My father was one of the three men depicted in this movie who camped on Protection Island and played the part of fishermen. When they made the movie, they were unable to locate my dad to get permission to use his real name, so in the movie, my dad is depicted as "Taylor". His name was actually W. Robert (Bob) Wehner. I have an article about the exercise that was printed in the November 1954 issue of "Male" magazine, which shows a photo of my dad on Protection Island clad in his coonskin hat. The magazine story is good, but the ads in this 1954 magazine are hilarious. My dad was the 'cartoonist' on the submarine which is probably why he got selected as the sketch artist for this caper. He never tired of telling this story.

@davefellhoelter1343

2 ай бұрын

HOW Cool to KNOW YOUR HISTORY! RIP GREATEST!

In 1987 I was crewing on a racing sailboat in the Vashon Island Race. At the start of the race we spotted a periscope, one of the Skippers was a retired USN Commander. He said the 'scope was from a Russian D/E sub. Within the hour we had a couple of Coast Guard Cutters, a Frigate and a Destroyer pounding the hell out of the bottom with active sonar and saw a couple of planes running search patterns.

@webbtrekker534

5 жыл бұрын

I remember that. I was a liveaboard at Shilshole marina. Served on subs in the 60's.

@kdrapertrucker

3 жыл бұрын

Run over, tie a bouy to the periscope, call the Navy.

Thank you. I qualified on USS Sea Devil in the early 1960's.

Using a trick or deception in any type of operation is a very good aid and shows good thinking. I know of a friend years ago who performed a mock attack with a flight of F-111’s in Nevada during the 1970’s on a ground radar complex by following a road at very speed and making the enemy believe they were cars or trucks on the highway. His superiors were not happy but he succeeded.

@allandavis8201

4 жыл бұрын

Sonny Burnett, if I was his commander I would have been really impressed and thankful I had a pilot who inventive and intuitive enough to carry out an unusual tactical attack that meant the mission was successful, in war that is something that is an asset, not a drawback, as long as the line between inventive and insane isn’t crossed.

@motomark9736

4 жыл бұрын

fly at truck and car speed ?

@drmayeda1930

4 жыл бұрын

@@motomark9736 Those fighters must have had their speed brakes on and wings full forward to go that slow.

@drlong08

Ай бұрын

@@drmayeda1930 Nah, they just landed and drove all the way...

Thank you for posting this video. My Grandfather served on the Sea Devil during World War 2. Anything about the Sea Devil helps. Thank you.

@PhantomMigKiller

9 жыл бұрын

I recognize that photo of Gen. Patton- it was on the dust jacket of the book "Before the Colors Fade"

@danduryea

7 жыл бұрын

+Todd B. -- Salute! And "Thank You" to your grandfather!

@Dustin_N

5 жыл бұрын

My uncle served on the sea devil as well. Perhaps they were shipmates

@allandavis8201

4 жыл бұрын

I thank and salute your Grandfather. Submariners were/are the bravest men in any Navy.

@geneedmonds1998

2 жыл бұрын

Did you know that on the Sea Devils first war patrol her first sinking was a Japanese submarine. Way to go SS 400 !!!!!!

I was impressed that they used a real coast guard cap device during this episode. I just love this series.

I'm delighted to find your series. While more than melodramatic, it's also a fine remembrance of the stories of actual men who did actual things. God Bless them all.

We shared a large duplex with the Ruhe family in Newport, RI in the late 50's. I vaguely remember Dad referring to him as 'Barney', but it was a long time ago. In addition to this episode, we heard that he wrote the theme song for the series. I can't verify that, however--not listed in the credits.

I'm an instructor at the Navel shipyard in Bremerton and tell this story to my students. Can't remember where I heard it so it's funny that I just now find this video. I didn't know it was 1951. I don't think it could be done now but it would be neat to try. The lady that saw them submerge was in Port Angeles. Loved the idea of the fishing boat as a sound and periscope shield. This is exactly what an enemy could and would have done.

@suburban404

6 жыл бұрын

Songs Of White Wolf Belly button?

@deezynar

5 жыл бұрын

In this day it would be far less trouble to just load nuclear bombs onto cargo freighters and set them off when they dock.

@bestwishes5060

5 жыл бұрын

@@deezynar lol not as easy as you think... that number is covered!

@deezynar

5 жыл бұрын

@@bestwishes5060 It would be hard to spot a small device that is buried in a shipping container filled with industrial machinery made of steel and loaded with electronics. It would be especially challenging if the product was designed to hide the bomb.

@allandavis8201

4 жыл бұрын

In this day in age submarines would just use stand of weapons, like the cruise missiles launched by allied surface and subsurface craft during operations in the Middle East etc. Thanks for your service and dedication. I salute you.

Good ol Johnson outboard motor, 17:35 I wouldn't say that they are the best ever built but I have had a few of them over the years and they do work and run ok.

@AndrewVelonis

3 жыл бұрын

I think that's what my father had in the 60's.

CLOAKING DEVICE !!! This is probably the origin of the Cloaking Device concept on Star Trek.

I lived in Sedro Woolley,Port Angeles was the closest harbour on Puget Sound. The San Juan island to Whidby Island.Loved Puget Sound.

Anything that talks or mentions any thing of Washington and what lies therein, l love it.

The hard working Jim Davis post-Stories of the Century, pre-Dallas.

@russelnorton511

6 жыл бұрын

82Echo411 one of the best

Nelson Leigh as the admiral was outstanding--very believable.

Thank you for the nice video! Lucky times - nobody strike with tobacco smoking!

Wonderful true story and professional men and knowing their machines/tactics! Wish we have this professional military groups today instead of all the P.C. agenda going on today. God Bless the USA and REAL USA CITIZENS!!!

I served on the Sea Devil during this operation. It don’t tell the whole story but it is close. We operated out of Port Angeles for about three months and docked at the Coast Guard station when in port. We visited Seattle,Victoria and Van C. During our ops. It was my first ops other than San Diego. Eugene Edmonds EM2 SS.

@geneedmonds1998

2 жыл бұрын

This is Eugene Edmomds again. This operation took place during our ops out of Port Angeles (sp ?) between Jan. and Mar. of 1958. The motion picture was made when???

@LaVidaLocaHomie

8 ай бұрын

@@geneedmonds1998 Airdate: Mar 14, 1958

Fishing boats may have played a role in the Bungo strait sinkings in the movie - Run Silent, Run Deep".

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I would bet that this was the basis of the the comedy movie "Down Periscope", same basic plot.

Love it.

interesting that this was posted by a man named Richard Damm, i went to high school with a Mike Damm in Portland Oregon

in the video about the germans going into the harbor to sink the british fleet, it starts with an instructor talking to the student captains telling them that the only thing between success failure is their mind. which is part of the old adage, your mind is your primary weapon, all else is an extention there of.

Cliff Robertson..woops...Jim Davis

The ship shown at begining looks like USS W.H. Mann a transport from Seattle to Okinawa in the 1950s

@grumpydwarf167

3 жыл бұрын

I served on the W A Mann. TAP 112 in the late 50s. Not W H...

@michaelthomas7178

3 жыл бұрын

@@grumpydwarf167 you are right typo on my part.

Jim Davis as the commander.

Gardner McKay before he became Adam Troy skipper of the Tiki in Adventures in Paradise.

I noticed something very strange. I saw that when they were... ... I mean, wow, so anyone else notice that?

@drmayeda1930

4 жыл бұрын

Nothing new. Those have always been there even episode 1. That is the production companies suggested place to put commercials. These tapes were meant for a broadcast network not a newsreel type movie.

@HemlockRidge

4 жыл бұрын

@@drmayeda1930 Sar-casm : The use of irony to mock or convey contempt.

Nice to see the P2V, too.

@larrysoares3199

3 жыл бұрын

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Protection Island is nowhere near the Strait of Juan de Fuca. It is on the north side of Vancouver Island near Namaimo, BC. in the Strait of Georgia. Some script writer needs to check up on the geography.

@WA7HOI

4 жыл бұрын

Wrong. It's west of Port Townsend, and just north of the opening of Discovery Bay. I used to fly up and land there, pretty regularly, until it became a marine and bird sanctuary.

@jamesmurray8558

Жыл бұрын

Bathtub king in Namiamo had a bathtub boat.Went and saw it.

Did they sink puget sound?

As I know US submariners couldn't drink vine. Pity...

Supposedly no Japanese boat was never close to west coast.

Is that Warren Oates?..sub capt

No guests?

A good story, although the sub cheated by dropping off the small boat before the exercise.

@christopherlynch3314

4 жыл бұрын

Just to clarify, the boat trick itself was great. But he should have dropped it off after the exercise had started.

@ElmoUnk1953

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherlynch3314 Agreed.

@geneedmonds1998

2 жыл бұрын

Not a cheat, a real war game. Eugene A. Edmonds EM2 SS. Qualified on Sea Devil SS 400.

I remember way back Our shore officers quarters had toilet and heat stove. I mean our shore officers was a toilet with heat stove. Sorry about that...

SS-664 or SS-400??

@markgriffin6348

8 жыл бұрын

+gbowne1 This is SS-400, BALAO class. I think the operation depicted in this episode took place in early 1952. SEA DEVIL was based at Pearl but did ASW TraOps in Puget before overhaul that spring. SS-664 (STURGEON class) was laid down in May, 1964.

@donaldhill3823

5 жыл бұрын

664 was a SSN not an SS so this being during the Korean war it had to be the SS 400. SSN 571 Nautilus was not commission until 1954 and the SSN-664 was Commissioned in 1969.

teeheehee...there's a ship sinking..UFO..unidentified floating object..

Jim Davis? If this was a western chances are he'd be the bad guy

That was sort of like cheating though.

@najroe

5 жыл бұрын

matrox Naah, just regular ruse de guerre, common both on land and at sea, just look at the ww2 allied inteligence ruse sending a corps dressed as army officer with breifcase full of "secret" invasion plans (for calais), or alied fooling germans that norway was to be atacked simply with a few commando raids...

@slumdogpreacher6964

5 жыл бұрын

All's fair in love and war!

@donaldhill3823

5 жыл бұрын

You use every tool you have or you lose. In war on a sub, if you lose you are most often dead.

@AR-jx6wr

5 жыл бұрын

matrox there is no such thing as cheating in war. Do you expect the enemy to fight fair?

@CPTdrawer22

5 жыл бұрын

matrox - In war, there is no rule mandating fairness and no dictate against cheating. There is winning, and there is losing. My preference is for winning, whether in a training exercise/test or against live fire targets. De Oppresso Liber