" THE YEAR OF THE POLARIS " POLARIS NUCLEAR SUBMARINE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON PART 2 34084

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Reel 1: • " THE YEAR OF THE POLA...
This 1960 black and white installment of “See It Now” produced and edited by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly (Part 2 of 2) presents a behind-the-scenes overview of initial testing for the UGM-27 Polaris missile, a two-stage solid-fueled nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile, the United States Navy's first SLBM (TRT: 26:58).
The USS George Washington (SSBN-598) ballistic missile submarine surfaces (0:08). One of the submarine’s missile hatches opens. A Polaris missile is suspended above the submarine for loading (0:22). Stenciling on the hull of the George Washington (1:01). Hatches close (1:16). Admiral William Raborn and Murrow inside “Sherwood Forest,” the corridor of missile tubes inside the submarine. Raborn speaks on the success of the missile program, justifying the costs of the $100 million submarine (1:32). The interview continues, focusing on the Ship’s Inertial Navigation Subsystem (SINS) (5:04). Naval personnel stand atop a submarine. Murrow addresses the camera with a model of a Polaris missile in the foreground (7:06). The USNS Observation Island (T-AGM-23) launches a Polaris missile in slow motion, showing a failure (7:34). Sailors detach mooring lines from a bollard. The USS George Washington (8:32). The submarine’s crew, and the Observation Island’s crew charting a course (8:55). A radar tracking antennae is visible in the foreground, with the Observation Island in the background, both on the open sea (9:30). A button is pressed: “Fire.” A switch is flipped: “Muzzle Hatch Open.” A smoke signal for surface observers (10:02). A final countdown is interrupted in its final seconds. An announcement “The George Washington will not fire today” (11:03). Days later, another countdown (12:38). A successful Polaris launch. “Missile away” (13:19). The first stage of the missile separates, showing divergent contrails (14:20). Admiral Raborn celebrates and makes an announcement on a radio microphone (15:03). A second Polaris missile launches successfully (16:15). A broom is raised on the periscope of the George Washington, signifying a “clean sweep” (16:49). Admiral Arleigh Burke speaks in an interview with Murrow before a model of the submarine. Murrow presses him on the missile’s lack of a “fail safe” system, possible cases of madness (17:02). The interview continues. Murrow asks about “faulty communication,” and the possibility of NATO nations adopting Polaris (19:36). Murrow asks if the Polaris missile makes us “less liable to blackmail” and if we have any secure, fixed base locations (21:30). A nuclear submarine at sea submerges (23:12). Murrow speaks in closeup, summarizing the program. “Good night, and good luck” (24:11). Title: “This film is a reproduction of the “See It Now” program of October 11, 1960 as broadcast on C.B.S. Television Network” (25:54).
“See It Now” was a newsmagazine documentary series broadcast by CBS from 1951 to 1958, created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, with Murrow serving as the show’s host From 1952 to 1957, “See It Now” won four Emmy Awards and was nominated three additional times.
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@kittymervine6115 2 жыл бұрын

I woke my husband up, and we watched both parts, THANK YOU. He served on the Lafyette, which was pretty old by the time he got on it! It gave me a greater understanding of what I was doing in Groton waiting for him, and taking care of the family, and I never imagined all the development that was needed. Rickover was Rickover for sure. Also Murrow was indeed the correct person for this!! THAN YOU AGAIN!

@kittymervine6115 2 жыл бұрын

Also directly after part two, my husband just started to do the "submarine" voice as he called out whatever. It gave me chills. As a Navy wife in Groton, they always put the wives on the submarine trainer for fun. And no one gave us any directions, we'd be headed to the deep falling off the platform of the diving area....then the day of the "big swim" was nerve wracking, and the practice for pipes bursting day. It was dangerous even in testing (or so we felt). SO YOUNG, oh my gosh it's been 40 years. But we were young and up to the challenge, it was hard, and to hear him recalling his time was heart warming.

@paulbk7810 2 жыл бұрын

Washington was SSBN-598, I was engineroom supervisor (ERS) and ELT (radcon, reactor radio chemistry) on SSBN-599, USS Patrick Henry. Sister of G.W., same class boat. First 3 boomers were Thresher type attack boats. Cut in half behind OPS compartment. Missile compartment welded in between OPS and Reactor Compartment. My time, US Navy 1968-74, Cold War. Even though Vietnam was on-going, we were focused on USSR. Patrols were designed to keep USSR targets in range. Made a few runs out of Rota, Spain. Then about 1973, 598 class boats moved to Guam, off-crew in Pearl.

@kittymervine6115 2 жыл бұрын

my husband served on the Lafayette. This was so fascinating to me. I "lived" it in Groton which being all submarine, and small, was really a family. If my husband was doing his Gold tour, someone else would come over and cut my lawn on the base housing. Even had a Lafayette baby without him!

@Gort58 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for uploading this excellent documentary. The presence of Edward R Murrow allowed for sensible questions and surprisingly frank answers. This was really atypical of most of the defense-related documentaries of the time, and the actual (rather than staged) behind-the-scenes coverage was very informative.

@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 2 жыл бұрын

We need another Edward R.Murrow

@toadman506 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely a different generation. You could see Adm Burke dancing around a bit when it got a little too Close to Compartmentalized information, Stuff that is of course now, 50-odd years later very common knowledge, but at the time was one of the tightest held secrets the Navy had...contrasted to the 1990's when the Discovery Channel had Missile Firing drills on Prime time TV.

@NoOne-zo6gj 2 жыл бұрын

That 50 year old tech still works today and much of it is still classified. What you see on TV or in these films and on TV is heavily scrutinized, no secrets or useable information is in them. China and even Russia would love to get their hands on some of that old tech, even today. This particular film is basically a propaganda film of the Cold War to be seen by Russia and China, to show them that we have a big powerful toy that works and is now operational and to show the American Public where their tax dollars were going, which the public and almost all of Congress did not know about at the time, and how SSBN's were keeping America and the world safe for democracy and stopping the flow of Communism. It was an incredible system to operate and maintain.

@boydgrandy5769 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't need to watch this video. I lived it for 6 years. USS John Marshall SSBN 611, from October 1972 to October 1978. Blue crew, MINSY overhaul crew, Gold crew. 2nd generation boomer (Ethan Allen class). Took this boat from the east coast to California for overhaul, and then to the Pacific. We did the very last Polaris A3 FOT shots in the South Pacific; every package landed within the target site within a few yards from maximum range. While assigned to the Refit Site III at Guam, I worked on all of the 598 boats between 1978 and 1981, right up to the point where they began withdrawing them from strategic service and began the process of scrapping them, starting with the Abe Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt in 1981. I was the RDO on the tender the day that the Washington pulled in after colliding with a Japanese fishing trawler while on patrol. My crew cut the sail off the boat flush with the hull fairing that night and we had the boat repaired and ready to go back out within 2 weeks. Washington finished that patrol with an almost new wardroom and commanded by the Deputy Squadron Commander (who was my last CO on the John Marshall). There had been an attempt to cut the missile compartment out of the Abe Lincoln before they scrapped her, but were unable to properly mate up the engineering section to the forward part of the boat. If successful, Lincoln would have been the equivalent of a Permit class SSN.

@PeriscopeFilm 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your service to our great nation.

@kittymervine6115 2 жыл бұрын

Lafayette wife here. It was old when my husband served, then he taught at an East Coast school for training. 3 months gone and then back and then out....the wives never visited back home as no one else could understand how we could "do it". We did it with teamwork. Groton was a small base and everyone pitched in. I never cut the grass on my NAVY base housing as another husband would pitch in. My husband did the same when he was home. We were proud of our husbands ( I still am!) But the wives were never "alone" with such as support system.

@ypaulbrown 2 жыл бұрын

so fantastic, living 30 miles due west of the Cape, we got to see lots of the launches, we had no idea what they were, be we sure could see them smoke trails they left.......

@vingotaq777 2 жыл бұрын

It’s obvious that Ed Murrow gets some respect here

@diggersdentysonu.k.m.d8813 2 жыл бұрын

Top job cracking upload amazing work put in relly injoy catching up as been behind 👍 hooe things are well

@fromthesidelines 2 жыл бұрын

Originally telecast on "CBS REPORTS" on October 11, 1960.

@jsullivan9238 2 жыл бұрын

Rickover, Burke and Rayburn were GIANTS who made things happen. Thanks to them, global nuclear war never happened.

@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 2 жыл бұрын

I love it when the sub shook when the missile was away.

@kittymervine6115 2 жыл бұрын

I asked my husband if that really happened, and he said "It's a documentary!" And yes he says it did.

@boydgrandy5769 2 жыл бұрын

When you throw 15 tons of bird out of a missile tube, whether using a gas generator of with high pressure air, there will be a reaction from the hull in response to the impulse given to the missile. The hull flexes and the ship shudders up and down a few times. Engages your attention the first time, because you don't expect it. The bird doesn't light off until it clears the surface; the momentum imparted by the HP air shot is enough to fling it through 100 feet of sea water to broach before light off.