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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
01:41girls.
01:42No, no, all you think about is girls.
01:43Let me stay, let them be on the ship.
01:47I am glad the Navy has sent me to 6th Fleet in Mediterranean because it brings me so close
02:00to Greece. But as for understanding Americans, figuring out my shipmates, I'm still puzzled.
02:06Maybe it will take something pretty big for me to understand.
02:17Time, 1600. 19 April, 1955.
02:23USS Albany in Port Leghorn, Italy.
02:27Standby for Liberty Party.
02:38You know, Fanelli, maybe we're making a mistake.
02:41I swear the kid looks like the Rome power.
02:44Yeah, the tomatoes are gonna go for him and leave us out in the freeze.
02:48Then I spoil your liberty. I stay. Not fair I spoil your chance.
02:52Forget it, kid. Now, I tell you what.
02:54We'll all go over the gangplank together, and once we hit Spaghetti Land, uh...
02:59Well, now what did I do?
03:01Pasquale! What did I do? What did I say now?
03:04It's me. I've never seen anyone so sensitive.
03:06You, Fanelli. He say Spaghetti Land.
03:09How you let him say like that about Italia?
03:11Land of Roman law.
03:13Julius Caesar. Beautiful land.
03:15So?
03:16So?
03:17Italy is your land.
03:19Oh, so that's it.
03:20Look, kid. Pittsburgh is my land.
03:23Just like Wilmington is Feeney's land, not Dublin.
03:26And Evanston is Schmidt's land, not Berlin.
03:28Get that, Rick.
03:29Where you or your folks came from don't signify.
03:32Where you're from...
03:33Uh, where are you from?
03:34Volus in Greece.
03:36No, no, no. Back 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 Polus.
03:54Volus.
03:55Molus, Molus, Minneapolis, Minneapolis. That's not the point.
03:58The point is, from now on, you've got to think of yourself as an American.
04:01From your dandruff down to your bunions.
04:04Then tell me one thing, one time, please.
04:06All right, one thing, one time. Sure, 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 Schmidtie Dutchman?
04:17Why do they call LeBroad Frenchie?
04:19Why do they call Gustafsson Swede?
04:21Why...
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.
04:31But in horse race, somebody win, somebody lose.
04:34Some better than others.
04:36No.
04:37Nobody's any better than the others.
04:38Understand that?
04:39I ask you, how 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.
04:55Anyway, I can't.
04:57What's the excuse now?
04:59No excuse.
05:00For truth.
05:01I have no money.
05:03Honest.
05:04Not just to get out of liberty with everybody.
05:06I send all my money home to Volus.
05:08I mean to my father's home in Volus.
05:09Honest.
05:10It's true.
05:11I only spoil your fun anyway.
05:12I don't understand you yet.
05:13Crazy kid.
05:14Crazy, crazy kid.
05:15A sailor without liberty, though.
05:16All right, fellas.
05:17Let's get it up.
05:18Let's go, boys.
05:19Let's get it up.
05:20Come on.
05:21Come on.
05:22Put the money in.
05:23Annie up.
05:24Here we go.
05:25That's fine.
05:26Okay, fellas.
05:27Here, put that in.
05:28That's enough.
05:29That's enough.
05:30There you are, kid.
05:31I cannot accept.
05:32The Mostanistamos is no beggar.
05:34I take something wrong way again?
05:36You sure did.
05:37I don't understand.
05:38I don't understand you yet.
05:39I don't understand you yet.
05:40Crazy kid.
05:41Crazy, crazy kid.
05:42Crazy, crazy kid.
05:43Crazy, crazy kid.
05:44A sailor without liberty, though.
05:45All right, fellas.
05:46Let's get it up.
05:47Let's go, boys.
05:48Let's get it up.
05:49Come on.
05:50You sure did.
05:51I 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.
06:00He loved me not.
06:01He loved me.
06:02He loved me not.
06:03This is the captain speaking.
06:04Liberty is canceled.
06:05Set the special C detail.
06:07Hey, 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.
06:19Greece?
06:20Greece?
06:21Is trouble in my home?
06:24My father's land, I mean?
06:26I mean?
06:27I mean?
06:28I mean?
06:29I mean?
06:30I mean?
06:31I mean?
06:32I mean?
06:33it's impossible to go now.
06:36Why did he do it?
06:37It's impossible.
06:38All right, sir.
06:39I know.
06:40We don't want to make an Indian
06:53thereby.
06:54I'm leaving for Moreland count.
06:55We need to also take the greek człowiealn forming.
06:58He figures that he's that much closer to Greece.
07:00All alone?
07:02Yeah, I guess so.
07:03And 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
07:15emergency medical and food stores.
07:25All right, Irish.
07:26I'll see what I can do.
07:27Just one thing, sir.
07:28Don'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
07:53instead of going on a mission of mercy?
07:55Mercy?
07:56You 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.
08:04Yeah, Irish, I guess you did.
08:06And the kid probably thinks,
08:09Sir, now you've got to find him.
08:18Stay, Miss.
08:19Who tell you I'm here, sir?
08:21Your friends.
08:22Greek got no friends on ship.
08:24Sure you have.
08:25Got a thousand of them on board.
08:27I don't understand, sir.
08:29Well, it's true.
08:30Every man on this ship is your friend.
08:32Right now, we're on a mercy mission to your native land.
08:35War?
08:36We are attacked?
08:37No, it's not a war, Stamos.
08:40It's kind of a natural catastrophe.
08:42Fire?
08:43Flood?
08:44What?
08:45Earthquake.
08:46Earthquake.
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, my friends, my home, everything.
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.
09:23Time, 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.
09:45Listen, kid.
09:45In case we get liberty here, this being your hometown and all that, how's about interpreting
09:49for 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.
09:56Hold your hats, boys.
09:57We're off again.
09:58Are you off, all right?
09:59You off the beam, you both, this time.
10:01Girls, babes, tomatoes, everywhere.
10:05Okay.
10:06Okay.
10:07Okay.
10:08Out 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.
10:16Don't you got no heart?
10:18Oh, take it easy, kid.
10:19It ain't as if the place is a total wreck.
10:22Why, I seen quakes worse than us in L.A. and they practically didn't even make the papers.
10:27But in L.A. is not leaving my parents, my sister.
10:30Yes.
10:31I have sister.
10:32And in L.A. is not my home.
10:34Well, from the damage report we got from the shore parties, things ain't so bad there.
10:42You ain't gonna calm him down, nonefeeny.
10:44He 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?
10:50Say, I bet.
10:53Sure, the kid thinks I stuck him with the detail here and kept him from going ashore.
10:58Later.
10:59Later.
11:00Uh-oh.
11:01Here it comes.
11:03Stamos, 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.
11:11What's more, if you check in with your O.D., he'll pass you short.
11:14Take off, sir.
11:16Thank you, sir.
11:17Sure.
11:28You're supposed to be asleep, you hear?
11:36I am waiting for Timoth to come.
11:38I want to be awake when Timoth comes.
11:41He will come, Pulakimoth.
11:43Go to see me, Pulakimoth.
11:44Go to see me, Pulakimoth.
11:47Mama, you see what you do?
11:52My son will come.
11:54Mama, for a thousandth time.
11:56In the United States Navy are two, two million men, eight, 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...
12:19Last big earthquake, there is also calm like now.
12:24And then another quake?
12:26The second the worst.
12:28At least he is out of danger.
12:33Mama, you two, sleep while there is still roof over our heads.
12:40Is there going to be more?
12:42No.
12:51Oh, my God.
12:52Oh, my God.
12:53Oh, my God.
12:54Papa.
12:55It was always so good to have you home, Dave.
12:58Oh, my God.
13:00Pulakimoth.
13:01How you've grown.
13:03So, two million men, ten thousand ships.
13:07Oh, but he comes.
13:08Temus, 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.
13:27This is my dessert.
13:28This bread is like cake to me.
13:30They don't feed you well in the Navy.
13:32Believe me, Mama, they feed me well.
13:34One thing you not tell, my son.
13:36What?
13:37What have I forgotten?
13:38Your friends.
13:39Among the men on the ship, you must have friends.
13:41We be happy to welcome them to our home such as it is.
13:44I'll see, Father.
13:46Well, you have friends, eh?
13:48Of 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 Fanelli, Pasquale Fanelli, and Swede, and Frenchy, and the Dutchman.
14:11Really, those are their nicknames.
14:14I didn't understand.
14:16Believe me, Mama, it is hard for me to understand them, too.
14:20Always joking, and sometimes making fun of me.
14:23What they call you, eh?
14:24Not Timosthenes, you can be sure of that.
14:27Stamos?
14:28No.
14:29What then?
14:31Sometimes kid, sometimes Greek.
14:35What does this mean, Greek?
14:37It is the English word for our people.
14:40For Hellenese.
14:41Oh, it's all right.
14:43It takes time to understand strangers, only...
14:46Only...
14:48I don't know.
14:50Themos.
14:51Tell.
14:52Themosthenes, tell.
14:54If it is on your mind, in your heart, tell it out.
14:57It will be best.
14:59It is just that I want to be one of them.
15:04I want them to believe me one of them.
15:07I do not want to be different.
15:09To stand out among my shipmates for my way of speaking.
15:13For my place of birth.
15:15I want to be one with the others.
15:18To have them accept me.
15:20Themos.
15:21Themos.
15:22Themos.
15:23Themos.
15:24To be accepted.
15:25You must accept.
15:27Perhaps they are trying to help you.
15:30And you are holding back something of yourself from them.
15:35I don't know.
15:37Think.
15:38And now, for the men of the family Stamos, a little Metaxas.
15:43I'm sorry, father.
15:44I have to get back to my ship.
15:46Ah.
15:47The ship is the sailor's home.
16:14Think that crazy musical.
16:15Must be Cairo or Istanbul or something.
16:18Tuesdays at the dock and no liberty.
16:21And I never got to meet that sister of yours.
16:41German, French, it's all Greek to me.
16:44And the Dodgers tonight continue their amazing winning streak by extending their lead to 13 games.
16:50Now you're talking.
16:51This is for them 11 games in front of the New York Giants with Don Newcomb winning his sixth straight game.
16:56And that's the top of the news, folks, from the Armed Forces Radio Munich, the voice of the GI in Europe.
17:01Hey, leave it on, please.
17:02You heard him, kid.
17:03That's all.
17:04Yeah.
17:05But he say the top of the news.
17:06Yeah.
17:07So, maybe at the bottom he tell about the earthquake.
17:10Sure, kid.
17:11Maybe at the bottom.
17:12Probably won't mean anything more or else they wouldn't have pulled us off after only three days.
17:16With no liberty.
17:17What was that?
17:18I felt like a destroyer going over an ash can.
17:19It dropped too close.
17:20I could swear.
17:21I know.
17:22What do you mean, you know?
17:23You psychic or something?
17:24I know.
17:25It is the earthquake again.
17:26It is the bottom of the sea that moves this time.
17:27Oh, I bet you that...
17:28This is the captain.
17:29A tremor of severe proportions has struck Bolas.
17:30You lose.
17:31The ship is turning back.
17:32We estimate the damage will be of major proportions.
17:35The Greek people will probably need all the help we can give.
17:36I know I can depend on every man to do his share, and then some.
17:38The Greek people will probably need all the help we can give.
17:40I know I can depend on every man to do his share, and then some.
17:43Only one.
17:44The ship is struck Bolas.
17:45You lose.
17:46The ship is turning back.
17:47We estimate the damage will be of major proportions.
17:50The Greek people will probably need all the help we can give.
17:55I know I can depend on every man to do his share, and then some.
17:59The ship is taking care of Bolas.
18:09Oh, the boat is going to be on top of the ship.
18:14Only one tenth of Bolas if it is.
18:17Thousands are hurt.
18:20There are fires.
18:22There is no water.
18:25And the number of dead cannot be...
18:35Just Bolas? How many dead did he say?
18:39Many. Many.
18:43Cannot be. Cannot be.
18:48Cannot be.
18:53Uh-uh. Leave 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 gonna do, just stand here?
19:04Must be something we can do for the kid.
19:07All right, you guys, come on.
19:08Get it up, all you got. Hurry up.
19:14I'm hitting the whole ship. How about you?
19:18A town demolished.
19:20A place that only a short time ago was full of life.
19:23And now a place filled with the quiet of tragedy and pain.
19:29Part of helping is finding.
19:31And this is difficult under any circumstances,
19:33but more so when rubble and ruins may have claimed those you love.
19:38You hear anything?
19:47Uh-uh.
19:48Those walls are gonna go.
19:50I wouldn't go in there for a million bucks.
19:52Well, it could be a lot of people trapped inside like at the other places.
19:55Yeah.
20:13My friend!
20:15My friend!
20:16My friend!
20:18My friend!
20:19Tell me.
20:20Where am I?
20:21Volas!
20:22Volas!
20:23I mean, what street is this?
20:25What street was this once?
20:27I don't know.
20:31Don't remember.
20:32The family, Stamos.
20:34Nicholas Stamos, do you know?
20:36Gone.
20:37Gone.
20:39Where, please?
20:41Everything.
20:43Everybody, all gone.
20:45But which way did they go?
20:47Where?
20:47Tell me.
20:50Everything.
20:51All gone.
20:57I wonder Stamos ever found his folks.
21:01I hope so.
21:02We're alive.
21:27I found it.
21:33I found it.
21:47Mama.
21:48Mama.
21:49Mama.
21:49I am here.
21:50Thomas.
21:50Mama.
21:51Don't go in there.
21:53Let's get these rocks off there.
21:57All right, come on.
22:04Let's lift.
22:05Heave.
22:12I found them.
22:13I found them.
22:14Come here.
22:15Come here.
22:16Come here.
22:17Come here.
22:20All right, get them with me.
22:21Come here.
22:22You got them?
22:23Be careful.
22:24Take it easy.
22:25Take it easy.
22:25Watch it.
22:27Are you all right?
22:29I 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.
22:40All right.
22:40Now, get out of here.
22:41Come on.
22:44Come on.
22:44What the heck?
22:44Come on.
22:49Say what is in our hearts.
22:54Are no words coming easily to our tongue.
22:58For 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.
23:15And this, your token of love to strangers in distress.
23:23This check for $3,000 from the ship's company, I present to Miss Coulter for the Volos Orphan Asylum.
23:37Maybe she speaks English.
23:42Ixnay, Ixnay.
23:44Ellis, J.D.
23:44Ixnay.
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.
24:15Beep, heard, O Father, come to say, who's on the, find the restless way?
24:39Who is the mighty ocean beach, its own appointed ministry?
24:59Oh, hear us when we cry to thee, for those in heaven.
25:24Oh, hear us when we cry to thee, for those in heaven.
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