WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:08.039 Tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life 2 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:11.119 of romantic adventure. 3 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:17.320 I want to get away from it all. We offer you. 4 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:26.359 Escape, Escape designed to free you from the four walls 5 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:29.000 of today for a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:46.320 You are four hundred feet below the surface of the 7 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:51.719 South Pacific, the heavy taste of chlorine gas souring your mouth, 8 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:57.240 while somewhere up above you, searching through the night for you, 9 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:03.719 is an enemy destroyer and on sending the submarine and 10 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:05.760 you to a murky death. 11 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:11.920 Listen now, as Escape brings you Richard Chandley's exciting story Pressure. 12 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:32.560 November sixth, nineteen forty four, US S Amberfish S S 13 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:36.200 five nine three departed Pearl Harbor for her assigned patrol area, 14 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:39.879 the East China Sea. She carried eighty two men and 15 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:44.439 twenty four torpedoes. She was commanded by Lieutenant Commander Daniel Hall. 16 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:49.760 Her record was zero. This was her fourth war patrol. 17 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:53.519 On the thirty second day of patrol, at seventeen hundred hours, 18 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:56.480 Amberfish surfaced off the southern coast of Japan. 19 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:05.239 Wouldn't you know it, Mac. If the sea doesn't run heavy, 20 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:08.960 we get bogged. What can you find in this. 21 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:12.080 What's the old man got planned for the night? 22 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:17.479 Lieutenant routine? Night surface routine? You think the last line 23 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:18.000 of patrol? 24 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:18.680 We hold it? 25 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:22.639 Hold it, are you? Boys? 26 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:23.120 Captain? 27 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:23.639 Evening? 28 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:29.080 Sir, that's a lousy night. What speed we make in. 29 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:31.319 Frank but five not, sir? One or two main engines 30 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:35.240 on battery charge number, foreign propulsion position about halfway through? 31 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:38.680 Assum me straight of course? Zero four or five right 32 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:41.080 out has the coast of Kyushu range at approximately fifteen 33 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:43.680 miles of the port beam picking up the usual fishing boats. 34 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:45.639 Aside from that? 35 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:48.240 Yeah, I mean nothing. 36 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:55.759 Thirty two days and nothing, four patrols and nothing, Sir? 37 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:57.560 May I suggest something? 38 00:02:58.639 --> 00:02:59.159 Yeah? Sure? 39 00:02:59.199 --> 00:02:59.319 Man? 40 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:01.560 What oh last night on patrol? 41 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:01.840 Sir? 42 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:03.960 Maybe we could go after one of those fishing boats, 43 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:06.639 take some prisoners for intelligence, and sink by gunfire. 44 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:09.520 We got no orders for it. 45 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:11.439 I know that, Sir, but I might know us. 46 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:13.800 Awesome good captain and of the patrol, and it's better 47 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:14.240 than nothing. 48 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:16.560 I'm sorry, boys, we've got no orders that said. 49 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:22.159 Yes, they're only were only what nothing, Captain? Nothing at all? 50 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:33.560 Thirty two days at sea, cramped living and thoughts passed 51 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:37.599 between men without being spoken. He knows what the torpedo, 52 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:42.919 the executive officer, the whole crew think, Captain Hall a 53 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:46.719 book commander last night on patrol, and he still goes 54 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:50.039 by the book. Got to blame someone for an empty sea, 55 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:53.080 for a tired ship, for bringing back a full load 56 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:57.240 of torpedoes four times in a row. The Captain stares 57 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:00.560 at the fog and into his own thoughts. They need 58 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:04.560 officers behind desks. That's where they'll put him after this patrol. 59 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:05.680 A desk officer. 60 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:08.159 Just a few more hours and he's headed for it. 61 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:12.919 Fog looks like it's thinning. 62 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:18.279 Uh oh, yeah, what's the time? 63 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:18.560 Man? 64 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:21.120 A one hundred cent. 65 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:27.600 Rid This is the gunning tower, radar contact. 66 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:29.639 This is bridge? 67 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:37.560 What's very zero ree ree yep, yeah. 68 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:40.439 It jus barely in range. It's funny looking. I don't 69 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:41.639 think it's a fisherman this time. 70 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:43.839 This is Captain Rader. I'll be right there. 71 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:46.560 Scope's gone crazy. 72 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:49.120 Can't be keep the bridge, Frank, Yes, come on man, 73 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:55.360 this I gotta see. 74 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.560 Okay Johnson, what have you got? Yes, happen. 75 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:04.759 And there is sir, see it's a pip. 76 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:05.680 Then it goes nothing. 77 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:07.360 Scope's going crazy. 78 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:11.920 Come left to course zero three three zero three three, sir, 79 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:15.040 I'll stop. 80 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:26.120 I'll stop there all right, Mike. What do you hear 81 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:26.639 on the bearing? 82 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:35.439 Nothing, sir, not a thing. 83 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:39.360 Pip's gone. Nothing on the scope. 84 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:43.079 Either, must be the radar cappen must be with our luck. 85 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:45.079 Luck can change. 86 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:52.519 Study on course zero three three, All ahead, four, all ahead. 87 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:57.720 You never can tell. There have been false alarms before. 88 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:02.360 The procedure is standard by the maybe one last chance 89 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:05.759 to break the dull leaden monotony that smothers the boat 90 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:10.120 in the forward battery the cruise quarters, another rumor, Hey. 91 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:12.560 We'd picked up speed, really moving. 92 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:14.600 Relaxed burg and they think they got something on the 93 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:17.120 radar again, cards are the players? 94 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:19.839 Come on you guys, I got a wipe. 95 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:25.560 To support by ten fifteen minutes, All ahead full. The 96 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.839 little flurry in the conning tower begins to settle, and then. 97 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.800 Captain there it is, sir. We've got it now, sir, 98 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:33.000 we've got it. 99 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:37.360 Yeah, Man tracking stations. 100 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:40.639 Just one pip and it's a big one. 101 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:41.600 I don't believe it. 102 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:46.879 The men run, there's excitement, no feeling of obedient drill. 103 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:49.759 Even the engines sound different. In the green eye of 104 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:53.680 the radar, the spot grows stronger and holds a chance, 105 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:56.480 one last glimmering chance for the captain to show he's 106 00:06:56.519 --> 00:06:59.279 not a book, to keep his job out there in 107 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:02.439 the night. Something big and fast. 108 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:15.480 Two three three s motorpicks now captain, one big ship 109 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:17.240 and three escorts six econs. 110 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:24.360 It's still a long way off bridge. Yes, sir, you 111 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:25.519 see anything, Frank. 112 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:31.639 Not yet, boks God, but it's blackest pitch. Hen'll we 113 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:32.279 come up to him. 114 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:34.199 We'll come up to him. Just keep your eyes open 115 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.279 when you're ring. Tell those motormacs back then. I give 116 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:37.680 it everything. 117 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:41.759 All I had flank maneuvering. They gloss me all I 118 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:43.680 had black ther What. 119 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:44.680 Do you think we got, Captain? 120 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:46.560 We haven't got him yet? 121 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:49.920 One ship, three escorts must be worth something to the chaps. 122 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:51.079 The moon's coming out. 123 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:52.319 We're getting the board. 124 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:55.920 That's something on sounds. Their heavy screws buring zero four one. 125 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:59.879 Frank got him on sound. Now can you see. 126 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:01.120 I thank you captain? 127 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:07.000 Wait a minute, yeah, yeah, I could jus the bot 128 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:11.680 see a very zero for zero that's him. 129 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:13.000 What do we got, Frank? What is he? 130 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:14.639 A minute? 131 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:17.360 Hold it? 132 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:22.920 Air craft carrier coming right down the. 133 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:27.600 Crow, Battle stations, torpedo make ready on tubes and stand 134 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:30.639 by Uti. 135 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:36.159 Standing by another sick Captain, it's coming right at us. 136 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:38.360 What's the range now? 137 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:41.200 Eight thousand yards? Are closing fast? 138 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:45.120 Light screws on sound destroyer six thousand yards see zecho ranger. 139 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:50.480 Okay, Harris Bridge, what about those escorts molving around? 140 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:50.919 Captain? 141 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:52.360 Looks like they know that stuff. 142 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:54.000 Take it down anytime. 143 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.000 Keep your eye on him, Frank. We're gonna stay up 144 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:57.559 on the firing bearing. 145 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:59.919 Now you mean on the surface for the whole attack. 146 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:02.840 Are looking for something submerged. Just keep those sight bearings coming. 147 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:04.320 We'll stay up as long as we can. 148 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:06.679 Okay, Captain, it's your buddy. 149 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:15.480 Ry mark zero four one range mark seven five double 150 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:16.960 o yards set. 151 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:18.480 He's right on, Captain. 152 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:20.039 How much time done? 153 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:22.480 Set firing point in fifteen seconds? 154 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:24.080 All set? 155 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:25.799 Ready to shoot. 156 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:28.919 Another destroyer, Sir, Light screw's nice meat turning. 157 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:30.799 This week on a destroyer coming right at us. 158 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:33.159 Stand by forward bridge destroyer. 159 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:35.279 I hurt you shooting observation, Come on, give it. 160 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:37.879 To me, break off, Captain diving like, give me. 161 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:45.120 The carrier's bearing very mark, All right, Frank Cletherbridge, get out. 162 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:48.480 Here, zero four nine set. 163 00:09:50.759 --> 00:10:00.200 Fire dive, dive dive. 164 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:08.720 Oh guy. 165 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.600 Left full runner all I had emergency take it down 166 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:24.639 to two hundred feet, all ahead of mergency, rig for 167 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:26.480 depth charge, rig for silent running. 168 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:29.000 Destroyer had us cold captain six hundred yards. Won't have 169 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:29.919 any trouble finding us. 170 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:32.919 Now, destroyer close aboard zero five zero forget the destroyer. 171 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.399 Sound, got on that carrier. Listen for those torpedoes to hit. 172 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:44.759 That's him here he comes, Mac. 173 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:46.159 What's the time on the torpedo? 174 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:49.039 Run seventy seconds? Hit any second? 175 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:49.200 Now? 176 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.919 Down forty feet? Come on, get out to get out. 177 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:55.240 To seventy five seconds. 178 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:57.960 It should be a hit eighty. 179 00:10:58.639 --> 00:10:59.480 He's trying a ram. 180 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:00.159 Hang on on. 181 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:10.360 Missed us? 182 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:12.799 He missed, Harris, did you hear her him? Did you 183 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:16.639 hear anything? No, sir, I don't know that destroyer. I 184 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:17.360 didn't hear anything. 185 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:22.559 Missed, Yeah, we missed. 186 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:23.960 Down seventy feet? 187 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:27.759 All right, sound get on that destroyer. We're playing target now. 188 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:46.759 So how did fat captain? Leveling off? How far at 189 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:54.440 the bottom? Another hundred not so high? 190 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:55.879 That go ranging, sir. 191 00:11:57.759 --> 00:12:00.799 He hasn't got us yet, just poking around. 192 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:10.919 He's slowing down, turning toward us. Now, screws speeding up, 193 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:22.679 shifting short scaled. He's got a contact here it comes. Come, 194 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:29.799 we go on range. He's honest, he's dropped his charges. 195 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:43.080 Three four, All right boys, five, six, seven, eight, hang. 196 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:56.559 On nine, ten, time, all right, imagine for life. 197 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:01.039 We'll turn on lighter, but help me with Harris. 198 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:03.840 It'll turn down. The volume went right through and I 199 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:04.360 get here. 200 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:06.559 I get here, Johnson, Get Harris out of here, get 201 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:07.120 into his buck. 202 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:07.919 Find the pharmacist. 203 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:08.159 Mate. 204 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:10.240 Yes, keep him quiet. 205 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:13.159 Those charges were right on like he looked right down 206 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:13.559 at saws. 207 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.360 Yeah. Oh, I guess we ran into one. 208 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:21.240 Expert Burgan, check all compartments, report all damage, Yes, sir 209 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:23.440 mac get somebody on sound. 210 00:13:23.679 --> 00:13:24.240 I'll do it, so. 211 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:27.799 We're in for it. Captain. 212 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:32.799 Yeah, just hope she stays together. 213 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:39.159 A beating and for nothing. The captain tried. He had 214 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:42.120 his chance. Check through the boat and pray none of 215 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:48.639 the damages beyond small, quiet, repairs small and particularly quiet. 216 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:51.679 After Bilge's flooding, I'll dish in but holding. 217 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:54.799 It's the captain's command. Because they thought he knew his job. 218 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:57.759 They let him go to sea four times with seven 219 00:13:57.799 --> 00:13:59.799 million dollars in the lives of eighty. 220 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:05.200 Two men, Number one and two Airbanks empty diving planes, damage, 221 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:07.600 losing depth control, listens. 222 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:11.320 To the damage. Nothing fatal yet, but it isn't over. 223 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:15.840 There's an expert up there, and he's got all the 224 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:19.440 time in the world and he's going to take it. 225 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.559 We will return to Escape in just a moment. But first, 226 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:36.840 Tomorrow night on Lux Radio Theater, Paul Douglas recreates his 227 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:39.799 original screen role in an adaptation of the film play 228 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:45.159 Fourteen Hours. Terry Moore co stars. Also Tomorrow night, Agnes 229 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:49.360 Moorehead stars in Suspense's thrilling production of Charles Dickens's Eerytail, 230 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:54.080 The Signal Man. Remember on Lux Radio Theater. Paul Douglas 231 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:58.320 in fourteen Hours on Suspense, Agnes Moorehead in The Signalman. 232 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:05.960 Both Tomorrow Night at the Star's Address. Now back to Escape. 233 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:26.360 Captain waits, waits and listens in silence. All operations are 234 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:30.679 done by hand now no pumps, no motors, All necessary 235 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:34.639 movement by silent hands, no air conditioning, no fans, and 236 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:37.360 the temperature climbs to one hundred and twenty five degrees. 237 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:41.320 The boat slants at an odd angle. A bucket brigade 238 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:45.080 bails endlessly from a flooding bilge empties it forward, hoping 239 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:48.720 to level the boat. A working party tries to repair 240 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:50.080 the damaged diving planes. 241 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:57.440 Okay, okay, offs of less dressed. 242 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:05.720 Oh while you get back, h how's it coming? 243 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:05.879 Then? 244 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:06.159 Does it? 245 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:11.399 I can't tell her. She's she's jam good. Might be 246 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:13.639 able to do something. Bust your boy up there, go 247 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:17.840 do the best you can, Uh, sir, but you walking 248 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:21.879 back to the conning tower. Yeah, I'm on a good 249 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:23.240 will to her find sir. 250 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:27.840 But uh, would you mind taking your shoes off? Make 251 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:28.720 a terrible noise? 252 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:32.440 Yeah? 253 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:40.360 Sure, I'm sorry. Silence. Silence means life. Captain Hall walks 254 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:44.440 the ship silently. The men smile weakly as he passes, 255 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:48.720 but underneath he knows what they think. How much longer, Captain? 256 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:52.039 How much more do we have to take? Captain? Is 257 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:55.559 the brains? He knows, he should know. 258 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:12.599 Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. 259 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.000 Captain, we're gonna get out of there, saint way. 260 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:30.400 Yeah, Jensen will get out of it. Yeah, sit tight. 261 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:38.880 Captain Hall makes the good will tour, then back to 262 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:40.000 the conning tower to wait. 263 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:42.720 Wait the silent. 264 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:43.319 Heat and sweat. 265 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:45.599 The ship sweats. 266 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:49.960 Too, thick heavy humidity condensing on every possible surface. Like 267 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:54.920 the steel was porous, like the sea squeezing in. He's 268 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:57.759 seen the men. He led them into this surface attack 269 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:02.599 on the carrier. Be fast, impulse and make sure. But 270 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:07.079 it didn't work. Now work hard to breathe the same 271 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:11.680 foul air they breathed four six ten hours ago. He 272 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:13.559 led them into this and for nothing. 273 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:20.720 Turning this way, here he comes again. 274 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:26.359 Not anymore, not anymore. 275 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:40.079 It must be good leaking oil. That's because of the spot. 276 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:50.480 The bottom three hundred feet that's so bad, it could 277 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:50.960 have been four. 278 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:53.000 It's the oil. 279 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:56.000 That's what he sees. That's all he needs. 280 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:57.279 We're not leaking oil. 281 00:18:57.640 --> 00:18:59.440 God is perfect. He must see something. 282 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:02.279 That's enough. I said, we're not leaking oil. 283 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:06.200 Captain by Jensen. 284 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:08.680 Can we get off the bottom? 285 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:08.920 Sir? 286 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:11.400 Sure? 287 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:15.240 When they get the diving planes in the shape, and 288 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:19.000 when our friend clears the area, we'll get up. 289 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:23.359 Yeah, yeah, sure, we'll get up. 290 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:26.000 Jensen. You want something to do? Take over the sandwatch? 291 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:33.960 Yes, hot, just getting awful hot. 292 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:39.759 How many depth charges you think that Jap's got. 293 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:43.200 Too many, sir, Just too many light screws. 294 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:45.319 They're fading. 295 00:19:46.759 --> 00:19:49.720 He's going way off, gonna get a good run at it. 296 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:51.680 Maybe he thinks he scored a bullseye. 297 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:54.359 Uh huh. He's still good to make that kind of mistake. 298 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:56.359 Thanks, you are a big help. 299 00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:59.079 Go on, kid yourself. It's too hot to argue. 300 00:19:59.440 --> 00:19:59.759 Captain. 301 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:04.359 Maybe does he think he got us. 302 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:09.759 Jensen? Can you still hear him? 303 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:13.440 Just barely, sir, just barely. 304 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:17.119 He's gone now, sir, I can't hear him. 305 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:17.720 Captain. 306 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:24.720 Yeah, he's smart. Lie out there and wait, see if 307 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:28.279 we move. And that's the way we got to look 308 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:28.559 at it. 309 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:30.880 Hmm. 310 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:39.039 There's one thing he doesn't know. He gotta wait anyway. 311 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:44.119 All right, settle down, you're all right. 312 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:46.839 Sick so much? 313 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:49.200 Should open the window. It sounds terrible in there. 314 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:53.960 Shut up, shut him up, it's all right. I'm all right. 315 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:55.200 You better go to your bunk. 316 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:56.240 Oh, sir, I'm alright. 317 00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:56.960 I like it here. 318 00:20:57.799 --> 00:20:59.519 I wouldn't know what was going on in my bunk. 319 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:07.799 Fourteen hours, fourteen hours, and the destroyer still up there 320 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:10.359 and he can't be heard now. But there's a sense 321 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:12.680 a feel to it, like an animal in the night 322 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:16.079 that isn't seen. He's sunk subs before and knows how 323 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:19.599 long a sub can hold out. The physical things, battery power, 324 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:23.640 air life is gauged on those, but the men. The 325 00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:25.880 captain tells himself that he can hold out as long 326 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:27.680 as necessary, but the men can take. 327 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:28.160 Just so much. 328 00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:32.319 Which is worse a depth charge attack or waiting for 329 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:33.759 the next one? 330 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:38.000 Captain yapman? Does it diving plan? Working party? Just about 331 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:41.680 complete repair? Oh what about it? Waiting for an ances? 332 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:41.839 Sir? 333 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:45.920 She for the party requests permission for one smack with 334 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:49.960 a ten pound sledge. Well, is he crazy? You can 335 00:21:50.039 --> 00:21:53.680 hear that through the water for ten miles, she says, 336 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:55.920 One good smack would free the plane, sir. 337 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:02.640 Sound hear anything, fish, sir, Just fish out there. 338 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:08.759 Captain, Maybe he has god, but the plane's working, Sir. 339 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:10.200 We'd be our own boss again. 340 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:20.359 Frank, you're the captain, sir. What's the difference? 341 00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:22.599 Don't don't let him captain here and I know you'll 342 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:24.400 hear it. 343 00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:25.599 Sound make a full sweep? 344 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:32.519 Nothing, sir, nothing at all? 345 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:37.000 How came in? Does a permission? Granted one smack? Thank you? Sir? 346 00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:43.079 I think Plaine party permission granted one smack? Make it 347 00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:49.079 good acknowledge, sir, stand by. 348 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:52.599 I can hear that all the way to Tokio. 349 00:22:54.839 --> 00:22:57.559 Echo, ranging I told you, I told you. 350 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:06.640 Shut him up, stop him, sit on him. 351 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:22.440 He's turning coming at us. He's dropping the way to starboard. 352 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:24.599 He didn't get the range. He's not sure. 353 00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:29.440 He's turned away, Sir, going away at high speed. 354 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:30.799 He lost us, Captain, he lost us. 355 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:33.559 Then does a report from that damage party reporting? 356 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:35.759 Now, Sir, Our planes works there. 357 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:37.279 It's a jury rig, but they work. 358 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:38.799 Captain. 359 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:41.039 You think we could try to get out of here. 360 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:43.960 Let's do it, Captain. We've got battery, but not much longer. 361 00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:45.319 If we can get up there, Sir, even if he's 362 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:48.400 still there, we got torpedoes. It's better than being blown 363 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:49.200 apart down here. 364 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:56.240 All right, battle station surface, make ready our tubes and 365 00:23:56.359 --> 00:24:02.640 stand by. Surface surface surface. 366 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:17.720 Thirty feet leveling off. 367 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:30.519 Up periscope, stand by looking around. 368 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:39.559 M hmm, this sun is just setting full sweep. 369 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:56.480 Surface stand by, All tubes ready on all four engines. 370 00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:03.079 That's just clear. All right, Open the wrap. Let's get 371 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:03.400 some air. 372 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:14.359 Smell smell that old boy. 373 00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:16.519 Open the main induction. Start the floors. 374 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:23.119 I can't see anything. 375 00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:25.640 We're clear nothing to port. 376 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:29.880 Wait a minute, look at the sea, Captain, out there. 377 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:35.640 Oil oil as far as you can see, to bree take. 378 00:25:35.480 --> 00:25:37.079 A big ship to put out that much junk. 379 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:39.839 Frank, you see if, captain, that's why that baby gave 380 00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:41.400 us what you're working over. You know what it means? 381 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:42.640 Yeah, I see it. 382 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:45.559 That's why the escort broke off attack probably went back 383 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:46.799 to pick ups his survivors. 384 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:52.519 What do you know, Conning Tower, that's the word. We 385 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:57.559 got the carrier right for rudder, set a course for home. 386 00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:07.599 The course is due east to the captain. The air 387 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:13.160 smells fresh and sweet. Home with eighty two men eighteen 388 00:26:13.319 --> 00:26:17.319 torpedoes left out of twenty four. But a captain who 389 00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:20.680 sinks a carrier doesn't have to worry about a desk 390 00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:31.200 job anymore. December sixteenth, nineteen forty four, USS Amberfish SS 391 00:26:31.319 --> 00:26:36.079 five nine three completed her fourth war patrol. After experiencing 392 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:40.680 severe depth charging from enemy forces, she surfaced and confirmed 393 00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:44.960 sinking of large aircraft carrier, then set. 394 00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:46.480 Course for Pearl Harbor. 395 00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:02.000 Under the direction of Anthony Ellis. Escape Has Brought You 396 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:06.119 Pressure by Richard Chandley, starring William Conrad as the captain, 397 00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:09.680 with Larry Thor as the narrator. Featured in the cast 398 00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:14.119 were Bob Sweeney, high Everbach, Herbellus, Jerry Hausner, Frank Gerstell, 399 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:18.759 Kurt Martel and Eddie Firestone. Sound effects were by Gus Bays, 400 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.200 Ralph Cummings and Jack six Smith. The special music for 401 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:25.559