HUNTER KILLER ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE U.S. NAVY FILM 30102

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This 1954 issue of the U.S. Navy's Screen Magazine features the Hunter Killer Team -- the work of anti-submarine warfare as conducted by the men of the fleet. An adaptation of an episode of the TV show "See it Now", this film presents a compelling look at the ASW problem as it existed in the early 1950s. It features the USS Gilbert Islands CVE-107, operating off the coast of the U.S. East Coast with a group of destroyers including USS Owen (DD-536), a Fletcher-class destroyer. The USS Becuna (SS/AGSS-319), a Balao-class submarine, is also seen in the film, working as the target for the ASW team. USS Gilbert Islands is equipped with both fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft which search out the submarine.
USS Gilbert Islands (CVE-107) (ex-St. Andrews Bay) was a Commencement Bay class escort carrier of the United States Navy.
She was launched on 20 July 1944 the Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Tacoma, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. Edwin D. McMorries; and commissioned on 5 February 1945, Captain L. K. Rice in command.
She was reclassified as AGMR-1 on 1 June 1963, renamed USS Annapolis on 22 June 1963 and finally recommissioned on 7 March 1964.
Towed to Philadelphia in November 1949, Gilbert Islands recommissioned on 7 September 1951 and put in at Boston on 25 November for overhaul. She joined the Atlantic Fleet on 1 August 1952, sailed 8 days later with a cargo of jets for Yokohama, Japan, arriving 18 September, and returned to her homeport of Quonset Point, R.I. on 22 October. She sailed on 5 January 1953 for the Caribbean to conduct training exercises off Cuba and returned to New England waters to continue these duties through the summer and fall of the year. Following a cruise to Halifax and overhaul at Boston, the escort carrier stood out on 5 January 1954 for a Mediterranean cruise, returning to Quonset Point on 12 March 1954 for reserve training and other exercises. She became the first of her class to have jets make touch-and-go landings on the flight deck while she had no way on, a dangerous experiment successfully conducted on 9 June 1954. She left Rhode Island on 25 June for Boston and decommissioned there on 15 January 1955.
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@jingram58 5 жыл бұрын

USS Owen DD-536, part of this hunter-killer group, had a very impressive combat record. 9 battle stars in World War II, 2 more in the Korean conflict. Beautiful Fletcher-class destroyer.

@jimtownsend7899 3 жыл бұрын

The difference between Edward R. Murrow and a Naval Aircrewman is that Murrow can get a flight jacket. That was also the way we could tell an Aircrewman from a Storekeeper. The SK was the one with a flight jacket.

@oceanmariner 7 жыл бұрын

I was on a destroyer in the late 60s that was part of an asw group. A WWII built carrier and a destroyer squadron specialized in asw. In training we had no problem with the diesel electric subs, but but the nukes won almost every time. They were too fast and too quiet. By the early 70s all the asw carriers were retired.

@daveybernard1056 5 жыл бұрын

Were you guys still running Hedghog in the 60's?

@Traveler20091 4 жыл бұрын

Davey Bernard , my ship DD508 was.

@PauloPereira-jj4jv 2 жыл бұрын

Conventional subs are much more quiet than nuclear subs. They're more difficult to detect. Even today.

@geoben1810 4 жыл бұрын

I was assigned to Patron Two Four, (VP 24 since decommissioned) an ASW Squadron based out of NAS JAX FLA The Sqaudron used P3 Orions, 4 engine prop aircraft to hunt and track Soviet subs that would run down the Atlantic on their way south. We deployed a couple of times a year to Iceland and Sicily as part of NATO duty. Good duty except for winter in Iceland. Cold, and only 4 hrs of daylight. PO3 '73>'77 ✌🏻🇺🇸

@Chris_at_Home 3 жыл бұрын

I was in VP23 from 72-75. I did both Sicily and Rota/Azores deployments. I also did UNITAS 14 in 73.. My older brother was on. A diesel boat and then a Nuke Fast Attack after teaching sonar school for shore duty.He was a Chief Sonar Tech. He did 12 years and had the crap scared out of him after his last patrol and wanted to watch his family grow up. So he got out. I was an AX2 when I got out after 4 years. You talk about the cold as bad. Four years after I got,out I moved to Alaska and spent most of my working career north of the Arctic Circle. I had those jobs where you work a few weeks and then fly home for a few weeks off.

@johnemerson1363 3 жыл бұрын

I was VP 23, Brunswick, Maine. Did time in Sigonella among other places and a tour in Iceland in SP2H, Neptunes. Did 20 years reserve in VP 65 in P3B's and did westpac. You're right--good duty. AWCS on retirement.

@Chris_at_Home 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnemerson1363 My older brother was in VP 10 mid 60s He was an AO and they flew in P2s&3s. He was in a fire while loading photo flash cartridges in a P2 that put him in the hospital for a very long time. I was about 11 or 12 when that happened. We grew up in Ct but we both have lived in Alaska since the late 70s.

@Chris_at_Home 3 жыл бұрын

Did you know Alan Van Dyke? I’m pretty sure he was in VP 24 starting in summer of 72. We went to C school together and I helped him drive his van from Pax Rvr to Dallas on a 4 of July weekend.

@johnemerson1363 3 жыл бұрын

@@Chris_at_Home I vaguely remember the accident but have no real memory of it. VP 23 was on one end of the hangers and VP 10 was at the other, It was also well over 50 years ago.

@jamesanderton344 5 жыл бұрын

Had a unique experience aboard the Becuna in Philadelphia 25 years ago. Several of her WW2 crew were having lunch aboard...they were volunteers with the boat to keep her up as a sightseeing attraction. They showed me some amazing technology and told stories about dangerous cruises in the Pacific including being bombed by a Betty while charging batteries. Cork insulation flying off the plating from the concussion. They said that if not handled properly it was easy to lose control in a crash dive. Those guys were incredibly brave. The boat was modified post war and looks a lot more sleek than she did in WW2.

@Deadeye313 4 жыл бұрын

The commodore half seemed like he knew the real first indication of a sub in the area would likely be one of his ships exploding despite no enemy ships or planes nearby.

@romanpendzich1781 4 жыл бұрын

What are the single engine planes with the radar domes under the belly? 11:00 or so.

@brucewelty7684 4 жыл бұрын

Grumman Guardians www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=1260 . I normally do not run a search for others. However, the announcer corrupted the name so disastrously, I WANTED to know also.