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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 is Navy Log.

00:08The dramas you see each week on Navy Log are from official U.S. Navy files.

00:14They tell of ships and planes and those who manned them,

00:18recorded through the years in Navy Log.

00:23United States cruiser Toledo.

00:25Time 0700.

00:28Place Yokosuka, Japan.

00:30This is the cruiser, middleweight of the Navy.

00:35Bigger than the destroyer, yet fast.

00:37Smaller than the battle wagon, but with a Sunday punch of its own.

00:43This is the Toledo, just back from Korea.

00:45Its gun's still hot from throwing the heavy stuff into enemy installations.

00:50Back in Yokosuka, beefing up its insides for another crack at the enemy.

00:54And for the crew, this means no leave until the job's done.

01:00It's a good thing.

01:01It's a good thing.

01:02Yokosuka.

01:04You know what they got over there?

01:05Tell me.

01:06Sake?

01:07Tell me more.

01:08Geisha girl?

01:09More souvenirs?

01:11Well, let's get back to the geisha girl.

01:13Well, these kids are trained, see?

01:15Trained to make a guy happy.

01:16Wait on your hand and foot.

01:18If you want a drink of sake, you get it.

01:21If you want your brow fan, you get that too.

01:24And if you feel like a little music, why this Pomona Dreamboat will play you a few numbers.

01:29Keep talking, Frankie.

01:31Hey, Eddie!

01:39Hey, Eddie!

01:40Yeah.

01:40Will you cut the racket?

01:42Oh, what's the matter?

01:43Well, me and Eddie was just doing a little dreaming.

01:46You're supposed to be working.

01:47Oh, stop stounding off like an officer.

01:50Look, we get the job done, we get 24 hours.

01:52Now, that's what the old man said.

01:54Listen to him.

01:55Yeah.

01:55Believe everything you hear in the Navy, Buster?

01:57Listen to what the old man said.

01:59All mail call orderlies lay up to afterdeck.

02:04Mail call.

02:05To a sailor's ears next to leave, the sweetest words ever heard.

02:11Hey, Red.

02:12Yeah?

02:13She said yes.

02:14Your dame?

02:15Who else would be saying yes?

02:18Oh.

02:19Congratulations.

02:29What's wrong, Eddie?

02:55Nothing.

02:55If you feel like popping off about something, we'll die in person.

03:09All right, you guys.

03:10Stop standing around and get in a vault.

03:15Well, Miller, that goes for you, too.

03:16Get the light out.

03:22I want to catch you guys dogging it again.

03:24When the skipper says he wants all hands to turn two, he means it.

03:31Hey, Chief.

03:33I've got to get leave.

03:35What?

03:36I'm requesting leave.

03:38Well, nobody can hate you for that.

03:40Well, I've got to have it.

03:42Oh, come on.

03:43You're pulling my leg.

03:44Look, it's important.

03:46Look, nothing is important right now, except that we get this rust bucket squared away.

03:50Well, you guys do that, and we'll all get a 24.

03:54I'm not talking about 24 hours.

03:56I need five days.

03:59Miller, are you nuts?

04:01No.

04:01I say you are.

04:02You must have a head full of rocks.

04:04Five days.

04:06Well, the skipper himself couldn't even get that right now.

04:07So why did you?

04:09It's personal.

04:10Nothing's that personal.

04:13Look, I told you I need five days.

04:15Then I told you no.

04:17Look, Miller, you're way out of line.

04:21I want to talk to the division officer.

04:23You serious?

04:25That's right.

04:26He ain't going to like this.

04:28I still want to talk to him.

04:30Okay.

04:31But remember, you're on your own.

04:32It's your neck.

04:33First stop, after you check with the chief, is your division officer.

04:48You try to explain as best you can, but he's kind of down on the idea of your seeing the exec.

04:55But somehow you convince him, so off to officer's country you go.

05:03Very well.

05:04The answer is no, Miller.

05:06No to anyone.

05:07Sir, I've just got to have that liberty.

05:09Why?

05:10I'd rather not say, sir.

05:12Oh.

05:13You'd rather not say.

05:14All you do is ask for five days where no one else on the ship could even get five minutes,

05:18and you'd rather not say.

05:21Do I sound unreasonable, Miller?

05:24No, sir.

05:25It's just that it's a personal matter.

05:27I've heard that one before.

05:29Request denier.

05:30But, sir.

05:32Sorry, Miller.

05:33Yes, sir.

05:41Commander?

05:43Well?

05:44May I explain?

05:45Of course.

05:50I didn't want to do this.

05:52The last thing I wanted to do, but if you'll read this, sir.

05:55Okay.

06:03You should have shown me this in the first place.

06:10Leave granted.

06:12Thank you, sir.

06:17Thank you, sir.

06:18The Navy is this way.

06:31not just guns and ships, not just machines, but men, good men, men who work and fight with

06:39the perfection and precision of machines.

06:41But they aren't machines.

06:42But they aren't machines.

06:44Up and down the chain of command, they're still men.

06:47A sailor can have a lot of fun in a place like Tokyo, as the sailors say, sake, souvenirs, geisha

06:58girls, and the Ginza.

06:59Uh, not necessarily in that order.

07:02There is also the art of tea drinking and flower arranging, if you're interested.

07:07Thanks, mate.

07:25From Tokyo to Korea, the log says 622 air miles.

07:30And for many, this has been a one-way trip.

07:33Say, mate.

07:38Yeah?

07:40Where's this, um, say, shoe?

07:42What do you mean?

07:43Where's it near?

07:44That depends.

07:45Where'd you like to go?

07:46I want to get as near the front as I can.

07:49Brother, you got yourself a ticket.

07:52Only a cycle case would be making this trip if he didn't have to.

07:55Looking for anything in particular?

08:00Look, we don't want to be nosy, but, well, maybe we can have a ticket.

08:03I don't know.

08:05Well, maybe I'm looking for a certain outpin.

08:08Yeah?

08:08Which one?

08:093rd Battalion, 7th Marines.

08:11Heard they were up front.

08:13You heard right, mate.

08:16Look, if you're interested, the 3rd Battalion got cut up pretty bad up north, up around Hong

08:20Ku.

08:21They still there?

08:23Last time we heard.

08:25Hong Ku.

08:26How do I get there?

08:28Well, there's only one way you can make it.

08:31Yeah?

08:33One thing about Korea, it's not like Central Park, especially when you meet a bunch of Marines

08:58who look at you as though you have a hole in your head.

09:00THE END

09:30THE END

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