" TO CATCH A SHADOW " 1969 U.S. NAVY ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE FILM P-3 ORION AIRCRAFT 56904

This color educational film is about the United States military and their tactics in locating submarines using ASW. 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.
Opening: Submarine under the sea (:08). To Catch A Shadow (1:04). A United States military pilot flies an airplane (1:24). Men radio one another in the plane (2:05). Military jet (3:00). Submarine periscope starts to 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). Pearl Harbor in Hawaii (7:48). 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). U.S. Destroyer on the sea (10:58). U.S. Navy helicopter (11:16). U.S. Destroyer moves ahead (12:07). Ship fires rockets (12:28). A remote control drone (12:53). 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 winger aircraft help assist to locate a submarine (14:52). Drone takes off (15:25). U.S. Destroyer (15:42). Inside a U.S. submarine (16:36). 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 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). 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). Shadow boxing (24:36). Ballistic missile fired (25:05). World War 2 footage of U.S. versus Japan (25:57). United States Snorkeling submarines (26:20). U.S. Nuclear submarine (26:44). Missiles fired from submarines that go above the surface (27:30). End credits (28:14).
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[@bholdr----0]

My grandfather, a Captian and an aviator (from TBDs, through P2Vs and P3s), in the Navy WW2-late 1970s, was at this time, serving as a senior ASW planning director; This was his bread and butter. So, Thank you for posting this vid! It has given me some marginal insight into some of the problems he dealt with and context for his remaining ephemera. Cheers!

[@renardfranse]

I was aircrew on the Grumman S2D and E, out of Key West and Quonset Point RI. R1820 9 cylinder radials are the reason I have ringing in my ears today at age 76. The visceral experience and thrill of these aircraft defy my explanation. On long hops on carrier quals the pilots would let me fly the plane. Trap landings and cat shots off the wasp and intrepid and later the lexington. Some things never leave you!

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Thanks for your service to our great nation.

[@emkaes7625]

ASW is an incredibly interesting thing. Glad to have been able to take a picture next to one of these beauties !

[@dlb3512]

As a retired 20 year in 1975 submariner this bring back many memories.

[@2003ranp]

This has brought back so many memories from watching this for the first time at my "A" school in Millington then on to JAX! The P-3 Orion did many ASW, Drug Interdiction and Counter Terrorism missions throughout it's time in service!

[@pb68slab18]

Can't say I remember this film, but I do remember NATTC Millington/NAS Memphis, A-FUN and AO 'A' school. I ended up as a P-3 aircrewman, back when P-3s had AOs (aka aft observers)!

[@ronrandall9215]

I was in Millington in 65. Went from there to HS-1 in key west flew air crew in sh3a helos for my last 3 years of enlistment.

[@josemoreno3334]

ASW. A never ending story. Great video. Cold War History.👍

[@dmacpher]

Awesome! Crazy how long they have been in service around the world

[@raddastronaut]

Great video. Great score on it too. Thanks Lockheed.

[@renardfranse]

Yes VS 30 and VS31. CAG 56. Long live the diamondcutters, and the topcats

[@moosecat]

I was really surprised to see they used footage of the USS Scorpion (SSN-589), since she was lost with all hands the year before.

[@MBkufel]

26:49 That's Scorpion. If this vid was released in 1969, she was already gone

[@ypaulbrown]

yeah, that is true..... but most films are not released before they are shot.....

[@WhoFlungPoo2024]

A nice revisit to the Navy I knew when I got out in '69. After boot and "A" School, I spent duration at the ASW Tactical School at D&S Piers Norfolk, where I, a TD2, and my shipmates maintained the Lockheed Electronics 14A6 tactical warfare simulator. Some of the best years of my life and now, 56 years later, I still regret I didn't re-up after Uncle Sam gave me a generous offer of a $19K VRB and TD1 after "B" School. I do wish that given the Lockheed origin of this film, they didn't film a tie-in to the huge simulator that we had at D&S. I'm willing to bet that a lot of the guys I see in this film spent many hours playing war games in my building. And like many others, I vividly recall the loss of Scorpion as many in my command had served with members of her lost crew. Thanks Periscope!

[@renardfranse]

I was offered 23K VRB. Aircrew on the S2 D and E. VS 30 and VS 31. The reason I did not re up was there were far too many assholes with one more chevron dedicated to making your life miserable.

[@generoush3823]

I served at NAS Cubi Point for 3 years where we had daily P3 Orion flights and those are not them, the P3 Orion had a big dome on the top above the fuselage

[@pb68slab18]

''Think Sub, Sink Sub!''

[@ypaulbrown]

thanks

[@jayteaman]

That destroyer at 24:26 is USS Frank Evans - she and an Australian carrier smacked into each other the same year this film was released, splitting DD-754 in half.

[@moosecat]

And the nuclear submarine they showed was the Scorpion, which was lost the year before.

[@jayteaman]

@@moosecat nice spot

[@renardfranse]

Jez, Julie, Sonobouys, Aps 88 radar, Magnetic anomaly detection, ASR 13 and ASN 30, analog bug to plane computer, Ald2 radar detection, sniffer, Tacan, IFF, I knew ALL of these systems and more

[@ypaulbrown]

the narrator sounds like the Actor William Conrad......from Jake and the Fatman and Cannon..... also the vice of Matt Dillion in the Radio Version of Gunsmoke

[@Seeker0fTruth]

AGREE!!! Love the bygone voice actors…harkens back to the glory days of old-timey radio programming from way back in the pre-television era (jk it was only yesterday it seems) 📻

[@Seeker0fTruth]

And now that I think about it…it’s almost like Rod Sterling’s voice from The Twilight Zone

[@davidfisher12865]

Ok, that was asw 50 years ago. Imagine now.

[@muopos]

Same

[@cybercat1531]

ASW was already quite well developed in the late 60's. The methods today remain largely the same, primarily the speed of communication has improved, sensors have been refined, mission response time shortened and the weapons used have become more effective.

[@GTGibbs]

A little bit better. I was an OT3, rode along in a P3C out of Keflavik Ice. Above the Arctic Circle, got our Blue Noses, and pictures of a Soviet Navsurf. Passive Sonar Tech in 1975-76. Was a tedious job, until we found targets. Fair winds and following seas Shipmates. OT3 GTGibbs God Bless and keep the Crew of the Scorpion.

[@yakacm]

It's interesting that they pronounced buoy as boy, the way it's pronounced in British English and not as boo-ee, like it's said in US English.

[@ardeladimwit]

depends where you're from- US has a lot of dialects. I've been often mistaken as Aussie or Brit.

[@petesheppard1709]

The pronunciation of 'mobile' was interesting. That's the way the name of the Alabama port city is spoken.

[@harryjones5260]

still havent found it

[@renardfranse]

watch THE BEDFORD INCIDENT.........