Thank you for the posting . My grandfather worked as a welder at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during WW2. I remember him telling me as a child of the gruesome work of the welders who often found body parts in the wreckage of these ships amongst others the USS Franklin. In such films one doesn’t see or smell the carnage in these ships that was left behind. God bless the greatest generation; always in our hearts.
@wrightmf4 жыл бұрын
I don't know how someone has to deal with that. I've never been in a situation like that. I have heard of mechanics that service a train, of one that recently hit a pedestrian. There's bits of body and clothing still in the framework underneath.
@moremoneyfordreadnoughts11004 жыл бұрын
I didn't see Gehres in there, but the JG meeting the sailors heading out on liberty at the end was one of the Franklin's officers who lived through the hell the ship saw. The film seems to be illustrating the easy-going, complacent, almost frilly life aboard a new carrier not in harm's way -- curtains on the open porthole, desks crowded with family pictures, even payphones aboard ship. (Today's carriers have Starbucks, at sea!) The short bit of footage showing scorched bulkheads inside Franklin are supposed to give a shot of reality, but they do not even begin to show the horrific destruction done to that ship and crew. The most damaged ship ever to reach home port under her own power. The most decorated crew in Navy history. Franklin was fully repaired but went into the reserve (mothball) fleet. She was passed over for modernization and reactivation because she was seen as compromised in her physical integrity. She was cut up for scrap to feed Japanese smelters in the 60s.
@lindanwfirefighter49734 жыл бұрын
So now a days they poison the crew with 100% GMO Starbucks products! That’s so they don’t have to pay retirement benefits for long.
@CSRIII4 жыл бұрын
My Dad was on the Franklin and said the real reason for never reactivating the ship was that they never could get the smell of death out.
@markdavis24754 жыл бұрын
Ive read a lot about the Franklin and seen the longer film on YT. Never seen the interior shots though. Thought-provoking. RIP 800 crew who died.
@B1900pilot3 жыл бұрын
Captain Gehres and the XO CDR Joe Taylor are the two talking in the CO's stateroom after the Marine orderly takes orders from the Captain. The young sailor is having a talk with LCDR O'Callahan the catholic chaplain who was awarded the Medal of Honor. Two of the officers playing bridge are LT Gary and LCDR Jurika. LT Gary was awarded the Medal of Honor and LCDR Jurika was the ship's navigator...
@wtfbuddy14 жыл бұрын
Interesting even without sound
@12504133 жыл бұрын
Both Air Plot and CIC were in the gallery deck area on the Franklin. Only one man, an officer, made it out of the CIC. Those two areas, adjacent to each other, were directly over head the first Bombs detonation in the hanger deck. The vapor explosion from the parked planes in the hanger deck killed almost everyone above the main deck aft of the second elevator. This room , with all the charred communications gear is undoubtedly one of those compartments.
@knightwatchman4 ай бұрын
In 1951 my father was in the Navy and stationed at Bayonne where the Franklin was mothballed. He was assigned night watches on it and told us that the smell of burnt flesh still lingered all over that ship. He even described what he thought was the ship creaking, moaning and groaning as if it were in pain.
@gillbarry86812 жыл бұрын
I though there was something wrong with my audio settings.. Oh well.. What I cannot in any way understand is how Leslie E. Gehres continued to climb the ranks through to Admiral. He should have been reduced in ranks, not rewarded. The way he treated his on men on the Franklin he deserved a dishonorable discharge.
@coolconfuzer Жыл бұрын
Ahh boo hoo!! Suck it up snowflake. The guy was an aviator and a navel commander and broke records climbing through the ranks.
@johnmcnaught74534 жыл бұрын
Every few years during my Navy career we went to DC (Damage Control) school and made to sit through the fight to save the Franklin Movies, ( no tape or digital presentations in those days) produced as training aids . Very sobering stuff.
@peace-now2 жыл бұрын
Did you see Father Joe in the films? I always remember him in the footage. His two brothers were admirals.
@williammorris584Ай бұрын
Capt Gehres got one of the least deserved Navy Crosses ever awarded. This was probably to avoid embarrassment of the Navy when a number of the crew deservedly recieved Navy Crosses and two the Medal of Honor. His behavior before, during and after the Franklin’s ordeal led to his relief and he never subsequently had a command afloat.
@waynebrinker80954 жыл бұрын
Without sound, I don't understand the purpose of this strange little film. ....but the Franklin damage was interesting.