This is more worthy of a Keystone cops movie than the US Navy. I'll bet this was peacetime since if CINCPACFLT saw it, they all would be court martialed.
I never thought I'd see this again! I lent my VHS copy to a friend who never returned it. The picture quality is really degraded from the original, which my Dad filmed with his 16 mm movie camera on a Westpac cruise on the USS Hancock (CVA 19) in 1955. Sam Shapiro is a spoof name--Dad's "nom de filme!"
We saw this at TBS (Quantico) then spent 18 months elsewhere before arriving at P'cola for flight training. BIG THANK YOU PObermanns for getting this to the world.
Navy Air/Marine Air spooling up and landing hard!
This is more worthy of a Keystone cops movie than the US Navy. I'll bet this was peacetime since if CINCPACFLT saw it, they all would be court martialed.
exenrontexas 4 months ago
Thanks for posting this...I saw it as a 16mm film in the ready room while aboard Hanna in 1969.
Tony36345 1 year ago
Outstanding! Long live Naval Air.
photoguy73 1 year ago
What a spoof!
Brasstacks11 1 year ago
@Brasstacks11
I never thought I'd see this again! I lent my VHS copy to a friend who never returned it. The picture quality is really degraded from the original, which my Dad filmed with his 16 mm movie camera on a Westpac cruise on the USS Hancock (CVA 19) in 1955. Sam Shapiro is a spoof name--Dad's "nom de filme!"
2manyphotos 1 year ago
do you think Sam Shapiro had anything to do with this film? lmao.
JFDhater 2 years ago
You can get this on a DVD entitled "OFF LIMITS! Films the Military Doesn't Want You to See" from Periscope Film.
ltjgsurething88 2 years ago
I guess the Navy could only get away with this in the 1950s! Funny stuff!
BlueKyne 2 years ago
I saw this video on board the "Hanna" ,USS Hancock CV19 in the spring of 1975 on a westpac cruise. Thanks for sharing.
stinkingdog101 2 years ago
We saw this at TBS (Quantico) then spent 18 months elsewhere before arriving at P'cola for flight training. BIG THANK YOU PObermanns for getting this to the world.
Navy Air/Marine Air spooling up and landing hard!
JoeNieroski 3 years ago
I last saw this well over 30 years ago in flight school in Pensacola. It's even funnier now!
ladisney 3 years ago
That's just the greatest. Fly NAVY!
freiherrudet 3 years ago
You're most welcome! I just wish that my original VHS copy was better.
PObermanns 3 years ago
A TRUE classic of Naval Aviation! Thank you for posting it!
Boxav8r 3 years ago