seems that the U-24 is a seagoing ghost.
07:38Somewhere, somehow, we've got to track it down and destroy it.
07:42But how?
07:43Well, if our planes haven't been successful, what's the answer?
07:48Gentlemen, I think we already have a weapon that may provide the answer.
07:53Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill.
07:56The place where NAVCADs are trained.
07:58Meaning, Naval Aviation Cadets.
08:01The hot pilots of tomorrow.
08:03Well, Eric.
08:04Another day or two, and we'll draw our assignments from viewers.
08:08Yeah.
08:09Skittlebid says it'll be Corsairs.
08:11Ah, Corsairs.
08:13Those airplanes got it.
08:14All the speed in the world.
08:16You really think we'll draw Corsairs, Tony?
08:19Well, you can bet on it.
08:20We're the hottest NAVCADs in the school.
08:22You think they're going to give us PBYs?
08:24No, sir.
08:25It's going to be Corsairs.
08:26Get the picture?
08:29Look, we're on an aircraft carrier, see?
08:32Now, the dope is, they've located an enemy flotilla.
08:35So, we take off, enter the wind.
08:37We go up about 2,000 feet.
08:38We accelerate from 250 to 300.
08:40When all of a sudden...
08:42Hey, I'll bet that's it.
08:44Corsairs, here we come.
08:45Lakehurst.
08:57Me too.
08:59What does that mean?
09:00Blimps.
09:02Nice, big, fat, slow, lighter-than-air blimps.
09:09Time, late spring, 1942.
09:13Place, Lakehurst, New Jersey.
09:15Duty, flight training.
09:18An accelerated war course.
09:20You get your wings in five months.
09:35Just a sign, sir?
09:37Uh, is that what we're going to fly?
09:40Yes, sir.
09:40When you finish your training, she's a beauty, too.
09:44Look at the shape of that envelope.
09:46That's a new type car they have, too.
09:48Takes a crew of 10.
09:49I suppose there's nothing to flying that airship.
09:52Oh, nothing much, sir.
09:54All you have to do is learn about navigation,
09:56aerostatics,
09:57aeroly,
09:58tactics,
09:59power plants,
10:00maintenance,
10:01and a few other simple things.
10:04Well, tell me something, chief.
10:05She looks real speedy.
10:07How fast will that thing go?
10:09Oh, she's real fast, sir.
10:10Around 70 knots for about 80 miles an hour, civilian style.
10:14This is the K-ship.
10:20A rubber envelope filled with about a half million cubic feet of helium.
10:25Two Pratt and Whitney engines,
10:27ceiling 5,000 to 6,000 feet.
10:30Staying power 30 hours in the air without refueling.
10:33Interesting.
10:34But even more interesting...
10:36Gentlemen,
10:38blimps do two primary jobs, as you know.
10:41One is to escort convoys and independent vessels,
10:45and two,
10:47anti-subpatrols.
10:50Now, the advantages of a blimp in anti-submarine warfare are obvious.
10:54First,
10:56it can hover over a spot.
10:58A plane cannot.
11:00Second,
11:01it has a better field of vision than any other aircraft.
11:04Third,
11:05it can operate in conditions of low visibility.
11:09And fourth,
11:10it can get very close to the surface of the ocean
11:12for purposes of observation.
11:14Now, we've been given a job
11:16that rates an A number one priority.
11:19Our job is to get the U-24.
11:23We're going to patrol this area with airships
11:26until we're blue in the face.
11:28We're going to watch this sea
11:30until we go blind.
11:32We'll stay out there as long as our fuel
11:35and our nerves can take it.
11:37The planes haven't been able to do it yet,
11:40but maybe we will.
11:42Someday,
11:43somewhere,
11:44we're going to spot that ghost submarine.
11:46And when we do,
11:48that'll be it.
11:52Sometime later,
11:53same ocean,
11:54same submarine in the U-24,
11:56and the skipper,
11:58the same.
12:03Fire,
12:04one.
12:11Fire,
12:12two.
12:19It's a hit.
12:21It's going down like a rock.
12:22Time 0500.
12:40Place,
12:41Lakhurst.
12:42Duty,
12:43U-24.
12:44Locate
12:45and destroy.
12:46Lakehurst Tower,
12:49this is Navy airship.
12:51Request unmasked and takeoff clearance.
12:53Navy airship cleared
12:55for unmasked and takeoff.
12:58Crew,
12:59stand by for takeoff.
13:00Assistant,
13:05remote airship.
13:10Avenue airship.
13:14selected.
13:22Marine airship.
13:23Sea airship.
13:24Sea airship.
13:25Safety airship.
13:25Winning airship.
13:27бой airship.
13:28Galvin airship.
13:29Byron, it's the navigator.
13:33We'll take her up to 1,000,
13:34and we cruise easy John X-ray pattern.
13:36Roger, navigator.
13:39Well, here we go again.
13:41Yeah.
13:42This is cruise number 10,
13:44300 hours of nothing but the bright blue sea.
13:48Maybe this will be our lucky day, Tommy.
13:50Well, maybe, but if you ask me,
13:51this U-24 isn't a submarine.
13:54It isn't even a ghost.
13:55It isn't even a shadow of a ghost.
13:57In fact, I'm beginning to believe it isn't.
13:59A lot of ships and a lot of dead men who say it is.
14:02Well, if it is, it never comes up for error.
14:05What do you think we'll get this bag back into the barn, Eric?
14:08When our fuel runs out.
14:26Another day, another patrol.
14:44This goes on day in and day out.
14:47Well, Eric, we're beginning to log in number 11,
14:55all filled up with fuel and nowhere to go.
14:58That is, nowhere in particular.
15:00You know what I keep thinking about?
15:02What?
15:03Corsairs.
15:04Ah.
15:05If we were in Corsairs now, we'd be someplace.
15:08Maybe out in the Pacific where the action is,
15:10or way off in Europe.
15:12Here we are, cruising off New Jersey.
15:16Sailing, sailing over the somber sea.
15:19And all there is in it is boredom for me.
15:23Hey, Tommy, look.
15:28Hard redder right.
15:29Let's go take a look.
15:33Merchant ship.
15:34Just torpedoed.
15:35She's in trouble.
15:36Plenty.
15:37Hold it steady.
15:38We'll surface and shell her.
15:41No use wasting torpedoes.
15:49Poor devils.
15:51A lot of them never...
15:52Hey, get a load of that.
16:08That's it.
16:09U-24.
16:12Arm depth charges.
16:15Hard redder left.
16:16Aye.
16:35Dick!
16:36Take her under!
16:38Take her down close for a clear shot.
16:47He's gone for a dive.
16:55Radio the base.
16:56Give him a locate on this area.
16:58Aye, aye, sir.
17:00We're coming in, Eric.
17:02We'll drop one.
17:04Maybe luck will be with us.
17:08Stand by to release charge.
17:11Right.
17:14Down, Sculp.
17:29Take her down deeper.
17:30Something went down, but nothing came up.
17:40Chafee.
17:41Chafee here.
17:42We'll come around and drop a die marker to set the sight pattern.
17:45All right, sir.
17:46Notify base.
17:48Tell them we're executing search pattern Easy John X-ray at 100 feet.
17:52Fuel for 30 hours.
17:53After that, maintain radio silence.
17:56We don't want that U-boat to cut in on our frequency.
17:58Standing by.
18:02Captain Anderson, I want to be sure of this.
18:04What's the running speed of a U-boat submerged?
18:07Around five knots, sir, maximum.
18:09Five knots.
18:10And our K-ships can do anything from zero to 70 knots.
18:13In other words, it's going to take the German a long time to get out of this area.
18:22Yes, sir.
18:24What's the latest intelligence on the snorkel that the Germans are building?
18:27The latest dope is that they're not quite ready with it, sir.
18:30In other words, if the U-24 is in snorkel equipment, sooner or later, she's got to come up for air and recharge her batteries.
18:36Yes, sir.
18:37Notify Lakers.
18:39Tell them to set up K-ship pattern 3R4.
18:41Yes, sir.
18:43This was patrol pattern 3R4, and this was the way it worked.
18:48Cruising time of 30 hours, each faster than any sub built.
18:52And they can cover a pretty big piece of ocean with a helium umbrella.
18:56In other words, everywhere the U-boat went, a blimp was sure to go.
19:01Well, I got the pattern set.
19:03What now?
19:04All we do is cruise, round and around and around.
19:07And if the German sub doesn't show, sooner or later, he's got to show.
19:13Shrewd and skillful, they call you, Herr Kapitan.
19:16But can you still keep this reputation with your air running out and batteries in need of recharging?
19:21Maybe tonight, you can breathe and recharge.
19:34We've got an hour of fuel left before we have to return to base.
19:38Yes, replacement's on its way from Lakers.
19:59Take it down again.
20:00the curtain of balloons luck is with you you spot them first you've got time to get under
20:13but how can you get air and recharge batteries when you're always under
20:17i wonder what that sub skipper is thinking about right now i wonder
20:29you know if he gets out of this alive and has a kid i bet he never buys him a balloon at a circus
20:35that's funny you go to school you learn a lot of things for instance the law of gravity
20:42what goes up must come down now they're telling us what goes down must come up
20:48those gas bags everywhere we go those gas bags and the swine in them
20:56why don't it go away why don't it go away
21:01there's nothing else we can do we've got to take a chance
21:11service
21:13all right let's go in
21:43arm depth charge make it good it's the only one we got
21:52tell me let it go
22:04you can scratch one sub
22:16every war ends sometime
22:19and there are always the victors and the vanquish
22:23and those who are separated seek to meet again
22:26time september 1945
22:36place hamburg germany
22:39assignment leave
22:41oh her house you are back again yes it all seems like a dream a bad dream the way things happened the way they ended
22:54it's been terrible it's been terrible terrible
22:58i suppose you wonder what i'm doing here otto
23:00i think i know
23:03you're looking for your brother kurt
23:05you know where i can find him
23:07yeah her house
23:09yeah i know where you can find him
23:12your brother was a hero for the fatherland
23:22your brother was a hero for the fatherland
23:35he sank many of your ships
23:38many
23:40go to america
23:42are you out of your mind eric
23:45you see that flag
23:46one day we'll wrap the whole world in
23:49we'll be the masters
23:51and no one else
23:53this was a story of winter than air
23:58and this is on the record
23:59in the course of world war ii
24:02wherever there was a blimp escorting a convoy
24:04not a single ship was lost
24:07eric hauser lieutenant commander usn
24:11return from leave
24:13reported for duty
24:14here
24:21and
24:25and
24:29and
24:31and
24:33and
24:35and
24:37and
24:39and
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