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00:55And now, Full Fathom Five.
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01:13The most complex, the most compact,
01:16the most deadly ship of war,
01:18ton for ton, ever conceived by man as the submarine.
01:22No training is more rigid,
01:24no training more intense than that of the submariner.
01:27He must fight his battles imprisoned in a carcass of steam,
01:30sailing in the deeps of the world's water basins.
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01:53A grueling exercise in the pressure chamber,
01:56difficult practice with the moms and moms for escaping from wrecked submarines.
02:00Rigorous tests these sailors must pass to become full-fledged submariners.
02:05Fifty percent of the volunteers will fail.
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02:19New fleet submarines are built for long-range patrols,
02:21lasting up to 75 days.
02:23Built to cruise 10,000 miles without refueling.
02:26When commissioned, they will be named for fish,
02:29Tullibee and Tang,
02:30Growler and Gudgeon,
02:32Sea Raven and Skate.
02:34From the New England coast,
02:36the killer fish are spawned that will lead at the finals of Japan.
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03:04Into every submarine bound for battle go 24 torpedoes.
03:07Into every torpedo warhead is packed the equivalent of 1,000 pounds of TNT.
03:13With bold and skillful torpedo tactics,
03:15a single submarine can kill an enemy aircraft carrier,
03:18as the Albator did in the central Pacific.
03:21A perfect torpedo spread will sink the biggest battleship,
03:24as Sea Lion Second did in the East China Sea.
03:27These are targets every skipper dreams of.
03:31But there is another, less spectacular, more important target.
03:36The Japanese merchant marine.
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04:16From New England to Oahu,
04:18from Point Judith to Diamond Head,
04:2078 officers and 75 men in each new submarine learn to live with their boat and with each other,
04:25conditioning themselves for the tests and trials that are yet to come.
04:29The voyage is long,
04:31but with every passing watch,
04:33the fledgling submarine becomes a more efficient weapon,
04:36a happier boat with a character all her own.
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05:02Single-handed and alone,
05:04the submarine Fletcher sank 21 Japanese ships,
05:06totaling more than 100,000 tons.
05:09How many will this newcomer get?
05:11Whatever her score,
05:13whatever her fate,
05:15there will be no fanfare.
05:17Anonymous adventure,
05:19a seal in obscurity will be her lot.
05:22The submarine service is the silent service.
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05:41The Atlantic gives way to the Caribbean,
05:43the Caribbean to the Panama Canal,
05:46connecting the east with the west,
05:48and the west with the east.
05:50More valuable to the United States than all her gold.
05:54The defense of a hemisphere rests on control of this tiny strip of water.
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06:38Battleships like the Iowa,
06:40carriers like the Essex,
06:41cruisers like the Baltimore,
06:43destroyers like the Fletcher squeeze through the locks,
06:47while electric mules haul and real monkeys play.
06:51Submarines, too, cross the 40-mile Central American Isthmus
06:54to join those who have gone before,
06:57those who have gone to war.
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07:43Ahead, under the sundown, lies Pearl Harbor.
07:47The boat togs, the crew sharpens.
07:50Drill and practice, practice and drill,
07:52and more drill and more practice,
07:54and now submerging practice.
07:56Sixty seconds to make a 300-foot boat,
07:59racing over the water at 20 knots,
08:01vanish completely.
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08:47The best chow in the service is cooked aboard submarines.
08:50The galley and mess, small and cramped.
08:53But here the men live and talk and gripe and think
08:57and relax as best they can.
09:00Their morale, very high.
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09:23Knock it off. Prepare to surface.
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10:24Pearl Harbor, where peace stopped,
10:27where war begins for the new submarines
10:29that arrive at the rate of four and five a month.
10:32Fresh new crews, clean new boats
10:34are welcomed by the veterans into the camaraderie of arms.
10:37An emotion of men welded together in a common experience,
10:40with a common purpose.
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11:17Com Sub Pack, Commander of Submarines Pacific,
11:21Admiral Lockworth.
11:23With more than 20 years' experience in submarine warfare,
11:26he remembers that underwater boats
11:28almost brought England to her knees in World War I.
11:31He has seen the havoc brought by U-boats
11:33in the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II.
11:36If the Axis can do it, so can the Allies.
11:41From his headquarters in Pearl Harbor,
11:43the Admiral directs a powerful, coordinated force
11:45of Allied wolf packs and single submarines,
11:47ranging from the Aleutians to the East Indies,
11:50from the Societies to the Koreans.
11:52All over, everywhere,
11:54underwater sailors execute the first commandment
11:57of United States submarine doctrine,
11:59inflict maximum damage on enemy ships
12:01and shipping by offensive patrol at focal points.
12:05In from the submarines, it seemed, poor the results.
12:08From Rasher, 100,000 tons, sunk.
12:12From Barb, 97,000 tons, sunk.
12:17From Tang, 94,000 tons, sunk.
12:21From Silversides, 90,000 tons, sunk.
12:27Gradual but incessant puncturing of the arteries,
12:30all over, everywhere,
12:32through which flows the life of the Japanese Empire.
12:42And ordered out from headquarters go more submarines
12:44into war against the Empire of Japan.
12:47Claries crushers, roaches raiders, blares blasters.
12:57Preparing for the first patrol,
12:59submarine and crew face a grim gamut of missions,
13:02all hazardous, all alone, all far from base.
13:07They may be ordered to mine enemy coastal waters.
13:10They may be ordered to photograph
13:11island shorelines for invasion.
13:13They may be ordered to rescue downed pilots at sea.
13:17They may be ordered to smuggle spies
13:18into Japanese territory.
13:21They may be ordered on missions
13:22from which there are no escape routes.
13:25They may be ordered on missions
13:26from which there is no return.
13:29Orders, many orders will be issued,
13:32and all will receive the same simple response,
13:35aye, aye, sir.
13:38But no matter what the mission,
13:39the threat of death at full fathom five,
13:42of death in the depths,
13:43hovers over the submarines.
13:46And yet they put to sea with one thought only,
13:49follow the motto of their sister ship, Gajina.
13:52The motto that says, find them, chase them, sink them.
14:17Japanese shipping is the immediate target
14:19of the Allied submarine offensive.
14:21The most modern, the most dynamic society in the east
14:24is an island society.
14:26And the Achilles heel of an island empire,
14:28the heartbeat of an industrial nation,
14:30is its means of transport over the seas.
14:33Destroy that means.
14:35Destroy the merchant marine.
14:37Destroy the navy.
14:38And the skill and diligence of the 27 million Japanese
14:41who support the war will be valueless.
14:44Every shop, every factory, every industry will be idle.
14:49Bankrupt.
15:08The greatest industrial cities of the east,
15:10Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Kobe,
15:15Japan's founders, steel mills, heavy industry,
15:18make war possible.
15:20But torpedoes at sea will dampen the fires.
15:36Battleships for the fleet, guns for the army,
15:39bombs for the planes.
15:41Without the ore, the coal,
15:43the raw material shipped in from overseas,
15:45the furnaces will grow cold.
15:47The machinery will stop.
15:50Destroy Japan's ability to produce.
15:53That is what the submarines will do.
16:04Merely to exist in peacetime,
16:06Japan needs 3 million tons of shipping,
16:08the third largest merchant fleet in the world.
16:11For war, the tonnage must be doubled.
16:14To link the home islands with the essential resources of our empire,
16:17to maintain our garrisons overseas,
16:20to weld together the greater East Asia co-prosperity scheme,
16:23Japan needs ships.
16:25Ships and ships and more ships.
16:28The Adrenaline that keeps Japan alive flows in through our ports,
16:45across our docks and on to our wars.
16:48The Japanese have conquered an empire stretching from Siberia to the Indies.
16:53But none of the victories won on the battlefield,
16:55won at sea,
16:56will profit Japan if the grubby routine of the waterfront is disrupted.
17:26No bugles blow,
17:36and no bands play for the vital maroons,
17:39the merchant ships.
17:41But sailing south, east, west and north,
17:44they keep the island empire alive.
17:47Without her men of war,
17:48Japan cannot conquer.
17:50Without her merchant men,
17:52she cannot survive.
18:01From the Asiatic mainland,
18:03from Malaya and Indochina,
18:05from the Philippines and Borneo,
18:06the plunder pours in that feeds the Japanese war machine,
18:09feeds Japan.
18:11Oil, rice, sugar, salt,
18:15the stuff of life itself.
18:46So everywhere they sail,
18:51singly or in convoy,
18:53hugging the shore or far at sea,
18:56the freighters,
18:57the transports.
18:59Destruction of the Japanese merchant fleet
19:01becomes a major objective of the Allied war at sea.
19:04Top priority targets,
19:06the freighters,
19:08the transports.
19:38Find them, chase them, sink them.
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21:37Japanese destroyers,
21:39quick on the draw,
21:40counterattack,
21:41hurling ton upon ton of high explosives
21:43down into the darkness of the ocean deeps
21:45where the submarine tries to hide.
21:48Once sonar detects the submarine,
21:50the depth charges are scattered in a pattern
21:52blanketing the entire area.
21:54The attack may last hours
21:56and few ordeals in war are more grueling,
21:59more agonizing,
22:01more horrible.
22:03It is a time for stout hugs
22:05and stout hearts.
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23:03But if the submarine survives,
23:05back into action,
23:06back to the attack,
23:08sink them all.
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24:13Name of ship?
24:14Tonnage?
24:15Cargo?
24:17Japanese survivors tell of the mounting toll
24:19of their disaster.
24:211,392 ships sunk by submarines.
24:25Six million tons.
24:27Tankers whose gasoline never reached the warplanes.
24:30Oilers whose fuel never reached the warships.
24:33Transports whose troops never reached the front.
24:36Carriers whose product never reached the furnaces.
24:39Freighters whose ore and wealth never reached the war machine.
24:42The submarines have sunk the Japanese empire.
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24:57Course 090,
25:00back to Perth.
25:0252 submarines will never return.
25:05Their epitaph?
25:07Overdue.
25:08Presumed lost.
25:10But for those who return,
25:12those who survive,
25:14those whose contribution to victory is second to none,
25:18their citation?
25:20Well done.
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