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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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00:00.
01:32Place Destroyer Hollister.
01:34Duty, offshore patrol.
01:36Routine, back and forth, back and forth.
01:41Okay, okay, 14.30 on the nose.
01:44The old man put her into a turn.
01:4614.30, you went 14.30.
01:48Or closest to 14.30.
01:50Hey, 14.25.
01:53Hey, but!
01:53Okay, kid, you win the carton of cigarettes.
01:57All right, who's next?
01:58Who wants to get in the next pool, huh?
02:01Come on, pick your time, fellas.
02:03What's the next time the old man's gonna put her about?
02:061,800?
02:071,830?
02:09Hey, I'll take 1,900.
02:10You've got a black kid.
02:13What do you want, Mac?
02:16Time the same.
02:18Place on the bridge.
02:20Duty, standing by for decode on signal from the flag.
02:24Here we go, Captain.
02:25Hollister will take station 5 miles off North Korean coast in Hongnam vicinity,
02:32serving as reference point for airstrikes on Wonsan-Hongnam area.
02:36Provide early warning for Task Force 7-7 in case of enemy air attack.
02:41Arrive on station daybreak 27 August.
02:45Bill sent me a course in speed for latitude 39.50 north, 127.52 east.
02:51I want to be on station at daybreak tomorrow.
02:53Let's have General Quarters drill in the meantime.
02:56Aye, aye, Captain.
03:10Holy cats, he did it again.
03:13All right, OAT 1440 or closer.
03:16Now hear this.
03:17This is a drill.
03:18All men, manual battle stations.
03:20I repeat, this is a drill.
03:23All right, come on, let's go, you guys.
03:25This is what goes into General Quarters.
03:27Five-inch batteries, manned and ready.
03:30This is what goes into General Quarters.
03:32Five-inch batteries, manned and ready.
03:3540 millimeters, manned and ready.
03:3920 millimeters, manned and ready.
03:4020 millimeters, manned and ready.
03:4220 millimeters, manned and ready.
03:44Ash cans, K guns, manned and ready.
03:46I'll take you.
03:47All right, let's go.
03:48All right, let's go.
03:49All right, let's go.
03:50All right, let's go.
03:51Yes, sir.
03:52Yes, sir.
03:53Yes, sir.
03:54Yes, sir.
03:55Well, what do you men call that?
03:56Well, it's a kind of a switch in odds and even, sir.
03:59I learned it from the submariners.
04:00Well, let's see it.
04:01Okay.
04:02One.
04:03One.
04:04One.
04:05One.
04:06One.
04:07One.
04:08One.
04:09One.
04:10One.
04:11One.
04:12One.
04:13One.
04:14Two.
04:15One.
04:16One.
04:17One.
04:18Two.
04:19One.
04:20Two.
04:21One.
04:22One.
04:23Two.
04:24I learned it from the submariners.
04:26Now, let's see it.
04:27Okay.
04:28One, two, three.
04:33How's it work?
04:34Well, sir, this is rock, this is paper, and this is scissors.
04:38Now, rock, sir, that breaks scissors, and I get to clip them.
04:41Yeah, but scissors, sir, cuts paper, so I get to clip him.
04:45Oh!
04:46I get it.
04:47Okay, let's go.
04:48Now, that's not all, sir.
04:49Paper covers rock.
04:52Rock breaks scissors.
04:54Scissors cuts paper.
04:57Paper covers rock.
04:59Well, it's sort of an odd-guess-the-other-guy game, eh?
05:02And if you don't, you get hurt.
05:04That's some game.
05:05Sir, it's the best.
05:08So are you.
05:11Okay, let's go.
05:13One, two, three.
05:15This is what goes into battle by sea.
05:18Ships and men.
05:20This by air.
05:22Ships and men.
05:24Hotshot one to strike control.
05:27What's the word?
05:28Over.
05:29Hello, Hotshot one.
05:31This is strike control.
05:32You are dead on potential three.
05:34Over.
05:35That's a wounds-hound strike.
05:38On the button.
05:40Pass this on to the Hollister.
05:41Strike on your sector proceeding.
05:43Stinkytown, here we come.
05:46How do you want it?
05:46What's your load, strike chowdy?
05:49Let's see.
05:50Three Sky Raiders carrying 1,000-pound bomb apiece.
05:54Plus two 25-pound fragmentation bombs and one full load of ammunition.
06:00Three Sky Raiders, each carrying 1,000-pounders.
06:04Two napalm.
06:05Six 250-pound frag bombs with VT fuses.
06:10Four rockets.
06:11Stop, stop.
06:13What's the matter, strike control?
06:15What are you guys flying?
06:16Destroyers?
06:20This is what goes into action over target.
06:22More bomb power than a B-29.
06:25More punch than the destroyer's broadside.
06:27Time, target time, plus one.
06:57Place, one sign.
06:59What was left of it.
07:01Duty, go home.
07:04But this is what goes into action from below.
07:06It's called flack.
07:13I've shot one to Happy Valley.
07:15I'm hitting out of control.
07:17Mayday, mayday, mayday.
07:19My coordinates are Greenwood.
07:217 Able 5.
07:22I'm heading for the drink.
07:24Mayday, mayday, mayday.
07:25Captain, we just got a message.
07:44There's a pilot down at Greenwood 7 Able 5.
07:47Where do you make that to be, Bill?
07:48Just outside of One Sound Harbor.
07:52It's about a mile off the coast.
07:54Right near this peninsula.
07:55Porto Pondo.
07:56It's about 90 miles from here.
08:00Tell the engine room to put four boilers on the line.
08:02Stand by to make full power.
08:04Main engine control, bridge.
08:05Put four boilers on the line.
08:06Stand by to make full power.
08:08Steer course, 235.
08:10Steer course, 235.
08:12Here, let me see that chart.
08:13Wait a minute, Captain.
08:14We have a later one than this.
08:20Uh-oh.
08:21What's up?
08:22The whole harbor.
08:23Mine from hell to breakfast.
08:25Out of that 90-mile run,
08:27at least 60 lead through mine waters.
08:29Like so.
08:29Time, full tide, high noon.
08:41Place, Wonsan Harbor.
08:44Action, pray.
08:46This is one nobody can decide but you.
09:01What can you do?
09:06It's a rough one, Bill.
09:07It certainly is.
09:10One poor pilot and a drink
09:11may be dead by now.
09:13And 280 live men on this ship.
09:18Rough.
09:2160 miles of mine.
09:25Bill, call combat.
09:27Tell them to fiddle around on various channels.
09:28See if they can raise a mayday.
09:30He may be sending from a rubber raft.
09:32Meantime, put four boilers on the line.
09:34Make all she'll do.
09:36Yes, sir.
09:38No, sir.
09:39SEC MAV can't help you.
09:41Pentagon can't tell you what to do.
09:42Not even the flag can order you to risk 280 for one.
09:47Only one man can decide.
09:49You.
09:51Captain.
09:53Combat couldn't raise a mayday.
09:55That doesn't mean anything, though.
09:57He could still be alive and not have a Gibson girl
09:59that can crank out a signal.
10:01Yeah.
10:01Combat's still working the channels.
10:03Let's cut this in and see what's going on with the airstrike.
10:15Watch yourself, Pappy.
10:17Bogey at 7 o'clock.
10:19I see him, boss.
10:20Holy cat, it's a yak.
10:22Over Stingville 3 right now.
10:24And Strag did a sweet job.
10:26I see fires.
10:28Stingville 3?
10:29That's one sun.
10:30Looks like the marching yards are out for good.
10:32A couple of pretty big oil refineries could use a little more, though.
10:36Wait a minute.
10:36There's a yellow life raft just north of the harbor.
10:39He spotted him.
10:40Looks like one of the Navy boys has had it.
10:42I'm going down for a look-see.
10:45It's a Navy guy, all right.
10:46Alive and drifting.
10:47What the darn is the code for those reference points?
10:50Anybody?
10:51Channel Charlie, this is reference point Hollister.
10:54Who are you?
10:54Air Force Recon, flying a 29.
10:58Listen, one of your fellows is...
10:59We know.
11:00Are you sure he's alive?
11:02Mister, he's waving at us.
11:03Listen, there's a couple of your F-4 used flying fighter cover for me.
11:06You want us to tell them anything?
11:08Yeah.
11:09Tell them to stand by.
11:10We're coming in.
11:11Tell them to circle for cover over the raft.
11:13We are coming in.
11:14Yes, sir.
11:15Keep in touch.
11:17Reference point Hollister.
11:18Roger.
11:18And out.
11:20Captain?
11:21What's this?
11:22A message I prepared, just in case.
11:24From Hollister to Comm Task Force 7-7, request permission and clearance to enter minefield for purpose of rescue of downed pilot.
11:43Thanks, Bill.
11:44But this is one buck I can't pass.
11:47Now, we're going in.
11:49The question is how?
11:52We should be on the minefield any time now.
11:54Yeah.
11:56Shall I set all hands to watch for floaters?
11:58No, just lookouts.
11:59Tell them to keep a sharp lookout ahead.
12:01Yes, sir.
12:02Let's see.
12:03We're doing 32 knots.
12:05That'd get us there in how long?
12:07Three hours?
12:08Maybe longer?
12:11Suppose I slow down to minimize the possibility of triggering off mines.
12:14How about that?
12:16Six or seven hours.
12:18Hey, Pat, the Army B-29 just reported again.
12:21Says the ranch is drifting toward the base.
12:24We're going to save them.
12:25We've got to get there in a hurry.
12:26I'll have a course for you shortly, Captain.
12:31Time running out with the tide.
12:33Place outside the minefield coming up fast.
12:36Duty, set a course through an uncharted minefield.
12:41Translation, possible sudden death.
12:43Rock, break, scissors.
12:55Bill, did you ever play that little game, rock, break, scissors?
12:58Some.
13:00The trick is to outguess the other guy.
13:03Okay, here we go.
13:06Now there's Hodo Pondo off the harbor.
13:10There's our boy.
13:11This is the Hollister.
13:16Now, I'm thinking with the enemy's head.
13:20I need a safe channel unmined for my own shipping.
13:24Now watch, Bill.
13:31Now, do I leave the main channel unmined and let the American imperialists come in with the heavy stuff?
13:37Uh-oh.
13:38I mined the main channel.
13:42Wait a minute, sir.
13:43Now, let me finish, Bill.
13:45Now, remember, I'm the enemy.
13:46And I still need a clear channel for my own use.
13:50Now, watch, Bill.
13:50This is south.
13:54I know I'm not going to get any sniping from below the 38th parallel.
13:58It's going to come in from the north.
14:00This way.
14:01And that leaves this channel clear.
14:08Do you follow me?
14:09So far.
14:10Okay.
14:11Now, let's call this channel rock.
14:15And this one, scissors.
14:19Okay, Bill, now it really gets complicated.
14:24Remember, I'm still thinking with the enemy's mind.
14:27And this is the way he thinks.
14:30American very smart.
14:33American nobody's jerk.
14:34American figure I not mine northern supply channel, so I have clear root.
14:41So I outsmart American.
14:43I mine northern supply channel he think is unmined.
14:47So he tried to sneak in through my channel and bluey.
14:52Imperialist pig all gone.
14:54Bill, the enemy's no dope.
14:59He knows we're going to try and not guess him.
15:02He knows any war-wise skipper would figure channel scissors is mine.
15:05He wants us to think it's mine.
15:07So we'll avoid it and take channel rock.
15:10Straight down the middle.
15:11So we'll mine that too.
15:12Right.
15:13And he's got his coming and going.
15:15Rock mine, scissors mine.
15:17What does that leave for his own channel?
15:19What channel does he save for himself?
15:21What channel does he leave unmined
15:23so he can move in his own heavy stuff?
15:26Look at your soundings, Bill.
15:29He needs channel rock.
15:31If there's a clear channel anywhere,
15:33it's not the shallow waters.
15:34It's not channel scissors.
15:36It's right bang down the middle.
15:39Captain, air support just checked in.
15:41Should be overhead shortly.
15:44There's your course, Bill.
15:46Channel rock.
15:48Steer course 235.
15:50To intercept the drift of the raft.
15:52Well, according to the way we have it figured,
15:55we still have a few minutes before we reach a minefield.
15:57We'll hold firm on our course.
16:01Rock breaks scissors.
16:05I hope.
16:05It has a B-29 now.
16:21Good.
16:22He's got us in sight.
16:255,000 yards to go off that circuit,
16:27it's making us around our buoy.
16:29There's our fighter cover.
16:30So far, so good.
16:35So far.
16:39What do you suppose has gone on?
16:41We've been at GQ a long time.
16:43Beats me.
16:44Longest morning GQ I ever saw.
16:46Is that guy up there on our side?
16:48I don't know.
16:49Maybe it's maneuvers.
16:50Some kind of exercise.
16:51This is the executive officer.
16:57All hands will make a thorough check of life jackets and helmets.
17:01They're maneuvers, huh?
17:08All right.
17:09Who's in the pool?
17:10Who wants to guess the exact time the old man puts her about?
17:13What do you say, fellas?
17:13Who wants to win a cart of cigarettes?
17:16Mine off the starboard bow.
17:18Mine off the starboard bow.
17:19All bets off.
17:22All bets off.
17:28No turns, Skipper, please.
17:30No turns.
17:41One pilot downstairs, one Air Force four prop job upstairs.
17:47Two fighters protected.
17:49One ship with 280 men.
17:52One mine.
17:53One of dozens or scores or hundreds.
17:56Nobody knows.
17:58Now things tighten up.
17:59Captain, your target is dead ahead.
18:01You slow down.
18:02Your gun crews are ready if an unwanted nose pops up.
18:06You ease up to the boy in the raft.
18:09Folks, stand by with your heaving line.
18:11All engines back full.
18:14All engines back full.
18:23Heave the line.
18:25All engines stop.
18:26All engines stop.
18:27Come on, grab that line.
18:38We've got to get out of here.
18:40Why doesn't he grab the line?
18:41My God, his hands are burnt.
18:49He can't.
18:56Unidentified aircraft on starboard quarter.
18:58Position angle 35 degrees.
19:00You've got the enemy in your sights, but you don't fire.
19:08Why?
19:09You don't want to hit any of your air support.
19:14Folks, put a man over the side to help him.
19:16You don't want to hit any of your hands.
19:46arguments.
20:00What are you doing?
20:01You have to hit any of your hands.
20:03Are you are going to hit?
20:04I don't want you.
20:05How are you doing?
20:06How are you doing?
20:07How are you doing?
20:08Can you do this?
20:08How are you doing?
20:09How are you doing?
20:10Maybe.
20:11How are you doing?
20:12Come on, everybody.
20:13You're doing this.
20:13I'm doing this.
20:14You're doing this.
20:15I'm doing that.
20:16The End
20:46Time, 10 August, 1950. Place, the mined harbor of one song. Action, back the way you came.
21:05Having proved before the Korean War was two months old that one man, any sailor, can expect and count on the U.S. Navy to bend every effort to rescue him.
21:16Whatever the risk, a man is worth it.
21:26Time, 25 October, 1950. Three months later. Place, sanctum of the new planning officer for 7th Fleet.
21:35Sir, here's a final overlay on the one song approaches. We think we've located all the minefields. We think they begin about here and extend all the way down to about here.
21:50Mm-hmm.
21:52Holy cow.
21:53Hmm. Well, what's your problem?
22:05I, uh, I don't understand this rock and scissors designation. What code is that?
22:11Well, it's mine. You see, it all started when I, when I heard about a game called Rock Breaks Scissors.
22:18Did you ever play it?
22:20Yes, sir.
22:21Okay, let's go.
22:3425 October, 1950.
22:37All mines in Wonsan Harbor cleared.
22:40Amphibious operations proceeding according to plan.
22:42Let's go.
22:54Let's go.
23:06Let's go.
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