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The Silent Service Season 2 Episodes

Season 2 Episode Guide

39 Episodes 1958 - 1958

Episode 1

The Archerfish Spits Straight

Fri, Mar 7, 195830 mins

Submarine Commander questions his own judgment and beaches himself in administrative duty. He returns to sea and commands another sub to sink one of the biggest warship prizes of the war.

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Episode 2

The Sea Devil Attacks Puget Sound

30 mins

US Submarine vs US ASW group consisting of Destroyers and aircraft in a Cold War era war game. Who will win the competition?

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Episode 3

The Bergall's Revenge

30 mins

Follows the beginning of the Bergall's third war patrol to Lombok strait. The highlight of the patrol is to use the new "cutie" torpedo to eliminate escorts that threaten US subs passing through the straits.

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Episode 4

The Unsuccessful Patrol

30 mins

S boats were early and older US subs. S34 was sent into Kiska, Alaska after Japan invaded. She barely survived. Nothing sunk, but she survived.

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Episode 5

The Story of the U.S.S. Aspro

Fri, Apr 4, 195830 mins

US subs provided lifeguard duty. Saving downed allied pilots. The USS Aspro did that just outside Tokyo, Japan in Aug. 1945 at great risk to all aboard.

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Episode 6

The Thresher Story

Fri, Apr 11, 195830 mins

Torpedo test goes wrong and fired with the outer door still closed. It has to be disarmed or boom. Tresher adds a 5" gun for surface action in 42. US Torpedoes were bad at that time. The 5" gun saved the Tresher in a duel with a Jap ship.

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Episode 7

The Ugly Duckling

Fri, Apr 18, 1958

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Episode 8

Peto Plucks Some Chickens

30 mins

This episode starts with the New CO borrowing uniforms from one of his officers in San Fran. The Story ends with that JO resigning to be a priest. Plenty of soul saving in between late in the war.

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Episode 9

The S-38 Story

30 mins

During the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies the S-38 attempts to rescue survivors from a British destroyer. She rescued 58 Royal sailors from the HMS Electra which had been sunk the day before.

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Episode 10

Incident Down South

Fri, May 9, 195830 mins

In early 1942, the USS Tarpon is in bad shape. Then bad turns to worse when she is grounded on a uncharted reef. Can the ship float free in time to avoid the nearby Japanese?

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Episode 11

Mine for Keeps

30 mins

When the Navy learns that Japanese freighters are hugging the coast of Japan in order to evade US submarines, the Trigger is sent to the area to lay mines to force Japanese shipping out into deeper waters. While laying mines in dangerously shallow waters the captain of the Trigger gets to see a Japanese freighter hit one of the mines they just laid.

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Episode 12

Fish Out of Water

Fri, May 23, 195830 mins

The USS Baya operates in cooperation with Navy patrol planes in the South China Sea.

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Episode 13

The U.S.S. Cod's Lost Boarding Party

Fri, May 30, 195830 mins

The USS Cod boarding party was stranded for 52 hours on a Japanese junk before they could be rescued.

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Episode 14

The Triton's Christmas

30 mins

The Triton wardroom and torpedomen ensure a good Christmas is had by all.

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Episode 15

The Hawkbill's Revenge

Fri, Jun 13, 195830 mins

The skipper of the USS Hawkbill vows revenge when a Japanese minelayer sinks the USS Lagarto.

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Episode 16

The Tigershark

30 mins

Tigershark sights an enemy task force. The skipper has to make a decision: Follow orders and leave the area or surface and radio headquarters. His decision leads to one of his sailors being recommended for the Navy Cross.

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Episode 17

The Cavalla Story

30 mins

On her first war patrol in June of 1944, the USS Cavala's captain obeys orders despite a tempting target. His disciplined conduct sets up the great American victory of "The Marianas Turkey Shoot."

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Episode 18

The Growler's Captain

Sun, Jul 6, 195830 mins

A submarine captain sacrifices himself for the safety of his ship and crew.

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Episode 19

The U.S.S. Tinosa Story

Fri, Jul 11, 195830 mins

This was Operation Barney. 9 US Subs entered the sea of Japan June 45. They were the "Hellcats" squadron. They wreaked havoc on Japanese ships with the loss of only 1 sub.

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Episode 20

The Grayling Story

30 mins

A Lucky hat and a whale of a tale that contribute to an evasion.

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Episode 21

The S-44 Story

Fri, Jul 25, 195830 mins

A renovated 18-year-old sub is sent to sink a Japanese cruiser.

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Episode 22

The Pargo's Lucky Seventh

Fri, Aug 1, 195830 mins

On her seventh war patrol, the USS Pargo gets an assignment to land Australian commandos on one of the Paracel Islands.

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Episode 23

The Crevalle's Mine Plant

Fri, Aug 8, 195830 mins

Laying mines off the Japanese-held harbor of Saigon was a tough job at best; but, with one of your own mines stuck in the torpedo tube and an enemy destroyer closing fast, it was a downright nightmare.

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Episode 24

The Sunfish Story

Fri, Aug 15, 195830 mins

The U.S.S. Sunfish endures 186 depth charges released by Japanese surface craft.

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Episode 25

The Sunfish's Cook

Fri, Aug 22, 195830 mins

Fed up with his routine chores in the gallery, the cook of the USS Sunfish, Teddy Aldridge, requests an active combat station for the next engagement with the enemy. The ship's executive officer assigns him a Browning automatic rifle for use during surface action.

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Episode 26

The Nautilus and the Nuns

Fri, Aug 29, 195830 mins

Fourteen nuns escape from the Solomon Islands in the U.S.S. Nautilus.

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Episode 27

The Sandshark Story

30 mins

American submarine is sent to rescue missionaries from Japanese held island, but one does not want to leave.

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Episode 28

Operation Seadragon

Fri, Sep 12, 195830 mins

Appendectomy. No doctor. No surgical supplies. But American Submariners get the job done -- even as depth charges explode nearby.

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Episode 29

The Harder at Woleai

30 mins

Extensive effort to rescue a downed pilot off enemy held island beach from a reef. Early success versus an enemy destroyer. Cdr Samuel D Dealey commanding.

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Episode 30

The Tautog Story

Fri, Sep 26, 195830 mins

USS Tautog was at Pearl Dec. 7th, 1941. She sank 26 Jap ships/72,606 tons by the end of the war. She had one of the best records in WWII.

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Episode 31

The Swordfish Story

Fri, Oct 3, 195830 mins

USS Swordfish travels to the Lembeh Straits on Celebes to discover how an Imperial Japanese air base is being supplied.

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Episode 32

The Gabilan Story

30 mins

Submarine risks Japanese shore batteries to rescue downed airman less than a mile off coast of Japan. Then USN destroyers mistake submarine for Japanese ship. Galivan evades multiple attacks by "friendly" destroyers.

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Episode 33

The Gato Story

Fri, Oct 17, 195830 mins

The captain of the USS Gato plays a hunch (or is it something more than a mere "hunch"?) to rescue downed American airmen.

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Episode 34

The Silversides Story

Fri, Oct 24, 195830 mins

An egocentric young torpedoman matures as he his shaped by the harsh realities of submarine combat.

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Episode 35

The Bowfin Story

Fri, Oct 31, 195830 mins

Today's theme is the Bowfin Story.

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Episode 36

Royal Submarines

Fri, Nov 7, 1958

A British sub commander in the Mediterranean intercepts enemy supply boats.

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Episode 37

The Squalus Story

30 mins

USS Squalus sinks off of New Hampshire in 1939. New rescue equipment is used to rescue half of the crew.

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Episode 38

Seanettle vs U-Boat

30 mins

American submarine skillfully tracks and engages a German U-Boat that is headed for Japan.

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Episode 39

U-47 in Scapa Flow

30 mins

On 14 October 1939, Gunther Prien penetrated the Royal Navy's primary base at Scapa Flow where he torpedoed and sank the battleship Royal Oak and returned home to instant fame.

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