Submarine Service WWII

[Vutxzzn2]

This comes from the CBS Documentary Victory at sea made in the early fifties

[Vutxzzn2]

@Vutxzzn2 NBC

[Zagorec82]

comparing to german uboats, the us subs were like hotels :D

[Flyboy243]

"Mush" Morton @ 2:59??

[southcoastdub]

3:24 looks like the dog Seaweed that was aboard USS Spadefish

[121staslthelco]

Aye, my father Frank William Materene was also a sparky aboard a GATO Class.

I have the cruise photo but I can't post it in this comment. There are no ss numbers on the Boat so it must have been blacked out and taken during the war. It has a unique sail with a forward smoking deck without handrails or guns. It has radar and a long radio whip on the aft sail, the radar is not the grid style but the rectangular solid small bow tie configuration.

[JohnnyBgood202]

Guppy's, THE best dieselboats!!

[phyliscd]

yes thats musch morton in this clip.

[flyboyer808]

7:59 Is that 'Mush' Morton? It sure looks like him.

[anthony3leaves]

what would be the best us submerine class tho???????

[drummer78]

Well the Gato and the Balao were pretty similar but I think the Balao had a stronger pressure hull and could go deeper, so perhaps the Balao.

[stephenterill]

wow - I just saw a vid in which US submariners shot shipwrecked japanese. not even the germans did that to our people. in fact sometimes they took some of em aboard

[Topher56ify]

@stephenterill Do you really think they would want to take prisoners aboard a submarine?? Besides, if they left the Japanese alone they probably would have died of exposure anyway.

[southcoastdub]

@Topher56ify They took aboard prisoners all the time

[flyboyer808]

@stephenterill In Dick O'Kane's book on Wahoo, he is careful to explain that they shot up the life boats, not deliberately shot up men in the water. The distinction is fine, I admit, but is a clear indication the intent was to make sure those soldiers did not get ashore where they could return to the fight without actually just slaughtering them in the water. Any survivor of the Pacific combat ashore will tell you fighting Japanese troops was absolutely no fun at all.

[flyboyer808]

@stephenterill Several books have gone way overboard trying to call this action on Morton's part a "war crime" or "atrocity" even in the face of many more (and more vicious) actions on the part of the Japanese. I find this laughable in the extreme for several reasons, the main one being the fact that there was no restriction on such actions, if it was felt necessary.

"Execute UNRESTRICTED air and submarine warfare against the forces of Japan." -CNO Admiral Stark on December 7th

[teto1708]

amazing.:]

[pancreasmen]

You got that from victory at sea.

great vid

[dadusiek76]

nice video

[submarinenavycook]

Bravo Zulu!

[crossroader]

My Dad was senior radioman aboard USS Perch SS-176 when the boat was depth charged then scuttled on 3 March 1942. The 3 radiomen and 6 officers taken to Japan and tortured for info and worked as slaves in Ashio copper mines for 3 1/2 years until the end of the war. If any of you guys happen to have any unpublished photos, video, or info on USS Perch SS-176, please contact me. Many thanks!

Excellent video by the way! Thanks so very much for posting it.

[mustangjune]

Went to the sub vets reunion (first weekend in Nov. every year) last yr and there was a gentleman from the Perch. I have photos of him and his wife. What a story. Contact St. Mary's sub. base for info and pic.s.

[Hamodyxxx0]

@crossroader i'm sorry but your dad, you can find his body in the pacific ocean.

[Yappabiddada]

@Hamodyxxx0 Thankfully, there's more slant eyed Jap's bodies there.

[Hamodyxxx0]

@Yappabiddada lol

[Yappabiddada]

@Hamodyxxx0  youtube.com/watch?v=pjLfyooJQE­c

[boxcarvibe]

Commanding officer at 8:00 appears to be Mush Morton, CO of SS-238, USS Wahoo, sunk Oct 11, 1943. At the time, Wahoo was the highest scoring sub in the US fleet.

[mcsey921]

That's Mush Morton? He trained Killer Kane to skipper a sub.

Big, huge, brass ones on these guys.

[AmericanPatriot867]

During The Battle Of Midway the Japanese aircraft carrier IJN Soryu was Damaged By US Dauntless Aircraft but Was finished Off by The USS Nautilus (SS-168)

[luridplanet]

Most people don't know that Roosevelt ordered unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan immediately after Pearl Harbor attack. Nothing was said in public at the time, of course.

[MassachusettsMollusk]

FDR ordered 'shoot on sight' against U-Boats in the Atlantic in SEPT of '41. We were in it to win it from that day on.

[AmericanPatriot867]

The USS Archerfish (SS-311) Sunk The Third Yamato Class Battleship IJN Shinano which was Coverted To A 72,000-ton Aircraft Carrier After The Battle Of Midway. To This Day, The Largest Warship To Be Caught And Sunk By A Submarine.

[navywrslr]

I served in the Navy from 1965-1991,all on Subs. I started out on Diesel Subs,served on 3 of them before going to nuclear Subs. My deepest respect for those who served during WW2 on Subs,they gave us the reputation to live up to.

[Lagomort]

Your channel says you are 51, yet you say you served from 1965-91?

Wouldn't this would mean you were about 7 or 8 years old when you joined the Navy?

[navywrslr]

I was 18 when I joined the Navy,not sure what CHANNEL you are talking about?

[flyboyer808]

actually no its not propaganda although im sure some staged propaganda footage was used. "Vicotry at Sea" was made in the

1950's. This video is a clip from that series.

[adrifromhh]

Propaganda

[submarinenavycook]

Thanks for this Great video.I went to the same Sub school in 1985.

[Richiepookinshoo]

Wow, really?

[Horstniemann]

Very interesting! thanks for posting!

[deelynn16]

My Dad served in submarines in the pacific all through the second world war. Thank you for this insight into his life on board.