My brother was in the US navy on the Air Craft Carrier Enterprise for 4 years. He is oder then me by 4 years. He was also 19 when he joined the navy. I was 19 when I joined the US Air Force in 1969.
grew up with these dudes, buddy's some merchies' sunk once or more N Atlantic, Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific, or Med dad on the Nashvile, Uncle on the mighty Mo, family and friends Marines, others ETO and Afrika with the Med and Gulf or East Coast, to S America. Bio gramps a seabee, another USAAC B 17's, one Jim T maybe a flighing tiger, POW, or such at the start, another RCAC, RAF, USAAC, and every ally and the french, another battle for the Atlantic with eastern sea board to the S pole PBY's One buddies pops was Mex American on a Pacific fleet oiler, volunteered for the original frog men as he spoke spanish in the Philipines behind enemy lines for about 4 years? he Just died and stoped smoking while he drove.
The music played over the title credits was actually written by Miklos Rozsa for the great 1943 Columbia WWII film, "Sahara." It was a common practice for studios to reach into their music library to re-use music from older similar films.
My father graduated HS in 1944 from a very small town in N Texas, and 3 days later 41 of the 42 male graduates got their draft notices. He went to basic, then advanced boot camp, and was shipped to Okinawa as an anti-aircraft gunner. After A Bomb dropped, went to Korea to free US POW's. Was discharged after 3 yrs, wanted to stay in but they were only looking for armor (tank) service and he wanted artillery service. Went to school on GI bill, met my mother and married her after she graduated from nursing school (BS degree) after 3 yrs, had 3 kids, was accepted to Helicopter mechanic's school at Ft Sill, Okla and graduated as AP certified mechanic and received rotary wing instructor rating to go along with his fixed wing multi engine IFR/VFR rating, the first to graduate from there with both ratings in 1956. Instructed many pilots for flight status during VN conflict, Hueys and Hughes OH6 advanced training, was the lead civilian final certification instructor before retiring in 1974.
My mother's younger brother served on the U.S.S. Douglas H. Fox, DD-779, which was struck and nearly sunk by a kamikazie while on radar picket duty off Okinawa. The crew was able to save her, and she sailed off for repairs under her own power. She suffered 7 KIA and 35 WIA when the kamikazie struck. She arrived in San Francisco for permanent repairs on 23 June 45.
Read about the Fox on Wikipedia. She was a tough Ship. She was a Summers Class She hit an unknown mine from WW2 sailing in the Med. Towed into Trieste by two Italian Tug Boats. Served in Korea and in Vietnam. Modernized in the 1950s and 1960s. Served the U.S. Navy to 1973. Decommissioned and sold to Chile. Served Chile for 22 years. Scuttled of Cape Horn in 1999.
My Dad served as a lookout aboard the 'Nevada' at Okinawa. He seldom mentioned it and seemed to want to forget about it. I can only imagine now. He lied about his age to join and was 17 at Okinawa. 'Nevada' was hit by a kamikaze attack and later by Japanese shore battery gunners. But she came through it and delivered many of her shells onto enemy positions.
One of the first naval war movies where the captain risks his life to remove a live bomb from the deck of the ship, but that's Hollywood. My uncle Ray survived Okinawa by rushing into a gun mount just prior to a kamikaze hitting his ship, twenty of his shipmates did not. Today's youth chide the USA for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan but they did not experience, thank God, the fanaticism of the kamikaze pilots or were even get told about it. On the other hand we have fanatical homicide/suicide bombers like the ones that attacked the Twin Towers in NYC, and yet today's youth still side with Hamas.
The film has special meaning to me as I was born on Okinawa only 6 years after the invasion. The Navy suffered more casualties than the Army and Marines in this battle, all due to kamikazes. The total casualty count in this one battle was a major factor in deciding to use the atomic bombs on Japan. Using Okinawa as a baseline, taking Japan itself would have cost over 1 million American casualties. The Japanese casualties would have been over 10 million. If the atomic bombs had not been used, the Japanese would have ceased to exist as a race. And America would have been a very different (and not for the better) country today.
@ 48:05, this is the only part of the film that is unbelievable, there is absolutely no way the captain would risk his life dealing with an unexploded munition, that is what damage control parties are there for and trained to do, I would suggest that if the captain was the only person available to deal with the munition then the ship was doomed because the crew were all dead or dying, but tbh it is a film and therefore allowed a bit of poetic license to heighten the atmosphere of “will it, or won’t it explode”, the same applies @ 49:26 there would probably have been another set of gloves in the turrets or the “hot brass” handler would probably have gone out to get his dropped gloves, nobody could take the pain that would accompany the handling of brass at such high temperatures, even once would render the person useless, even with the amount of adrenaline flowing through the body in combat. @ 54:25+ to 54:33 whoever edited out the part the crew watched the film is not very good at it, and to be brutally honest it should not have been necessary or done to avoid RUclips algorithms, this film, and the one that the crew watched, was not sleazy or inappropriate and would not have got taken down or demonetised because I have seen this film so many times and that scene has never been censored/edited out before.
Good film which shows the drama and the danger or war, The scenes of the kamikazes attacking and the destroyer manuevering to avoid them and shootin with all her guns are very good as well as the drama pf the crew, who joked, and told themselves stories but wanted to return home..
What happened in Japan is a prime example of what can happen when radical, rabid leaders take over a country. Germany and Russia were two more. If we aren't vigilant, that same insanity could bring our country down.
Here is a question someone that actually knows something might please answer. I have some old photo's that match some of the footage in this movie. Photographers name my grand father has written rather sloppily because he was combat wounded. PERCIBAL MORRIS AUSTRALIAN PRESS 1945. Does anyone recognize that photographers name at least? I think did see the name in the movie about Rabal Island... Help me out WWII sleuths. My grand father has a note when he got home to San Diego the photos as far as he knew he left behind after his plane was shot down he was shipped home without personals to San Diego than Hazleton Hospital in Pa. When he bought his house in 52 in Allentown Pa. The pictures showed up in the mail around his birth day in 1952. Mailed from 34 Brick Street Gladmore England is the post mark June 5 1952. There is also a picture of a woman in white and red dress no note. Mistress maybe? I have his WOODEN foot locker it has one interesting sticker on it Dewars Hotel Birmingham it says. Birmingham England or Birmingham Alabama or a Birmingham I ain't heard of? So much lost history. I was too young when he used to tell some of his stories. Later in life he got sick and quiet about it all.
It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this film I am always moved knowing that the film of damaged ships is real, unlike todays films that just use CGI, and that real men died defending their ship and shipmates, and that real people died trying to sink the same ships, but the difference was that those Kamikaze pilots were little more than boys sacrificing themselves for one man………….The Emperor of Japan, not for their own beliefs and ideology, not for their country and citizens and not even for their family and friends, just one human being that ruled with absolute authority over them and that by not dying for the Emperor they would bring disgrace upon their family and the family name. By Western values and beliefs we saw the Japanese as being somehow inferior to us and that their Emperor was just a man who was revered as a god, something that was and does defy logic and belief, why did the Japanese military personnel prefer “death before dishonour?”, I don’t think I will ever understand it, I was in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 military for 24 years and I would have been willing to die for my country, my family and friends and especially those who stood shoulder to shoulder with me, but I would not have given my life for the Queen or her successors King Charles and Queen Camilla, I would have died for what they represent, they represent the British people and our nation as a whole, I suppose that is slightly akin to the Japanese 🇯🇵 during WWII but not for the same reasons, whichever way you look at it they died for one person and that defies logic and reasoning. Having said all of that, and as we approach Remembrance Sunday I hope that the world will pause and pay their respects to all those who have, are and will serve their country, and that all of those who paid the ultimate price for our freedoms R.I.P. Lest We Forget. Per Ardua Ad Astra my comrades in arms. 😢🥺. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦🇫🇷🇦🇺
In far too many cases soldiers basically die by the thousands and thousands for a few little men in big hats. Right up to Putin's doomed cannon fodder of today.
The Gun crew are cast as morons, the officers sound like they had 2 weeks training and less than that of onboard experience. Personally, I could rather be watching the first season of "I Love Lucy"
My brother was in the US navy on the Air Craft Carrier Enterprise for 4 years. He is oder then me by 4 years. He was also 19 when he joined the navy. I was 19 when I joined the US Air Force in 1969.
grew up with these dudes, buddy's some merchies' sunk once or more N Atlantic, Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific, or Med dad on the Nashvile, Uncle on the mighty Mo, family and friends Marines, others ETO and Afrika with the Med and Gulf or East Coast, to S America.
Bio gramps a seabee, another USAAC B 17's, one Jim T maybe a flighing tiger, POW, or such at the start, another RCAC, RAF, USAAC, and every ally and the french, another battle for the Atlantic with eastern sea board to the S pole PBY's
One buddies pops was Mex American on a Pacific fleet oiler, volunteered for the original frog men as he spoke spanish in the Philipines behind enemy lines for about 4 years? he Just died and stoped smoking while he drove.
The music played over the title credits was actually written by Miklos Rozsa for the great 1943 Columbia WWII film, "Sahara." It was a common practice for studios to reach into their music library to re-use music from older similar films.
I knew I heard this music in another movie. Humphrey Bogart!!!
Nice note. 👍
Shows Navy side of Battle. My Dad was Army Signal Corp on Okinawa during the Battle. He stayed a further 6 months on the island doing burial duty.
My father graduated HS in 1944 from a very small town in N Texas, and 3 days later 41 of the 42 male graduates got their draft notices. He went to basic, then advanced boot camp, and was shipped to Okinawa as an anti-aircraft gunner. After A Bomb dropped, went to Korea to free US POW's. Was discharged after 3 yrs, wanted to stay in but they were only looking for armor (tank) service and he wanted artillery service. Went to school on GI bill, met my mother and married her after she graduated from nursing school (BS degree) after 3 yrs, had 3 kids, was accepted to Helicopter mechanic's school at Ft Sill, Okla and graduated as AP certified mechanic and received rotary wing instructor rating to go along with his fixed wing multi engine IFR/VFR rating, the first to graduate from there with both ratings in 1956. Instructed many pilots for flight status during VN conflict, Hueys and Hughes OH6 advanced training, was the lead civilian final certification instructor before retiring in 1974.
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My mother's younger brother served on the U.S.S. Douglas H. Fox, DD-779, which was struck and nearly sunk by a kamikazie while on radar picket duty off Okinawa. The crew was able to save her, and she sailed off for repairs under her own power. She suffered 7 KIA and 35 WIA when the kamikazie struck. She arrived in San Francisco for permanent repairs on 23 June 45.
Read about the Fox on Wikipedia. She was a tough Ship. She was a Summers Class She hit an unknown mine from WW2 sailing in the Med. Towed into Trieste by two Italian Tug Boats. Served in Korea and in Vietnam. Modernized in the 1950s and 1960s. Served the U.S. Navy to 1973. Decommissioned and sold to Chile. Served Chile for 22 years. Scuttled of Cape Horn in 1999.
My dad at 18 fought there. S1/c chuck scott "scottie". Us navy "amphibs". Lci (r) 769.
A decent movie that really highlighted the camaraderie of the gun crew.
Movie is 90% talking amongst the crewmembers remaining 10% is stock footage from news reels.
My Dad served as a lookout aboard the 'Nevada' at Okinawa. He seldom mentioned it and seemed to want to forget about it. I can only imagine now. He lied about his age to join and was 17 at Okinawa. 'Nevada' was hit by a kamikaze attack and later by Japanese shore battery gunners. But she came through it and delivered many of her shells onto enemy positions.
One of the first naval war movies where the captain risks his life to remove a live bomb from the deck of the ship, but that's Hollywood. My uncle Ray survived Okinawa by rushing into a gun mount just prior to a kamikaze hitting his ship, twenty of his shipmates did not.
Today's youth chide the USA for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan but they did not experience, thank God, the fanaticism of the kamikaze pilots or were even get told about it. On the other hand we have fanatical homicide/suicide bombers like the ones that attacked the Twin Towers in NYC, and yet today's youth still side with Hamas.
Richard Denning sure was one hunk of a man in his day
The film has special meaning to me as I was born on Okinawa only 6 years after the invasion.
The Navy suffered more casualties than the Army and Marines in this battle, all due to kamikazes.
The total casualty count in this one battle was a major factor in deciding to use the atomic bombs on Japan. Using Okinawa as a baseline, taking Japan itself would have cost over 1 million American casualties. The Japanese casualties would have been over 10 million.
If the atomic bombs had not been used, the Japanese would have ceased to exist as a race. And America would have been a very different (and not for the better) country today.
@ 48:05, this is the only part of the film that is unbelievable, there is absolutely no way the captain would risk his life dealing with an unexploded munition, that is what damage control parties are there for and trained to do, I would suggest that if the captain was the only person available to deal with the munition then the ship was doomed because the crew were all dead or dying, but tbh it is a film and therefore allowed a bit of poetic license to heighten the atmosphere of “will it, or won’t it explode”, the same applies @ 49:26 there would probably have been another set of gloves in the turrets or the “hot brass” handler would probably have gone out to get his dropped gloves, nobody could take the pain that would accompany the handling of brass at such high temperatures, even once would render the person useless, even with the amount of adrenaline flowing through the body in combat.
@ 54:25+ to 54:33 whoever edited out the part the crew watched the film is not very good at it, and to be brutally honest it should not have been necessary or done to avoid RUclips algorithms, this film, and the one that the crew watched, was not sleazy or inappropriate and would not have got taken down or demonetised because I have seen this film so many times and that scene has never been censored/edited out before.
Good film which shows the drama and the danger or war, The scenes of the kamikazes attacking and the destroyer manuevering to avoid them and shootin with all her guns are very good as well as the drama pf the crew, who joked, and told themselves stories but wanted to return home..
You could buy soda,chips,candy,etc on navy ships during WW2.
What happened in Japan is a prime example of what can happen when radical, rabid leaders take over a country. Germany and Russia were two more. If we aren't vigilant, that same insanity could bring our country down.
To late i am afraid as its about to happen. Those who voted republican should be careful what they wish for.
The comment re FDR passing was soooooo beautiful
Mustache guy looks like Chef from Apocalypse Now.
Cameron Mitchell didn’t usually sport a moustache in his other films.
Damn good movie..
USN 87-93
WRONG.....they would never open fire when there are friendly aircraft flying over the target area (at 3:05 ). Sheesh
Here is a question someone that actually knows something might please answer. I have some old photo's that match some of the footage in this movie. Photographers name my grand father has written rather sloppily because he was combat wounded. PERCIBAL MORRIS AUSTRALIAN PRESS 1945. Does anyone recognize that photographers name at least? I think did see the name in the movie about Rabal Island... Help me out WWII sleuths. My grand father has a note when he got home to San Diego the photos as far as he knew he left behind after his plane was shot down he was shipped home without personals to San Diego than Hazleton Hospital in Pa. When he bought his house in 52 in Allentown Pa. The pictures showed up in the mail around his birth day in 1952. Mailed from 34 Brick Street Gladmore England is the post mark June 5 1952. There is also a picture of a woman in white and red dress no note. Mistress maybe? I have his WOODEN foot locker it has one interesting sticker on it Dewars Hotel Birmingham it says. Birmingham England or Birmingham Alabama or a Birmingham I ain't heard of? So much lost history. I was too young when he used to tell some of his stories. Later in life he got sick and quiet about it all.
The airdales should have focused less on formation flying and more on the incoming attacks.
yeah right course they should, never did anything did they......idiot
Stop I was denied
13.07.....and they did....
It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this film I am always moved knowing that the film of damaged ships is real, unlike todays films that just use CGI, and that real men died defending their ship and shipmates, and that real people died trying to sink the same ships, but the difference was that those Kamikaze pilots were little more than boys sacrificing themselves for one man………….The Emperor of Japan, not for their own beliefs and ideology, not for their country and citizens and not even for their family and friends, just one human being that ruled with absolute authority over them and that by not dying for the Emperor they would bring disgrace upon their family and the family name.
By Western values and beliefs we saw the Japanese as being somehow inferior to us and that their Emperor was just a man who was revered as a god, something that was and does defy logic and belief, why did the Japanese military personnel prefer “death before dishonour?”, I don’t think I will ever understand it, I was in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 military for 24 years and I would have been willing to die for my country, my family and friends and especially those who stood shoulder to shoulder with me, but I would not have given my life for the Queen or her successors King Charles and Queen Camilla, I would have died for what they represent, they represent the British people and our nation as a whole, I suppose that is slightly akin to the Japanese 🇯🇵 during WWII but not for the same reasons, whichever way you look at it they died for one person and that defies logic and reasoning.
Having said all of that, and as we approach Remembrance Sunday I hope that the world will pause and pay their respects to all those who have, are and will serve their country, and that all of those who paid the ultimate price for our freedoms R.I.P. Lest We Forget. Per Ardua Ad Astra my comrades in arms. 😢🥺. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦🇫🇷🇦🇺
In far too many cases soldiers basically die by the thousands and thousands for a few little men in big hats. Right up to Putin's doomed cannon fodder of today.
Too many goofy scenes
Podria ser en castellano
Good film shame about the crap upload with the poxy edges I'll not follow your page
The Gun crew are cast as morons, the officers sound like they had 2 weeks training and less than that of onboard experience. Personally, I could rather be watching the first season of "I Love Lucy"
Well so far this movie is boring
Crap
Well,
WWll means nothing now
troll
Thank you Donald Trump, but we would rather make our own opinions!
WW2 may be a long ways off and many moons ago, but if we hadn't won it would be a very different world today. You might consider that.
My father was a WW2 veteran. Without what they went through our world would be a much different place.