" TO CATCH A SHADOW " 1969 U.S. NAVY ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE FILM P-3 ORION AIRCRAFT 20854z

This color, Cold War era recruiting film is about the U.S. Navy and their tactics in locating enemy submarines. Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, and/or destroy enemy submarines. Copyright is 1969. Featured in the film is footage of P-3 Orion search aircraft, DASH drone helicopter, and the venerable aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10), as well as destroyers USS Leary (DD-879), USS Walker (DD-517), USS Bridger (DE-1024) and various submarines including USS Scorpion (SSN-589). Also features footage of Norfolk, Virginia and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Opening: Submarine under the sea (:08). "To Catch A Shadow" (1:04). Hour after hour, the crew of a P-3 Orion searches for enemy submarines (1:24). Men radio one another in the plane (2:05). Submarine periscope breaks the surface (3:17). A marker is dropped into the sea from the plane (4:02). Submarine under the sea (4:24). MAD, a Magnetic Anomaly Detector is an instrument that detects minute variations in the Earth's magnetic field. A submerged submarine represents a mass of ferromagnetic material that creates a detectable disturbance in the Earth's magnetic field (5:00). Faces of vigilance (5:50). ASW base (6:24). Military briefing (6:45). Sunrise mission - airplane takes off (6:57). Clocks show military or Greenwich Mean time (7:33). Pearl Harbor in Hawaii (7:48). Command center (8:11) where ships are deployed, includes shot of African American sailor at work. A briefing topic about a submarine being discussed (8:22). Submarine under water (9:28). ASW Carrier (9:37). Combat information center on the ship (9:51). Periscope is used (10:24). USS Walker (DD-517), a Fletcher-class destroyer (10:58). U.S. Navy helicopter (11:16). U.S. Destroyer moves ahead (12:07). Ship fires hedgehog type rockets (12:28). A remote control DASH drone (12:53). This is a Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter), a small drone helicopter built by Gyrodyne Company of America for use as a long-range anti-submarine weapon on ships that would otherwise be too small to operate a full-sized helicopter. It remained in production until 1969. The P-3C Orion is a land-based, long range anti-submarine warfare (ASW) patrol aircraft (13:45). Detect, classify, localize, and kill is the way of the ASW (13:57). Carrier based fixed winged Grumman S-2 Tracker (S2F prior to 1962) aircraft assist to locate the submarine (14:52). This aircraft is part of CVGS-55, or Carrier Antisubmarine Warfare Air Group 55 from USS Yorktown (CV-10), which in this era operated as an ASW platform. Drone takes off (15:25). U.S. Destroyer (15:42). Inside a U.S. submarine (16:36). Sailors play cards (17:10) as coffee percolates. Course is set for the submarine (17:33). Men move around the submarine (18:06). Battle stations to be manned (18:34). U.S. Submarine moves quietly underwater (19:11). A target is located by the U.S. submarine (19:37). Confidential or top secret papers are handed over on the ship (20:15). Captain speaks to the crew of the ship about the discovery of a submarine near them (20:50). Television camera on board the carrier (21:24). Briefing onboard the ship (21:50). Plane propellers spin (22:25). P-3C's take off (22:48). Planes and helicopters try and close in on the intruder (23:20). USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754) (24:26). Shadow boxing images. Torpedo fired and sinks a ship. Polaris ballistic missile launch (25:05). World War 2 footage of U.S. versus Japan (25:57). United States GUPPY submarine on surface (25:20). U.S. nuclear submarine USS Scorpion SSN-589 (26:44). Polaris missile fired from submerged submarine (27:30). End credits (28:14).
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[@cpauldalpiaz3161]

Thanks! I served as an ASW Helo pilot in HS-4 on the Yorktown in ‘67 - ‘69. Great experience! Followed up with Apollo 8 recovery on Yorktown and then Apollo 11 on Hornet. Very Lucky!

[@kaptainkaos1202]

I was a P-3 Radio Operator, In Flight Technician and a Radar Operator. Over 3000 hours in the air.

[@MrKaebee]

so was I, was stationed on P3B , VP10 radio operator AT2 aircrew, IFT, can't remember how many hours , pretty close to yours

[@robertl.fallin7062]

Fleet Airwing THREE ASW Communicators school 1965. NSA BRUNSWICK Maine Loved charley whisky class. and very proficient today. RIP LK6, LK8 AND CAC's

[@Chris_at_Home]

@@MrKaebee My older brother was in VP 10 from 64-67 as an AO. I was in VP 23 from 72-75 as an AX. My brother was in a big explosion when he was loading flares in a P2V. Walt Butler who was a FE in VP-23 In the early 70s told me saw it seconds after it happened and my brother staggered out of the smoke. My brother was in the hospital for 10 months.

[@mikearmstrong8483]

I was an AX IFT on Baseline Charlies, 2500 hrs, 79-86.

[@Chris_at_Home]

@@mikearmstrong8483 I worked on As and Bs. Our Squadron had Bs but we did Unitas 14 and they gave us As because they didn’t want to show the AQA7 to countries in SA. The techs and operators for Unitas went to Pax River where they found a guy to teach the old stuff for a week. Unitas was a good time. We spent 3 1/2 months going to South America countries. We stayed in hotels and had good per diem. They even gave us money to buy slacks and shirts. I have a lot of pictures. One is with a coupe guys having breakfast by the pool in Cartagena We spent 10;days in a hotel right on Cocacabana in Rio. I remember I was the youngest one. I was only 20 and everyone else had a year on me or more. Good times. Got out, worked in Ct a coupe years at both PW&A assembling commercial jets engines and then EB wiring subs. I hated it. Packed up and moved to Alaska and have been here since. I lived the dream working. Had those jobs where you work a few weeks away from home then fly home and have a few weeks off. Did 15 years communications on the pipeline driving the Dalton Highway and flying in helicopters to microwave repeaters in the mountains. Also did some overseas work.

[@thomasroell8979]

I served in the USS DOUGLAS H FOX (DD-779) an Allan M Sumner Class destroyer 1966 to 68. We spent many hours of many days doing ASW exercises. The film brought back many memories of those days. Thank for sharing the film.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Thanks for your service to our great nation.

[@thomasroell8979]

@@PeriscopeFilm It was my honor and privilege to serve in the US Navy!

[@straightarrow6352]

I was a AW in VP-1, NAS Barbers Point. Flew on a P3B, best years of my life. 73-79

[@charlesmaroon8819]

I was stationed with VX-1 NAS Key West in 1972-1973. Not an airdale but proud to be part of the team.

[@gregpavlik3913]

MAD, MAD, MAD!!! The three favorite words of a P-3 crew.

[@stephanrabai2479]

Interesting, my father was on ASW training cruise in July 1962 in Key West Fla just before the Cuban missile crisis. I grew up with the Cold War and Vietnam on my shoulders

[@phillippettes6321]

At one time back in the mid 60s I was a small part of this group on the P3. Thanks everyone for carrying on. The sub is the single most threatening weapon out there.

[@mihaildudarov3425]

Super Video to learn about US-Navy.

[@seadog686]

Had the honor of flying P-3s, as SS1, for 12 years.

[@charlesward8196]

I grew up in the Bay Area and daily watched P2 Neptunes, and P3 Orions on final to NAS Moffet Field. Before moving there I lived south of Chicago, and weekly drove by the Nike missile anti-aircraft installations on the Calumet Sag Canal on the way to my grandparents farm on Cicero Avenue. Witness to the Cold War bulwark against Communist hegemony without fully understanding what the stakes were,

[@trespire]

@Charles Ward Ignorance is bliss. So long as the general polulation are unaware of the risks and consiquences, the intellegence and the defence forces are doing their job.

[@lookronjon]

In 1969 my father was stationed to NATC Pax River Md. VP-30 LL. It was cool. I was 6. I liked it there. Then to mayport FL.

[@Mariner311]

Memories - though I started in the mid 1980s in the SH-60B Seahawk - fun tracking Soviet boats and sometimes letting them know we were there.

[@aaaht3810]

The P-3 was a great aircraft.

[@Div1ne_1]

It really was years ahead of its time

[@andrewsmactips]

Still is, in my neck of the woods.

[@robvancamp2781]

Awesome

[@wrestlingwithjay3770]

❤❤❤

[@MrLosttheplot]

great video

[@michaeld308]

The USS Scorpion sank May 22nd 1968. Its still not fully known why it sank.

[@bonnwolff1890]

AD with HSL-31/-35 from '80-'84. How did those days become so long ago?

[@0MoTheG]

I wondered why the Russians used titanium for their subs. To avoid the MAD I assume.

[@JeepWrangler1957]

Is the voice Henry Morgan?

[@tubi333]

A drone in 1969!

[@lorraineshen2999]

Target drones actually existed during World War 2. Granted, they're not what you picture today as a drone, but they were just military planes steered directly using HF or UHF radio signals. The signals couldnt travel very far, so often another control aircraft or some sort of RF source had to be close-by to direct the drone, and it could only do simple maneuvers, but nevertheless that was the only way Anti-Aircraft guns and missiles were tested.