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39 Episodes 1958 - 1958
Episode 1
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.
Episode 2
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?
Episode 3
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.
Episode 4
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.
Episode 5
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.
Episode 6
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.
Episode 7
Fri, Apr 18, 1958
Episode 8
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.
Episode 9
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.
Episode 10
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?
Episode 11
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.
Episode 12
Fri, May 23, 195830 mins
The USS Baya operates in cooperation with Navy patrol planes in the South China Sea.
Episode 13
Fri, May 30, 195830 mins
The USS Cod boarding party was stranded for 52 hours on a Japanese junk before they could be rescued.
Episode 14
30 mins
The Triton wardroom and torpedomen ensure a good Christmas is had by all.
Episode 15
Fri, Jun 13, 195830 mins
The skipper of the USS Hawkbill vows revenge when a Japanese minelayer sinks the USS Lagarto.
Episode 16
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.
Episode 17
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."
Episode 18
Sun, Jul 6, 195830 mins
A submarine captain sacrifices himself for the safety of his ship and crew.
Episode 19
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.
Episode 20
30 mins
A Lucky hat and a whale of a tale that contribute to an evasion.
Episode 21
Fri, Jul 25, 195830 mins
A renovated 18-year-old sub is sent to sink a Japanese cruiser.
Episode 22
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.
Episode 23
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.
Episode 24
Fri, Aug 15, 195830 mins
The U.S.S. Sunfish endures 186 depth charges released by Japanese surface craft.
Episode 25
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.
Episode 26
Fri, Aug 29, 195830 mins
Fourteen nuns escape from the Solomon Islands in the U.S.S. Nautilus.
Episode 27
30 mins
American submarine is sent to rescue missionaries from Japanese held island, but one does not want to leave.
Episode 28
Fri, Sep 12, 195830 mins
Appendectomy. No doctor. No surgical supplies. But American Submariners get the job done -- even as depth charges explode nearby.
Episode 29
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.
Episode 30
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.
Episode 31
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.
Episode 32
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.
Episode 33
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.
Episode 34
Fri, Oct 24, 195830 mins
An egocentric young torpedoman matures as he his shaped by the harsh realities of submarine combat.
Episode 35
Fri, Oct 31, 195830 mins
Today's theme is the Bowfin Story.
Episode 36
Fri, Nov 7, 1958
A British sub commander in the Mediterranean intercepts enemy supply boats.
Episode 37
30 mins
USS Squalus sinks off of New Hampshire in 1939. New rescue equipment is used to rescue half of the crew.
Episode 38
30 mins
American submarine skillfully tracks and engages a German U-Boat that is headed for Japan.
Episode 39
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.