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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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00:00Navy Regulations, Article 1037.
00:28The deck log shall be a complete daily record by watches, in which shall be described
00:34every circumstance and occurrence of importance or interest which concerns the crew and the
00:38operation and safety of the ship, or which may be of historical value.
00:46APA, Attack Transport Personnel.
00:50The war's over.
00:58The landing boats rest quiet along the side.
01:06The men who guided troops to war now bring them home.
01:13Hey, I can see you from here, right where I left it.
01:20Come on.
01:21Come on.
01:22Time, 11.32 hours Pacific Time.
01:25Place, United States Attack Transport Snyder, Long Beach, California.
01:30Assignment, disembark troops, then liberty for the starboard watch.
01:34All lines secure.
01:35Hey, Norm.
01:36Who won the anchor pool?
01:37I don't know.
01:38Ask the chap.
01:39Hey, stupid.
01:40Who won the...
01:41Oh, you wouldn't know.
01:42Hey, stupid.
01:43We're tied up.
01:44You get it?
01:45Tied up.
01:46Man, get him.
01:47He's left to living.
01:48First time in the States since the shooting stopped.
01:49One beautiful week.
01:50And he...
01:51He don't care at all.
01:52He reads.
01:53I hear this.
01:54Secure docking detail.
01:55Disembarking of troops will commence at 1,200 hours.
01:59Liberty for the starboard watch will commence at 1,300.
02:01Starboard watch?
02:02They had it the last time in Manila.
02:03Always the same gripe.
02:04Oh, man.
02:05I'm telling you.
02:06I'm telling you.
02:07Hey, she's waving.
02:08I swear, she's waving.
02:09She's going to get a sore arm.
02:10You've got the port watch, remember?
02:11I know, but listen.
02:12I'm telling you.
02:13That last time in Manila.
02:14Yeah.
02:15Sure.
02:16Joey boy.
02:17Yeah.
02:18You see, it's like this.
02:19It's like this.
02:20That is right.
02:21Your car's a big job.
02:22Just like that.
02:23I'm coming to the boat.
02:24Your car's got a big arm.
02:25I'm coming to the port watch.
02:26And you know...
02:27I'm coming to the port watch.
02:28I know.
02:29But the last time in Manila?
02:30Yeah.
02:31Sure.
02:34Joey boy.
02:35Yeah?
02:36You see, it's like this, Joey.
02:38There's a girl out there.
02:39I got the port watch, you got the starboard watch.
02:42Okay, Vic.
02:42I wasn't on the shore anyway.
02:44Thanks, Joey.
02:45Thanks, old pal.
02:51Hey, Joey.
02:52Your watch ain't up until 1,200.
02:541,200, Joey.
02:58Man, I don't get it.
03:00Three months now.
03:01You write a letter every day?
03:02You get a regular answer?
03:04I've seen her picture.
03:05She's a beautiful doll.
03:07She lives right here in Long Beach,
03:08and you ain't even going to shore.
03:10Of course, I ain't complaining.
03:11Oh, sir.
03:12Hey, Vic.
03:14Dale's in.
03:15You got a badge, yeah?
03:19Ooh, la, la.
03:21Hey, you know him?
03:22Anything for me?
03:23No.
03:24Sorry, kid.
03:26Here.
03:27I'll let you smell one of mine.
03:35I'll let you smell one of mine.
03:36I'll let you smell one of mine.
03:36I'll let you smell one of mine.
03:37I'll let you smell one of mine.
03:40So what do you want?
03:41I told you I'd call her, didn't I?
03:42Yeah.
03:43Tell her, tell her you got the duty.
03:45Tomorrow, you don't have the duty.
03:47Tomorrow, at 1315, you're gonna...
03:49Okay, 1320, you're gonna call her from the base.
03:53Be there, honey.
03:54Be by the phone.
03:55By the way, how's the kid?
03:57How's everything?
03:58And the dog.
04:00How's the dog?
04:01If I don't have to wait in line at the phone booth.
04:04You've got to.
04:05Look, I got eight numbers to call,
04:07eight different guys,
04:08with all these guys racing in with me.
04:11Hey, Joey, nine won't matter.
04:13You want I should call that dame of yours?
04:15He ain't interested in seeing her for real.
04:17Well, he ain't interested in you talking to her.
04:20Hey, look at that.
04:22How about that?
04:24Give me that.
04:24Give me that picture.
04:25Bec, come on, give it to him.
04:27Oh, I'm just kidding.
04:29Just kidding.
04:32Anyway, he writes to her all the time.
04:33She answers him back.
04:35Why, she even sent him her picture.
04:38Now he don't want to go see her.
04:39Maybe he sent her his picture.
04:41Hey, how about if I'd send my picture, huh?
04:43Oh, hey, how about that, Joey?
04:45I send my picture, huh?
04:46Results guaranteed.
04:48Come on, give me your address, fella.
04:50I'll look her up for you.
04:52Will you leave him alone?
04:53Will you please leave him alone?
04:54What's the matter with you?
04:55You his brother or something?
04:56He's a good kid, so I can leave him alone.
04:58Are you telling me this, I'm telling you?
04:59Yeah.
04:59Yeah.
05:03Liberty will commence for the starboard section at 1,300.
05:08What's the rush?
05:10What's all the excitement?
05:11Well, a month at sea, three months, four months.
05:16Lieutenant Commander Masters, chaplain, U.S. Navy, looking.
05:38Joey McAdams, signalman second class, just watching.
05:40Not going ashore?
05:41No, sir.
05:42I thought I'd stay aboard.
05:42First time, is it?
05:43Well, there's nothing much to do ashore anyway, sir.
05:47Boston, New York, all those forward ports, you're always the first ashore.
05:56What'd she look like, Joey?
05:58Well, she's pretty, very pretty.
06:04Joanne Montgomery.
06:08Joanne Montgomery.
06:09You gave me your name, sir, a few months ago.
06:12Well, you noticed that I hadn't been writing any letters, and, well, I said I didn't have
06:16anybody to write to, and, uh, well, you had the names of some girls from the church
06:21here in Long Beach, and they said they'd write to the servicemen, so I wrote them.
06:25And she wrote you back.
06:26She even sent you a picture.
06:27Yes, sir.
06:29Well, I sent my picture, too.
06:34First, I asked her for hers, and then I sent mine, and said we were coming into Long Beach,
06:38and then, well, I'd call on her.
06:40And, she never wrote again.
06:45Boy, I know I'm not much, sir, but, well, after all those letters we wrote, it was
06:50got like we'd known each other for a long time, all our lives, and I really got to looking
06:55forward to seeing her.
06:58And then, enough, enough.
07:03I'm sorry, sir.
07:07Joey.
07:07Why don't you call her?
07:11Well, after sending my picture, sir, if she doesn't even want to see me.
07:14Well, a girl who wrote nice letters like that, she doesn't refuse to see a fella because
07:17he's short or tall or young or old.
07:20She doesn't look at his picture and say, I don't like his type.
07:23I don't know, sir.
07:24No, she's a nice girl.
07:26And the girls in that church Young People's Society, they're all nice girls, Joey.
07:30Yeah, yeah, I guess they are.
07:32Now, there's a phone on the pier.
07:33You'll only be gone about a half an hour, and I think that the officer of the deck will
07:37take your problem under serious consideration.
07:40Morale, they call it, but a ship is only as good as the men who sail it.
07:45And sometimes a simple phone call can make all the difference.
07:48Hello, Alice?
07:57Uh, uh, uh, no, I mean, uh, Georgia.
08:00Yeah, that's what I said, Georgia.
08:02Well, it's all Vic Menke.
08:05Victor Menke.
08:08Yeah, we met last year.
08:10Remember, the ship was here in Long Beach for repairs, and I...
08:12Ah, I never liked her anyway.
08:19Hey, Joey.
08:21Joey, listen, ain't you supposed to be taking the watch?
08:23Uh, just a call, Vic.
08:24I got permission.
08:26Oh, just a call.
08:27Huh?
08:42Hello?
08:45Hello.
08:47Uh, Miss Joanne, Montgomery, please.
08:50Oh, just a moment.
08:52Joanne?
08:59Hello.
09:02Hello.
09:03This is Joey McAdams.
09:05You know the fellow with roach and everything?
09:07Oh, yes, Joey.
09:10Yes.
09:11Hello, Joey.
09:13Well, I haven't gotten a letter in a couple of weeks.
09:16Ever since I sent my picture and told you I was coming to see you,
09:18and I just thought that, well, you know, maybe you didn't get the letter or something.
09:23Yes, I got the picture.
09:26Yeah?
09:27Well, I mean, after the way we wrote and everything,
09:30all those letters, and I just thought that...
09:33I'm sorry that I can't see you, Joey.
09:36Well, I'm not so bad looking as that picture.
09:39Uh, that was taken a long time ago when, uh, I was just a kid, and I needed a haircut, and...
09:44I'm sorry, Joey.
09:46After all those letters you wrote, like we were practically engaged or something, and...
09:50and you're sorry, that's all?
09:52You're just sorry?
09:53Please.
09:54If you could understand.
09:58Oh, I understand, all right.
10:01And then I'll be over there tomorrow.
10:03And you can tell me to my face.
10:04You hear that?
10:05I'll be there, and you can tell me right to my face.
10:08Well, Joey and I tried to warn you.
10:23When you wrote that first letter, sent you a picture, started counting on his letters,
10:27watching the mail for them every day, I tried to warn you.
10:31It was bound to happen.
10:32Please, Dad, please.
10:40Here's his picture.
10:43Is he really young?
10:46Does he need a haircut?
10:53Yeah, yeah, he needs a haircut.
10:55He's nice-looking, isn't he?
11:00He really is nice-looking.
11:09Time, 1300 hours.
11:11Place, attack transport, Snyder.
11:14Assignment, starboard watch load cargo.
11:17Port watch, liberty.
11:19Hey, Joey, I don't see why just because yesterday you took my watch, I got to take yours.
11:26I mean, you didn't tell me anything.
11:27Well, I'm telling you now.
11:29Hey, but, kid, you don't understand.
11:30I mean, you never take it again, Vic.
11:32But today, I'm taking liberty.
11:34All men going on liberty on port watch, fall in for inspection on the quarter deck.
11:41Yes?
11:43All right.
11:44Right.
11:45All right, men, shove off.
11:52McAdams.
11:54You're singled out just as the Liberty Party shoves off.
11:58Why?
12:00No answers.
12:01You're just told to report to the chaplain's office.
12:13Joey.
12:15This girl, Joanne Montgomery.
12:18Yes, sir.
12:19Her, uh, father got in touch with me.
12:22I just came from seeing her.
12:24Oh?
12:25Yes, he says that you became angry on the phone yesterday.
12:28You insisted you were going over there to see his daughter.
12:31She told you not to come, but you insisted.
12:33You were even rude.
12:34Yes, sir, after what you told me yesterday.
12:38I know.
12:39But, well, yesterday was different.
12:43Different, sir?
12:44Joey, the girl doesn't want to see you.
12:50She has her reasons.
12:51Believe me, she has her reasons.
12:54Now, you wouldn't want to hurt a nice girl like that, would you?
12:56Sure.
12:58Her reasons.
12:59Write a lot of letters.
13:01Practically fall in love.
13:02Well, she gets my picture, but I don't look much like Gregory Peck, so drop the whole thing.
13:08Not it, Joey.
13:10Well, what else is it?
13:12If she's married, she hasn't any business writing the kind of letters she did.
13:15She's not married.
13:16Well, if she's engaged, she, she can still see me, can't she?
13:20That's just it, Joey.
13:23She, she can't see you.
13:26Why?
13:27Why does it make all this big difference?
13:30Makes a difference to you, doesn't it?
13:33Yes, sir, it does.
13:37Joey, I, I sort of got you into this.
13:40Now, I don't want you to be hurt.
13:45Sir, I guess you've forgotten what you said yesterday.
13:49Any nice girl, she wouldn't try to hide from me just because of my looks or something.
13:53Oh, Joey.
13:54So now, suddenly, looks become the big thing, don't they?
13:57All right.
13:58I've got a picture of her right here with me.
14:01Oh, she's beautiful.
14:02But if she wasn't beautiful, I'd feel the same way.
14:04The letters would say the same things, and I still want to see her.
14:07And it wouldn't make any difference to me at all what she looked like.
14:11No, I don't think it would.
14:15Joey, I made a promise to this girl's father.
14:19I was to meet Joanne this afternoon at exactly 1400 in Little Park.
14:25He asked me to do that, and I promised.
14:29He thought perhaps I could help her.
14:35It isn't right to break a promise, Joey.
14:37Even when someone's whole happiness is at stake, it isn't right.
14:44But I'm going to break that promise anyway.
14:52Here's the address.
14:55It's a little park.
14:58She's waiting for me.
14:59But if you meant everything that you said you did,
15:03I think, Joey,
15:05I think you can do more for her than I can.
15:13Miss Montgomery?
15:26Commander Masters.
15:28I know it was wrong, Commander.
15:31I mean, I didn't want to hurt anybody.
15:34I just...
15:35wanted to write someone, you see.
15:38And I didn't mean to hurt him.
15:44I can't explain, can I?
15:47I mean, I know I sort of...
15:49let him on.
15:52I mean, I know it was my fault.
15:55My fault.
15:58And I'm sorry.
15:59I'm sorry.
16:02Commander?
16:03It's not the Commander.
16:08It's me, Joey.
16:12Joey.
16:14You're sorry.
16:16Sure you're sorry.
16:18Your fault.
16:20Sixteen.
16:21Sixteen letters you wrote.
16:24Just joking with me, having yourself a laugh.
16:27Writing all that stuff you didn't mean
16:28just so I'd write you the way I did.
16:31Even poetry.
16:32I even wrote you poetry.
16:35Boy, I'll bet you got a laugh out of that.
16:37Probably showed it to your friends.
16:40Yeah, and my picture, too.
16:41I bet you showed that around.
16:43What a jerk.
16:44Look at him, girls.
16:46I really had this guy going.
16:48What a jerk.
16:49What a jerk.
16:52Well, what's the matter?
16:53Can't you look me in the eye?
16:55Or maybe after my picture,
16:56you'll just get sick at what you see.
17:01No.
17:01I'm not afraid.
17:05I'm not afraid.
17:08Playing me for a sucker.
17:12Yes, I...
17:14I was playing you for a sucker, Joey.
17:19For a sucker.
17:20She'll be all right, Joey.
17:37She'll get home all right.
17:39Well, I was wrong, wasn't I, letting her come here.
17:42I didn't know.
17:44I didn't know.
17:46And the chaplain, he can't know everything either.
17:49Well, coming back to the ship, Joey?
17:53We're sailing tomorrow.
17:550900, you know that?
17:57No secret now that the war is over.
18:00Change of orders and...
18:00Sailing tomorrow?
18:02Come on, Joey.
18:03No.
18:04Coming, Joey?
18:13Joey.
18:15No, no, I'm not coming.
18:16No, no, I'm not coming.
18:16Long Beach is a big city, especially when you're trying to find a certain girl.
18:28You call her home.
18:30She's not there.
18:31You're told she might be at a friend's house.
18:34You check, but nobody's home.
18:40You hope to spot her on the street.
18:42You try calling her home again, but still no luck.
18:51Well, there's nothing else to go on.
18:53After all, you don't know anyone in this town, so you just walk and hope.
18:57Hope that tomorrow won't come before you find her.
19:00And on a hunch, you decide to go back to where you first met her.
19:03Well, I'm glad you came back.
19:13Oh, I've been looking for you.
19:16Your flower.
19:19You dropped it.
19:25It's dark, you know.
19:29I know about the dark.
19:33It's getting kind of cold.
19:41I'm sorry about the way I talked to you earlier.
19:47You didn't have to bring me back the flower.
19:50I mean, it wasn't that important.
19:54Well, I guess I thought it was.
19:57What's it like out there, right now?
20:05Out there?
20:07Well, all the lights are on all the ships.
20:12There's some blinker messages going back and forth.
20:17You want me to read one to you?
20:19Oh, yes, I'd like that.
20:22Well, let's see.
20:23They've already said, do you want to swap?
20:25Now, Mike, Oboe, Victor, item, easy, sugar.
20:34Movies.
20:35Oh, do you want to swap movies?
20:38Do they?
20:41Well, let's see.
20:43Yolk, easy, sugar.
20:46Yes, they do.
20:47I want to swap.
20:48I wonder what the movies are.
20:50Oh, probably a couple of westerns.
20:52I used to like them, but I'm sick of them now.
20:58I don't suppose girls.
21:00Oh, I've heard them.
21:02And I can tell what's going on.
21:05Hey, I'll tell you what.
21:07I'll take you to the movies tomorrow.
21:09And you listen.
21:11And I'll tell you what's happening,
21:12only I'll make it a lot more interesting than it really is.
21:14Oh, no, I can't take you tomorrow.
21:21We're leaving.
21:23Tomorrow?
21:24Yeah, but I'll take you when we get back.
21:27You see, this is our home port,
21:29so we will be back.
21:33Home is a sailor.
21:35Home from the sea.
21:37And the hunter, home from the hills.
21:40You wrote that in a letter once.
21:42What do you look like, Joey?
21:46Really?
21:49Well, oh, I'm not much, I guess.
21:56No, I can tell.
22:00You're very handsome, aren't you?
22:03You're the most handsome man in the world.
22:05Oh, no.
22:07Yes, because I see you in my own way.
22:10And I like so much what I see.
22:17Joanne?
22:24Joanne, tomorrow,
22:27will you come down to the dock
22:28and wave to me when we leave?
22:31See, I've never had anybody do that before.
22:33And will you?
22:35Will you?
22:35Yes, I'll come.
22:38I promise.
22:39And will you wait for me?
22:41Like we're not just letter-writing, friends, but...
22:44Well, you know.
22:47I know.
22:48Well, I guess it's getting pretty late, so...
22:57And maybe your father's getting a little worried.
23:01Yes, I...
23:01I guess so.
23:04Well, let's go.
23:05You know that poem in my copy?
23:13For the first time in my life,
23:14I really know what that means.
23:17Home is the sailor.
23:19Home from the sea.
23:20Hey, she's waving her handkerchief right at us.
23:41Hey, if all that's for you, how come you ain't waving back?
23:47Well, she couldn't see me.
23:49But from there, I mean...
23:51Go ahead, Joanne.
23:54She can see you.
23:55When we're over the horizon, she'll still see you.
23:58Yeah.
23:59Yeah, I guess she can.
24:12Assignment completed.
24:14Troops disembarked, cargo loaded.
24:17Return for another troop run.
24:19Who was not found the restless way?
24:30Who bid the mighty ocean be?
24:38It's all the pointless limits be.
24:52Oh, hear us when we cry to be.
25:04For lonely, never live on the sea.
25:20Live on the sea.
25:43You
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