I work on a A model P-3 for a museum and this video is AWESOME. It has helped us identify gear that is installed on the plane as well as the different types of flight clothing and flight equipment that wee are collecting to install. Another thing cool is the ICS protocol within the cabin as well as verbology and lingo of the era. Awesome video. Thanks!!
Film is before 1961, Nuclear sub shown is Scorpion SSN 589 Lost with all hands in 1968. Destroyer DD754 Frank E. Evans was modernized with a helo deck and hanger in 1961. Sank in a collision with HMAS Melbourne in 1969, killing 74. I was there.
Ocean Mariner The Captain on the Bridge of the USSYorktown is James Cain. He was the CO from June 65 through May 66. I reported aboard Yorktown December 65 as Ships Company Officer.. This must have been the 1965 West Pac Deployment. DD 754 Frank E Evans was not with us in 1966 and the ASW exercise we went on with an SSN was the Snook.
@@PeriscopeFilm Fair winds, Following Seas Shipmates... Dangerous work, even in the Cold War. I served aboard the USS Brewton FF-1086, Pearl Harbor and the USS Hewes FF-1078 as a Sonar Technician from 1977-81 (ANSQS26-CX Bow Mounted Sonar). The Hewes also deployed a Towed Sonar Array from the stern. She was the first to detect and track a Soviet Delta sub.
Sorry. Has to be no earlier than 1964. The aircraft is a P3A from VP-6 tail designation PC. VP-6 didn't get P-3 aircraft until 1964. To be fair this is a composition of short films to create a story. Maybe ASW exercise "Tall Back" but it is not a film of a single story.
i was looking for the one i saw in 1977 when i was in VP-30 indoctrination squadron - Jacksonville, FL - then went to VP-45 same location - i was AX and the video we watched was hosted and narrated by Glenn Ford - i sure would like to see that one again ... Hmmm - bacon ? ? ? Every single flight that we made - in the states and on deployment - we always had steaks .
The destroyer #517 shown at 11:46 has rumpled looking hull...must've been made of fairly thin sheet metal. I would thought these ships had thicker metal hulls....no?
What is that thing they show at 16:51 (and at another point earlier in the film)? A coffee perkolator? Both times it is shown, the moment it's shown, it is set to a bubbling sound effect. Some other sub detection device, or a guage for said device?
The plane holds an aluminum container, full of coffee that snaps into a plug on the bulkhead. Not sure why it shows a percolator. In my plane, that would have fallen over 20 times in a short mission.
This is a scene from a submarine. We did have a big coffeemaker (The urn style ones with a spigot) that we would bring on the P-3. There were two retractable cables at the galley table that would hold objects like a coffee urn, a frying pan, etc. The Galley Liquid Container could hold and keep heated 2 gallons of coffee, but we preferred to service it with water, and make our own coffee. The Galley Liquid Container could turn coffee into a molasses-like substance over the course of 7 - 9 hours! And yes, Navy men run on coffee! When you're on-station for 8 hours or more, at your station, you need something to keep you going!
This is awesome. PeriscopeFilm, thank you again. I don't expect that you recognize my username but I have thanked, liked, subscribed many times but I'm saying it again. These are so damn cool. One specific question incase you or any visitor knows - is the P3 Orion just too ingrained to replace, or is it in service still because it is just such an incredible platform that we'd be foolish to muck with it? Even in 2018, P3 Orions are still used daily and continue to gather intelligence and support a fleet that is completely different & has been updated/modernized multiple times from what is portrayed in this video? Any simple reason why this is the case? Thank you for the awesome content.
The P-8 Poseidon has already replaced most of the P-3s in the fleet, but there are still some P-3s still in U.S. active service. I had over 4,000 hours in the P-3s, from the baseline Alpha, the TAC/NAV MOD Alpha, the P-3B Mod, and the P-3C Update II/III. To me, there will never be a better aircraft for the job, correction, never be a better aircraft period!
@@jimtownsend7899 amen! The P-8 has rewritten the ASW mission since it could do so little of it. I turned down a job of being one of the flight test engineers on it. I have over 3k hours on the P-3 ranging from EP-3 to NP-3. Good times!
@@jimtownsend7899 Couldn't agree more. I was an instructor flight engineer and logged over 10K hours. I flew the P-3A, P-3B, P-3C Update II/III and the EP-3. Being a P-3 flight engineer is the best job I will ever have. Awesome airplane. Before GW1 in VQ-2 we did DACM (Defense Air Combat Maneuver) training flights. Trust me when I say you will never feel more alive than when you're hanging upside down from your harness straps in a four engine turbo-prop airplane with an F-16 fighter on your tail.
@@tonywoody5293 Well, we never did DACM, but there were a couple of times when I didn’t think I would be feeling alive for very long! We got the snot beat out of us going into NAS New Orleans one stormy summer day. Collapsed radome, leading edges looked like somebody gave a room full of kids a box of ball peen hammers, all the paint blasted off the ESM pod and the prop tips, two lightning strikes and a broken center windscreen (plus other “minor” damage!), but that grey lady got us in. Grounded for four days till she could get PMC. I have other stories, but the moral is that I’m hear to tell them! She always got us home! Edit: I forgot to mention that I was also cross-qual’ed as an EW Operator in the EP-3J in my last tour. Those missions were fun!
I work on a A model P-3 for a museum and this video is AWESOME. It has helped us identify gear that is installed on the plane as well as the different types of flight clothing and flight equipment that wee are collecting to install. Another thing cool is the ICS protocol within the cabin as well as verbology and lingo of the era. Awesome video. Thanks!!
Film is before 1961, Nuclear sub shown is Scorpion SSN 589 Lost with all hands in 1968. Destroyer DD754 Frank E. Evans was modernized with a helo deck and hanger in 1961. Sank in a collision with HMAS Melbourne in 1969, killing 74. I was there.
Terrible tragedies. Never had heard about DD-754. Thanks for your service sailor!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%E2%80%93Evans_collision
Ocean Mariner
The Captain on the Bridge of the USSYorktown is James Cain. He was the CO from June 65 through May 66. I reported aboard Yorktown December 65 as Ships Company Officer.. This must have been the 1965 West Pac Deployment. DD 754 Frank E Evans was not with us in 1966 and the ASW exercise we went on with an SSN was the Snook.
This film is around 1965. It is my squadron, VP-6. The crews are crew 8 and crew 1. A fine group all.... I was PPC of crew 12....
@@PeriscopeFilm Fair winds, Following Seas Shipmates... Dangerous work, even in the Cold War. I served aboard the USS Brewton FF-1086, Pearl Harbor and the USS Hewes FF-1078 as a Sonar Technician from 1977-81 (ANSQS26-CX Bow Mounted Sonar). The Hewes also deployed a Towed Sonar Array from the stern. She was the first to detect and track a Soviet Delta sub.
Sorry. Has to be no earlier than 1964. The aircraft is a P3A from VP-6 tail designation PC. VP-6 didn't get P-3 aircraft until 1964. To be fair this is a composition of short films to create a story. Maybe ASW exercise "Tall Back" but it is not a film of a single story.
Been there done that, except in a P5M and then in a P2V. VP-56, Wish it had been as easy as the film shows.
MANY HOURS spent working on these. Awesome video!
i was looking for the one i saw in 1977 when i was in VP-30 indoctrination squadron - Jacksonville, FL - then went to VP-45 same location -
i was AX and the video we watched was hosted and narrated by Glenn Ford - i sure would like to see that one again ...
Hmmm - bacon ? ? ?
Every single flight that we made - in the states and on deployment - we always had steaks .
This is great background "music" for naval war gaming. 👍
Sonar to mess : I'M PICKING UP YOUR BACON.
Awesome film! Thank you for posting this. I followed a link from the Patronsix site. Very nice to see.
The destroyer #517 shown at 11:46 has rumpled looking hull...must've been made of fairly thin sheet metal.
I would thought these ships had thicker metal hulls....no?
Never been in a A/B version, I always flew in C baselines
12:30
Just an operational coaxial rotor US Navy Drone...
...IN THE NINETEEN SIXTIES!
learning something new everyday
USS Scorpion SSN589 how tragic.
Are they still showing this film in AW School???
What is that thing they show at 16:51 (and at another point earlier in the film)? A coffee perkolator? Both times it is shown, the moment it's shown, it is set to a bubbling sound effect. Some other sub detection device, or a guage for said device?
Yes it is a coffee percolator ... have to have some java whilst hunting submarines!
The plane holds an aluminum container, full of coffee that snaps into a plug on the bulkhead. Not sure why it shows a percolator. In my plane, that would have fallen over 20 times in a short mission.
This is a scene from a submarine. We did have a big coffeemaker (The urn style ones with a spigot) that we would bring on the P-3. There were two retractable cables at the galley table that would hold objects like a coffee urn, a frying pan, etc. The Galley Liquid Container could hold and keep heated 2 gallons of coffee, but we preferred to service it with water, and make our own coffee. The Galley Liquid Container could turn coffee into a molasses-like substance over the course of 7 - 9 hours!
And yes, Navy men run on coffee! When you're on-station for 8 hours or more, at your station, you need something to keep you going!
@@jimtownsend7899 Aye! The days of rum are long gone....
This is awesome. PeriscopeFilm, thank you again. I don't expect that you recognize my username but I have thanked, liked, subscribed many times but I'm saying it again. These are so damn cool. One specific question incase you or any visitor knows - is the P3 Orion just too ingrained to replace, or is it in service still because it is just such an incredible platform that we'd be foolish to muck with it? Even in 2018, P3 Orions are still used daily and continue to gather intelligence and support a fleet that is completely different & has been updated/modernized multiple times from what is portrayed in this video? Any simple reason why this is the case? Thank you for the awesome content.
The Boeing P-8 Poseidon is slated to replace the P-3 but the timeframe isn't that clear.
The P-8 Poseidon has already replaced most of the P-3s in the fleet, but there are still some P-3s still in U.S. active service. I had over 4,000 hours in the P-3s, from the baseline Alpha, the TAC/NAV MOD Alpha, the P-3B Mod, and the P-3C Update II/III. To me, there will never be a better aircraft for the job, correction, never be a better aircraft period!
@@jimtownsend7899 amen! The P-8 has rewritten the ASW mission since it could do so little of it. I turned down a job of being one of the flight test engineers on it. I have over 3k hours on the P-3 ranging from EP-3 to NP-3. Good times!
@@jimtownsend7899 Couldn't agree more. I was an instructor flight engineer and logged over 10K hours. I flew the P-3A, P-3B, P-3C Update II/III and the EP-3. Being a P-3 flight engineer is the best job I will ever have. Awesome airplane. Before GW1 in VQ-2 we did DACM (Defense Air Combat Maneuver) training flights. Trust me when I say you will never feel more alive than when you're hanging upside down from your harness straps in a four engine turbo-prop airplane with an F-16 fighter on your tail.
@@tonywoody5293 Well, we never did DACM, but there were a couple of times when I didn’t think I would be feeling alive for very long!
We got the snot beat out of us going into NAS New Orleans one stormy summer day. Collapsed radome, leading edges looked like somebody gave a room full of kids a box of ball peen hammers, all the paint blasted off the ESM pod and the prop tips, two lightning strikes and a broken center windscreen (plus other “minor” damage!), but that grey lady got us in. Grounded for four days till she could get PMC.
I have other stories, but the moral is that I’m hear to tell them! She always got us home!
Edit: I forgot to mention that I was also cross-qual’ed as an EW Operator in the EP-3J in my last tour. Those missions were fun!
1:58 40 miles snorkel detection! Propaganda?