The Navy Way (1944) WORLD WAR II

Stars: Robert Lowery, Jean Parker, William Henry
Director: William Berke
Writer: Maxwell Shane
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.

[@stevefarris9433]

December 1954/March 1955. Seventeen and weighed 127 lbs. 12 weeks later weighed in at 165. 3 squares and lots of exercise and sleep turned me into a bigger person. The regimentation was what I needed. Coldest February I have ever known. The Navy paid for me to see the world. Saw things that most people only dream about and some I wish I could forget.. Spent 23 years and have been retired for 43 years and still miss it. Volunteered in submarines. Loved it.

[@craigsteffner9743]

1955 Gen Hugh J Gaffey. Xmas, New Years at Sea. Oakland, SF , Yokohama Eleven days. Working in the Mess Clipper. Two years later rtn by air. Wake Island, Midway, Japan, Wake again. Hickam ..Travis.. +++ Loved it all. No one dare burning flags then. A kneeler might wake up in the ICU.

[@jockellis]

My father joined the navy Feb. 8, 1942 weighing 117 lbs. Seventeen days later he was 134.

[@rexgriffin4250]

Submariner here too. 21 years. COB

[@edwardwillis8197]

Thank you for your service.

[@stevefarris9433]

@@craigsteffner9743 Or not wake up period.

[@dalewilson8476]

Enlisted October 1966, I was 17, retired Jan 21 1994. Loved every moment.

[@rogerhuber3133]

Pretty corny recruiting film but I enjoyed it! Spent 6 years in the Navy starting in Great Lakes. My boot camp memories are nothing like this film shows but marching and singing Anchors Aweigh still gives me some good memories. The Navy was the best thing to happen to me.

[@howardkoontz4735]

Followed my Father. He went in Dec 9,41(GL) to 1946. SS3 (Tailor) I went in 12/13/68 (GL) retired 08/13/2003. Ranked from HA to HMCS (8404), WO1 to WO3 to LT. He always said he wanted to retire. I retired for him and me.

[@bobcourtier4674]

I spent the summer of 61 at Great Lakes, we kept our clothes stops in our ditty bag. It was really hot, no ac, the grinder was miserable. There weren’t any dames. The movie leaves out the haircuts, we got one every week. This is a recruiting film.

[@railroad9000]

My dad served in the Navy in WWII and Korea. My brother and I served in the Navy during Vietnam!

[@catherinehelms3721]

Example of true American people and what makes our country the greatest I love this movie God bless us all

[@JohnChoque]

From Reno, NV; June 1972 Worm Island, San Diego NTC; 90 graduated basic training, 87 assigned to Vietnam, the other 3: Orlando, Virginia Beach, and I went to Norfolk, VA, NOB Pier 4... USS Rigel AF-58; Med, N. Sea, Atlantic, and Gitmo... first cruise a deck ape, then worked my way up to quartermaster for the next 13 cruises... the crew was pulled off the ship to relieve crews in Vietnam, but we never went. QM3, Honorable Discharge June 1978. Now as retired trucker, I'm building a new missionary church in Boulder, CO! What a life we all live... I'm happy to be alive though, but 6 of my Wooster High School friends never made it back from Vietnam. And also, I vividly remember all of us in Oakland giving the oath... it was emotional. God bless us all.

[@charlesmitchell8516]

I went through Great Lakes. I still remember the night we arrived. They were still using some of those old barracks made of wood. The pieces we drilled with, if I remember correctly, were Springfields.

[@dalewilson8476]

Charles Mitchell I went through San Diego boot camp, in 66 .we also used the old Springfield...

[@moneygaming4290]

When I went we drill with mops.

[@terrencegurnee3166]

so did I 1961

[@richards3390]

Charles Mitchell The new

[@ziblot1235]

Glakes here too. 009 Jan 2 to Mar 12 69. Orlando wasnt opened yet. Everybody in our company was from SOuth Jersey and Philly wxcept for us 5 guys from Petersburg VA. Real language barrier.

[@johnanderson3161]

nt to Great Lakes May 29, 1965. Graduated In August. Movie brought back some memories. Good.

[@billludolph1696]

One place I was TAD to was out in the channel islands off of Santa Barbara California about sixties miles off the California coast, and are barracks was made of wood pre WW11 and we had to move more than once due to several of us sailors falling through the floor.

[@williambufford7658]

I went through Great Lakes in 1948. The only time I think I ever saw Main Side was for graduation. Spent all of my time in Camp Moffett. As someone said this was completely a recruiting movie. None of those guys had that beautiful hair cuts that we had. We didn't wear blues or dress whites except for that final time. Blues have to be dry cleaned. I sure wish I had had all of the time off that these had. We had one six hour liberty during the three months there.

[@gerrynightingale9045]

*How much rust did you scrape when you weren't busy 'saluting' every 30-seconds?*

[@stevefarris9433]

It was pretty much the same in 1955. 23 years in submarines.

[@bigriceburner]

Great lakes "OS-A" school 1978. The best part was coming back home on leave through a series of trains, through Kenosha and Waukegan and onto Amtrak to St. Louis. Fun train trips.

[@Outlier999]

When this movie 🎥 came out my sailor father had been in naval combat in the Pacific for close to three years. Most of the actors, including Robert Lowery, never served. He never 👎 liked films 🎥 that made WW2 look like fun.

[@allandavis8201]

I can understand why your father felt the way he did, must have seemed like a huge slap in the face knowing that the actors were safely in Hollywood getting paid handsomely for playing at being servicemen, and all time he and his comrades were literally fighting for their lives, the very existence of the USA and the free world, he had every right to feel at least insulted and worse betrayed by his country, however propaganda films needed to be made and they also needed a star to ensure that the public would watch them and in turn bolster morale and sales of war bonds, even the USA couldn’t afford WWII without them. A difficult thing to accept, but a necessary evil.

[@Outlier999]

@@allandavis8201 All true, but they didn’t have to make combat look clean and easy.

[@steveandrushko75]

Good old Great Mistakes was there 47 years ago ended up retiring with 20 years in the Navy

[@terrencegurnee3166]

Navy man here!

[@frankfrazierjr.3216]

That's a great movie.

[@howdyradio934]

Thank you for the upload. Watching from NSW Australia.

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching! May the Sauce be with you.

[@010bobby]

Oh yeah.. i remember these routine well.. Jan 1973 Recruit Training Command NTC San Diego Calif...

[@johnrogan9420]

The boomers fathers!...what a clean cut and wholesome group of men!

[@steveweinstein3222]

Sure they are -- because it's a movie.

[@sakuratanaka7295]

That's right! none of them are having a hanging-down trousers like the guys these days! When did people switch from class to trash? what happened to elegance? I guess, "liberalism" came and we became "progressive".

[@steveweinstein3222]

@@sakuratanaka7295 From the people I saw at Trump rallies or the Jan. 6 riot, right-wingers don't exactly dress classy, now do they?

[@Outlier999]

@@steveweinstein3222 And BLM ✊🏿 and Antifa members do? Trump followers dress as they do because they do hard work 😓. Antifa is made up mostly of spoilt college brats. What is their excuse?

[@Outlier999]

@@steveweinstein3222 True. You don’t get trained in how to fight, kill, and operate a ship 🚢 and turn into a choir boy when you’re off duty. It is the same in every military and naval service in the world 🌎.

[@SaltiDawg2008]

Glakes had the best Football Team in the Country during WWII. Routinely beat the Pro teams and college teams. I went thru Glakes in 1960-1961 - Boot Company 280. On to US Naval Academy and career in Submarines.

[@williamallencrowder361]

I miss my boot camp days C218 RTC Orlando Florida 1982

[@kirneyc.thibodeaux649]

Enjoyed. Thanks

[@JFK6781]

I am a Navy Veteran...but I went to Orlando for boot camp...I served on board the USS John F Kennedy.

[@bradmiller2329]

Last of the non-nuke CVs wasn't it? BIG ship!

[@billludolph1696]

I am a Vietnam veteran//US Navy I served onboard the USS Saratoga cva-60, USS Ranger cv-61 2 cruises, USS Nimitz cvn--68 2 cruises// USS Constillation cv-64

[@roblopez165]

Bill Ludolph my brother Antonio Lopez served on the USS Constellation too.

[@wolfwizard406]

@@billludolph1696 I sailed on Ranger Boat in 75.. P.I Olongapo was my beat..I was Shore patrol there..

[@kennhi2008]

Great Lakes Naval Training Center, November 1977 to May 1978. Boiler Technician "A" School, Best times ever!!

[@steveandrushko75]

1973 Hull Tech did 20

[@vitameat]

Great Mistakes from Oct-Dec 1984...cold and windy!

[@davidcogburn6725]

It was sad to see Orlando NTC close down and keep open Great Lakes NTC. Better weather at Orlando, throughout the year. It was a great facility.

[@baltsosser]

There is nothing left there but the commissary and the NEX. All other remnants are vanished to the point you would never know there was any training base there.

[@robertfisher7949]

Club Med Sailors. Great Mistakes winter time made men of boys.

[@johnsassano9402]

my father was in the navy in 1945 and R.I.P

[@johnsassano9402]

THANKS DAD EVERYTHING YOU DONE AND I PROUD OF YOU AND I MISS YOU AND R.I.P

[@raybin6873]

My dad served WW2 - Atlantic theatre - convoys. He passed 2011....he liked the Navy a lot.

[@5.7moy]

I’m only 12 but I know what I’m doin in 6 years. Those uniforms got me on board.

[@johnrogan9420]

On D day my father was a Signalman who sent the light message to proceed to the shore on the landing crafts from his position on an LST...he had 6 children...became a NYC policeman and got 4 years credit toward his pension for his time in the US Navy...mentioned only once that an hour after giving the go ahead that the bodies of the Army Infantry came floating by as the tide took them out to sea...haunted him!

[@TimmysFavs]

John Rogan, my father was onboard hms Mackay providing covering fire for the troops assaulting the beaches on d day, he told me it was dreadful. Af.ter the beachead was secured he & his crew mates had the unenviable job of recovering the bodies & said the sea was red with blood.

[@kencarney5456]

My Uncle Ted was a Corpsman with the USN Beach Party on Utah Beach then they shipped him to the Pacific. He became a Pittsburgh Firefighter post-war.

[@baltsosser]

Great Mistakes is many things,, but magnificent is not one of them, especially say between 23 October when I shipped out to boot camp there. Between October and April that place is something I would describe as uninhabitable.

[@__Jessica___]

I spent Jan - Mar of 2013 there. Never got stuck with snow watch though!

[@tubeyou222100]

As far as Johnny "Jersey" from what I understand only the Army drafted to avoid the Army you could enlist in another branch.

[@allandavis8201]

I wasn’t in the navy but I did serve proudly in the RAF for 24 years, and when I hear the narration saying that “Great Lakes” is the best training establishment in the world I have to cringe, and I understand that every countries military are the best in the world, for propaganda purposes and recruiting drives they have to say it, but I know that the British military, small as we might be compared to the States, ARE the best, best training, best training facilities and definitely the most historic, we have to be the best because of our small numbers that is why our training has to be the best, we value quality above quantity whereas the USA has such a vast number of citizens to call upon or volunteer to serve that the training is not quite as good as my nations, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but then we have been at it far longer than the United States. Sorry America, had to get that of my chest.

[@TheArby13]

Great Lakes 1969.

[@YABBAHEY1]

Got yelled at during pool exercise for lifting my head up, I had never seen a black squirrel before & they were as big as cats. After explaining this to the SEAL in charge he nicely let me watch the squirrels with my hands on the sill & feet stretched back in a push up position for quite a while. Great Lakes, winter of '80 Ended up a SAR swimmer so jokes on him.

[@YABBAHEY1]

@BC Bob UDT running pool test. (Jump off platform/ don't drown entrance test)

[@jockellis]

I was in the Chicago area in Feb. 1967 for my older brother’s wedding and saw my first fox squirrels. I almost said a bad word in the company of a bunch of women at a brunch. I was told dogs stayed clear of fox squirrels.

[@earnharvick]

Orlando April thru June 1984 , "AZ" "A" school Meridian Mississippi then to the fleet assigned to Helicopter Anti Submarine Squadron Light Three Six in Mayport Fl.

[@kennhi2008]

I was also at Mayport from 1978 to 1984 when I got out and then worked at the shipyards on the base.

[@stevefarris9433]

I was on nuke subs giving you guys the finger through the periscope. LOL

[@tubeyou222100]

Seaman 2nd class must be equivalent to seaman apprentice

[@lilmike2710]

The Navy needed men badly. I like how their propaganda and recruit films have such entertainment value still today.

[@gerrynightingale9045]

*'Wash-Out' from the Navy???* *How in fuck is that even possible?* ( *all you're doing is 'scraping & painting' while you wait to burn or drown...how fucking smart does anyone need to be to do that???* )

[@roberthouston4839]

Why did this Movie say Drama, looked more like a Comedy to me

[@johnrogan9420]

EDWARD JOHN ROGAN USN

[@aprylrittenhouse4562]

Jesus why does Frankie look 40! Did every 20 yr old look that old

[@tubeyou222100]

Ariel has the same problem

[@holmanrw]

Hollywood has made some great movies but they are just hopeless at this sort of thing.

[@jimmyhaley727]

this aint the way it was done in San Diego in 1961,,,, hehehhe,,, ole USN vet

[@lonestarcj8132]

What good does marching do on a boat?

[@Cheezsoup]

Think it was more for drill than marching. Drill builds teamwork and unquestioning adherence to orders

[@ziblot1235]

We caught a Amtrak in Richmond VA to Chicago. I was in charge of a group of 5 dittyboppers from Petersburg. WE had to find our way across town to the NTC. None of us had ever been outside of Richmond and it was COLD. WE also had a deadline to get there or else!! WE were scared to. death. The wind was blowing like you wouldnt wanna know. I went to KOdiak after boot, because the Navy screwed me out of "A" school. I was a HS grad and had the scores for any school they had, but like a fool I didnt know that you had to get them to guarantee it in wroting. The recruiters are encouraged to get as man fools as they can without promising anything. Neeedlesss to say it made me bitter as hell. I already knew how to push a damn mop. So I was stuck in the Bering sea until I volunteered for Corps school. Corpsman were gtting killed left and right in Nam so they couldnt wait to get me killed off. I have hated the navy experience all my life. IT ruined my early life. I wasted 4 years that I could have been in college or marryiinng my HS sweetheart. WHo didnt wait. They do not mean you well. They are not your friends. They are lifers who hate enlistees. And my old man was a CWO3 lifer. He should have warned me. BUt he was typical. FTN. IM 68 now and I still hate the Navy. But I get Vet benefits and when someone says thank you for your service, I tell them I didnt do it for them. Dont thank me. It was a waste of time.

[@windypup8845]

Christ! What a moaner!! Man up and deal with the bad choices YOU made.

[@bozothepimp4039]

What a big ass clown loser! You sit there and you blame the Navy for all your shortcomings in life but yet you take the benefits with no complaints. Man up for once in your life!

[@jimclark6256]

Judging from your spelling and letter writing skills, pushing a mop was all you qualified for.

[@stevefarris9433]

This man did not make a bad choice. His Mother and Father did when they raised this loser. Bad seed.

[@stevek8829]

As a Corpsman you were the most important man in the military. At least to this 69-71 former MC. I also hate the fake thank you crap. But, thanks for being a Corpsman.

[@pedalingthru2719]

She out hoeing around and got upset because she got caught. Normal cruise widow.

[@SOffenbach]

Where's the boat?

[@dannyf100]

I am always amazed on how tough it was in the Navy? Unless you were a Seal, Corpsman, or on a river boat in Vietnam, or in WW2, don't go bragging to hard sailor. USMC 1977-1980

[@terryrussel3369]

A bunch of us Veterans and active duty military were cussing and discussing the quality of recruits these days and we concluded that IF the war time draft was in effect and the training regimen of this era was reinstated today . . . 45% would be on the First Sergeant's/Senior Chief's problem list in two weeks, 30% would be on a watch list to potentially be set back after three weeks and 15% would wash out completely for any number of reasons in less than a month. Tung in cheek thanks going out to our politicians and there typical, predictable and increasingly outragious control freak government tampering with everything.

[@sgt.davideswigerusmc5113]

No, just no. As a Jarhead, I can't imagine even the Navy being this bad

[@nanlo2882]

U don't salute a chief

[@kathleenrandolph2219]

You do in bootcamp if they are your training officer (company commander) E6 and above.

[@daviddigital6887]

Just up and leave the barracks to get an ice cream soda because you miss your mom. These recruiting films are silly.

[@JO-gr5bp]

USN 74-94, HT-1(SW) J.Ortega Retired

[@steveandrushko75]

HT1(SW) Then DC1 (SW) 73-76 78-95

[@JO-gr5bp]

@@steveandrushko75 I tried, would not let me change rates, all who went from HT to DC made chief.Oh well, had a GREAT time.

[@steveandrushko75]

that's why I crossed over to DC but still didn't make chief the last time I was up for it they were only advancing 9 DCC never made it

[@JO-gr5bp]

@@steveandrushko75 I made the board twice, by then knowing your job was not good enough, had to do volunteer work or take college courses, fuck that shit,the begining of the NEW NAVY, glad Im retired. FUCK THE NEW NAVY !

[@steveandrushko75]

4.0 evals I was Navy recruiter with 2 Navy Achievement medals got SW in 2 weeks you name it I had it and still did not make Chief very bitter about that at the time they there was a big RIF they were even offering a 15 year retirement option it was a shitty time to make rate it sucked

[@johnhill4455]

I know it was just a patriotic recruiting movie, but some Navy technical advisor should have told them that "Anchors Away" is NOT a Navy song, but rather a Naval Academy college song. Other than that, highly unrealistic. I went through Navy Boot camp in 1970, and it was NOTHING like this.

[@mikearakelian6368]

Alot of mush... 8l 68/9 72... San Diego... 2 cruises SE Asia (NAM) Not fun... Baged many bodies on LPH 2. Not like in the movie s....

[@maxvon6932]

😠

[@Plymouthpilot]

A film without direction or purpose; very disappointing.

[@macabhaird8789]

Plymouthpilot I thought it was great. Maybe it had to do with the fact that I just put in protective sheets and in a binder about 60 pages of my father's war time USNR orders. From induction to his tour throughout the Pacific, and back home again, including the rosters of the ones he served with. It was a tough time for our country. But it was a great generation also.

[@mystuff1405]

Samuel Rosenberg Some people like you only hang around and rib real heros and their relatives. Sure they were promotional films for the war but is that all that they inspire from you?

[@jamescarr3271]

Was USAF,my Dad was Chief Petty during WW2 had asked me in 1975 why I didn't go navy?,I told him that I probably wouldn't like being called seaman..