USS Pargo 'The Pargo's Lucky Seventh'

[@jimlaguardia8185]

I hope all you US vets out there understand how much we American patriots deeply appreciate, respect and honor your service to the greatest nation on Earth. We salute you!

[@jstetzer01]

Thank you. U.S. Army 1SG retired.. Two of my Uncles served in WW2. One was a Submariner. They made it home. I did too.😎

[@iananderson1848]

This a good example of how since 1942 why Australia has been USA closest ally post WW2 . We have served with the US Army in every conflict since except Grenada . No Aussies invited on that one . From a friend of the magnificent USA in Queensland Australia.

[@boogerdog5247]

@@iananderson1848 My father-in-law was at Guadalcanal, Army...malaria, the whole works...did some R&R in Australia, and was fond of FOSTER'S BEER...In late 90's, at a nursing home, days actually numbered, he mentioned FOSTER'S Beer, he had no idea they were available states side...so, I made a run, fetched him a big tall cold FOSTER'S and he had a grand reunion with his old beer friend! I had an Uncle, who passed in 61', who was on Bornio, and a cousin, who was a tanker in Europe. I served briefly on the Sealion, around 68...she was a famous boat in WWII, sunk the Kongo battleship. It's the only recorded audio of an attack on an enemy ship in WWII by a U.S. submarine. The Sealion is featured in this series. I watched this program, as a kid, and Twentieth Century and Victory At Sea. Salute, to our Aussie brothers in arms!

[@jimbosan710]

Thanks! US Navy 1962-1965.

[@robertstack2144]

All us Vets appreciate you patriots and your love for our country. Unfortunately our politicians in the country think more of themselves and less of the US Constitution. We need a reformation in the Country and hold certain individuals responsible for treason and murder. Our FBI has become a politically jaded entity

[@chrisullery3386]

As a former USS Pargo trooper on the nuclear powered Pargo I have to say that I love this short film

[@jeffgreen7499]

Here's a surprise...The Pargo's skipper LCDR David R. Bell, played in this episode by actor John Pickard: From 1942 to 1946, John Pickard served in the United States Navy, and he was the model for naval recruitment posters during World War II!

[@johnrogan9420]

Rochard Jaeckel played the Captain on another episode. He also served 4 years in the WW2 Navy.

[@chrisyunge8569]

Blessed be the day when our heros were real, not criminals.😎

[@johncox2865]

When we didn’t have a rapist running for president?

[@richardpehtown2412]

@4:44 The Martian with three eyes from The Twilight Zone. He would make a good lookout LOL.

[@daleburrell6273]

...WASN'T HE FROM VENUS(?) THE GUY WITH MULTIPLE ARMS WAS FROM MARS-(!)

[@avatarlilacwolf]

For sure! 😁✨

[@avatarlilacwolf]

@@daleburrell6273 that's right 😀

[@peterbrowne5589]

It’s good to see Michael Pate playing a Australian commando (I don’t know why he had to put on a phoney accent as he was a Aussie ). Michael was born (26 Feb 1920) & grew up in Sydney Australia. In 1950 he moved to USA & appeared over 300 tv shows & big screen movies. ( played a Indian many times) 1968 he returned to Sydney where he lived until his death at the age 88 on 1 September 2008.

[@daleburrell6273]

He even played an Arab in an episode of the "Rat Patrol". I think his worst role was when he played a mean Limey officer in an episode of the "Time Tunnel".

[@maddyg3208]

He was also a Pacific War army veteran, though mainly in entertaining troops.

[@jamessmith530]

I liked pate lived in Sydney

[@pisstinpete4700]

Pates giant teeth would have given his position away

[@erikhertzer8434]

Finally found the lyrics to the theme song: Take her down and softly glide Thru the deep blue underneath the ocean, We'll control the ocean wide From down, down, underneath the sea. Torpedos crash and missiles roar, Thats the music underneath the ocean From down below we'll up the score Of the ships on the bottom of the sea Say some toasts and pass the word, In the future yet to be That we're safe as long as there's A submariner underneath the sea. So rig for dive and take her down Go down, down underneath the ocean, Fearless men will find renown In the deep blue underneath the sea.

[@matrox]

+Erik Hertzer Cool...I was looking for these lyrics.

[@donwolfe3342]

Erik Hertzer ..

[@daleburrell6273]

I WAS LOOKING FOR THESE LYRICS!!!

[@daleburrell6273]

It looks like the second stanza was overlooked(?)

[@s.sestric9929]

@@daleburrell6273 No missiles in WWII.

[@austinevplab7167]

That emergency blow I understand was a test of the sub’s limits. From 150 feet down (by one account) it blew out of the water at nearly 50 degrees. Crazy.

[@hokiesailor]

I served on Pargo's (SS-264) successor SSN-650 from 11/1984 to 10/1986. SS-264's battle flag was displayed in our crew's mess. Not much action since we were in a shipyard overhaul period during my time. Thanks for posting.

[@taylor7772]

hokiesailor thank you for my service my grandfather was a submariner too

[@daleburrell6273]

...THAT WAS A HECK OF A LONG TIME AGO-!!!

[@chrisullery3386]

I was on the SSN 650 Pargo 1977-1978. Did sea trials after refit in general dynamics. Virgin islands, Puerto Rico, then had to go to Virginia after a torpedo hit the stern! Crazy shit.

[@clearingbaffles]

Forward or aft of frame 44

[@jimlaguardia8185]

hokiesailor Thank you for your service!

[@BobGeogeo]

The closing chat about souvenirs and a sea shell ash tray... so much a sign of a part of military culture in its day and many years later (experience as a USAF brat, not my own service)

[@180mph9]

Wow, just when you think you’ve heard it all, great outcome.

[@welshpete12]

What a remarkable story , and so nice it had a happy ending ! :-)

[@daleburrell6273]

...YOU BETCHER LIFESAVERS-!!!

[@AGlass-dv6uz]

My grandfather served on this submarine this is so cool

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

If I was so incredibly lucky to have our family just get its first TV and at 10 years old to get to watch this every week. Portland where the station was was 60 miles away so our antenna had to be exactly aimed and of course it was black and white just like these shows. I find these shows even more entertaining now 60 years later than even then. The seanettle vs uboat late in the war shows the vast distance we had come with undersea technology during the war, probably the highest advance was radar for making this tiny craft equal to any in the sea to whack the enemy. Sound equipment gained in ability hundreds times during this conflict. The fact the seanettle won its battle was strictly either luck or god's will that the nazi boats fish just barely missed down each side or the seanettles report would not have come to us. The nazi skipper was as good or better than our best

[@topgeardel]

Cool memory. I remember the intro on each series from my childhood...so I assume I watched the whole thing. I remember being in awe how that sub comes shooting out of the water. I also remember our TVs back then being really lousy.

[@donf3877]

@fred McMurray I (we) were lucky. Growing up in Toledo Ohio, with the rotor dad could swing the antenna around and pick up the Canadian station out of Windsor across the lake. HE controlled the rotor... but I was still the remote!

[@robertle3038]

24:24 That ashtray is worth a fortune today.

[@GermanShepherd1983]

But no one smokes any more

[@Acc0rd79]

And after all of that she probably still said she wasn't ready to marry him:) LOL

[@daleburrell6273]

15:29...THAT was sure as HELL a DANGEROUS thing to do-!!!

[@avatarlilacwolf]

4:34-5:45 the Venusian from the Twilight Zone

[@docbailey3265]

Yep. I kept looking for his third eye.

[@johnrogan9420]

3rd eye

[@bruceontheloose1708]

tin cans for sure. i worked on the nuc reactors on fast attack subs in 82-86 boomers where even huger. called the missle room sherwood forest.

[@johncaldwell-wq1hp]

THAT GENTLEMAN PLAYING COMMANDO "DENNIS"WAS AUSSIE ACTOR MICHAEL PATE,-ONE GREAT AUSSIE ACTOR AND W.W.2 VET !--I SAW HIM IN MANY STAGE-PLAYS,AROUND SYDNEY--AN "ALL ROUND GREAT BLOKE !"-& PATRIOT--R.I.P.--

[@johnthompson6550]

Great story and greater ending!

[@daleburrell6273]

John Thompson YOU BETCHER LIFESAVERS-!!!

[@johnpower8356]

Excellent 👌 love these

[@allandavis8201]

The mysterious art of navigation under the sea alludes me, I just can’t understand how you can, especially in the early days of submarines, navigate without being able to see, even the surface ships have the sun,moon and stars that they can, if need be use, obviously there are dark arts, lol, to undersea navigation, otherwise they would be running aground or into submerged obstacles. Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative docudrama giving a glimpse into the mysterious world of the submariner. Very very brave men, and families they had to leave behind. 👍. Something that is also great, although sometimes annoying, is the way you can tell by the very wooden and monotone way the presenter and his special guests speak that this is a 1950s era program and they are not used to being in front of the cameras, but a small price to pay for such historical events being told to us history geeks.

[@timengineman2nd714]

Mainly Dead Reckoning. "We think we were here when we submerged, headed on Course XXX for 30 minutes at Speed Y knots so we should be about here --- --- we hope! Sometimes Sonar helped by detecting breaking waves on a known reef or rock or island.... One US Submarine escaped by Sonar detecting the sound of certain sea life that lived in shallow reefs and maneuvered clear before she hit the (totally underwater) reef! (Passive sonar aka hydroplanes)

[@daleburrell6273]

...THEY USED OUIJA BOARDS(?!) (how's THAT for a stupid answer?!)

[@daleburrell6273]

7:38...throwing 4 torpedoes at one lousy tin can?! Well, at least they GOT 'em-!!

[@timengineman2nd714]

Just remember that a Destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, and small target! Also, please remember that unlike a cruiser or battleship, a Destroyer can kill you during a Counter-Attack!!! So, during WW2, unless the conditions were favorable, you very rarely fired less than 3 torpedos at a tin can....

[@MIck-M]

I seem to be the only one in comments that noticed 'Ranger Matt Hammond' from Skippy - the cheesiest Australian show ever made for American television hehe.

[@maddyg3208]

You're thinking of Ed Devereaux.

[@buddylight2191]

Fate: Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program begun 1 October 1994, completed 15 October 1996

[@ThomasCullen-jp4fy]

Woody Island in the Paracels is flat as a pancake. Chinese Navy and the South Vietnamese fought a battle there in the early 70's. I was a Mandarin linguist and listened to tapes of the fighting when in training right out of language school.

[@stevenhj3124]

I enjoy these episodes of the Silent Service. I was very young back then. What I don't understand is why the Admiral never mentions the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan that ended the war. ☮

[@topgeardel]

Wow! Since this is supposed to be true, that's quite a story.

[@amadeusamwater]

Some of the Admiral's guests are clearly long service Navy men, since this show was on over a decade after the war ended.

[@jz422]

I've always wondered if a sub sent out a series of pings of the same frequency as the enemy, could it mess up depth readings?

[@jaywinters2483]

God protected the missionary’s daughter

[@johncook1885]

The Japanese didn't take no missionary prisoners.The Japanese murdered them on site women and children too.

[@maddyg3208]

Beg to differ. There's plenty of images of missionaries (including nuns) after being released from Japanese captivity at the end of the war

[@daleburrell6273]

11:13 ...it could have been a lot WORSE- at least you weren't SUNK!!!!

[@petejoseph8257]

Paul had his pig sticker that day....

[@matrox]

Its the Doc from 12:00 High tv series at 4:53min.

[@davidmarquardt2445]

He also played a man from Venus in the Twilight Zone. I remember one actor on 12 o Clock High who played 5 roles! He was a gunner in 1 episode, ground crew on another, then pilot. Then he switched sides and got promoted to a German colonel, and then got busted down to a private in the infantry. They probably only got $250 or whatever the going rate was back then. And a month later he might play a Mexican cowboy on Bonanza.

[@daleburrell6273]

@@davidmarquardt2445 He was a voice actor on radio shows too.

[@daleburrell6273]

@@davidmarquardt2445 He was in 4 episodes of the Twilight Zone: he also played a TV repairman, a U.S. Army officer, and one other role.

[@daleburrell6273]

David Marquardt ...possibly.

[@avatarlilacwolf]

@@daleburrell6273 yes! He played as a manager in Minature

[@johnrogan9420]

Turned shell from rescue operation into an ashtray. .good grief!

[@petejoseph8257]

Woody island ?

[@brpitrepeters7983]

Could have done without the love story.. Were people melodramatic like that back then ???

[@jamesberlo4298]

True story ! how cool is that ?

[@robscott8296]

6:42 GQ

[@davidc.kentjr.9964]

the rank insignia is incorrect on the XO

[@clearingbaffles]

David C. Kent, Jr. he’s a lieutenant O-3 was he called something else?

[@davidc.kentjr.9964]

Gene Murphy I believe I may have been talking about the position on the collar we all when having shirt on put them on incorrectly when in that way

[@clearingbaffles]

David C. Kent, Jr. I had a guy working for me once new shirt added a stripe ironed on the crow/insignia behind the crease of sleeve

[@stanfordcoffee]

PVT.. Paul Blair. - PVT? 6 years in the Australian armed services during World War II and still a private? Who's cornflakes did he poop in?

[@MrOlgrumpy]

Wearing helmets ?? not likely

[@daleburrell6273]

HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?!!

[@TheFalconJetDriver]

Great stories however the Rear Admiral should have know how to pronounce the City of Norfolk he was certainly a yankee The city is pronounced Nor Fuck you cant be afraid to say it. Not nahfock like he said even worse for an Admiral to not know how to properly address the worlds largest Naval Base. now I will admit that there are natives of Norfolk around Granby Ave Norcome area. That prounce the city similar to the yankee Admiral. I know because grew up in the area.

[@johnemerson1363]

Sorry guys, I pronounce it just like it is spelled. Norfolk

[@michaelfuller2153]

Actually...he was from New Orleans!

[@23draft7]

Nic pic, Nic pic. People good at it, sadly.

[@dickylobster]

When I was a 19yo teenager in 1967, I served on the CARP SS338

[@IanG-uf2fq]

Really awful video resolution.

[@johncox2865]

This was filmed a long time ago. The celluloid may have deteriorated.

[@johncook1885]

The Japanese didn't take no missionary prisoners.The Japanese murdered them on site women and children too.

[@dannz2603]

Well I prefer to take the word and believe the facts as presented in this true story.

[@daleburrell6273]

Not ALWAYS! It depended a lot on the circumstances, and on the kind of officers in charge. There were decent people on BOTH sides- but you seldom heard about THEM...it was always the STINKERS that got all the publicity!

[@txnetcop]

www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/pow/ww2/civilian_internees/ The nature of civilian internment varied from region to region. Some civilians were interned soon after invasion; in other areas the process occurred over many months. In total, approximately 130,000 Allied civilians were interned by the Japanese during this period of occupation. The exact number of internees will never be known as records were often lost, destroyed, or simply not kept. The backgrounds of the internees were diverse. There was a large proportion of Dutch from the Dutch East Indies, but they also included Americans, British, and Australians. They included missionaries and their families, colonial administrators, and business people. Many had been living in the colonies for decades. Single women had often been nuns, missionaries, doctors, teachers and nurses.

[@docbailey3265]

I’ve read accounts of missionaries captured by the Japanese. Witherell Johnson comes to mind. The Japanese weren’t that rough on them.

[@donaldhill3823]

articles.latimes.com/1986-02-15/news/mn-8191_1_prison-camp You might want to brush up on some actual history. this is one of many stories you can find on the subject.