USS Tautog 'The Tautog Story'

[@tomjustis7237]

Tautog not only had the highest kill record of any WWII submarine, but she also survived the entire war from Pearl Harbor to the Japanese surrender, meaning she also had the longest war time service record of any U.S. submarine. Salute to the officers and men of the Tautog!!!

[@stephenfarthing3819]

And she and her crew - gave back some of their revenge! And she got back that score. Despite the Type 14 torpedoes problem.

[@user-xh3lz9xt4l]

But she didnt have the highest tonnage of enemy vessels

[@jerrygundecker743]

Ahooogahuh, auooogahuh, ahooogahuh! One of the best lines in a submarine film.

[@magellan6108]

The torpedo debacle of the Navy's ordnance Bureau has not been mentioned in any of the ones I have watched. It truly was a scandal where entrenched Navy bureaucrats refused to listen to Sub commanders who universally complained about defective torpedoes. The war in the Pacific may have been shortened significantly had this problem been addressed appropriately.

[@lawdog490]

Yes it has, I have been watching this whole series lately, and there was one dealing with duds...

[@rodfirefighter8341]

I still feel someone was working for the enemy!!!!!!!!

[@rodfirefighter8341]

I heard many captains and much of crews were fired and careers destroyed because they complained about the torpedoes. Not much is said about that either!!!!!!

[@magellan6108]

Rod Firefighter it does make you wonder...

[@bf945]

There is at least one episode. There is also a KZbin documentary about it. BuOrd people should have been shot over that disaster.

[@bf945]

Cool. I served on the USS Tautog (SSN-639) in the 1980s. Nice to see some info about her predecessor.

[@jstetzer01]

You got it Sir. My Uncle served on SS 386 Pilotfish and SS 204 Mackerel. I don't know the whole story. I wasn't born until 1960. I'm a retired Army 1SG.

[@boogerdog5247]

@@jstetzer01 I served briefly on the Sealion 68...she was featured on this program. Boy, how she could sweat!

[@kaptainkaos1202]

@@boogerdog5247 what do you mean sweat?

[@boogerdog5247]

@@kaptainkaos1202 Sweating, lol, is LEAKING...Fractured welds in a hull! Yea, nothing like it at 350 feet down...I was on a WWII sub, that "sweated."

[@jimsmith9819]

sweating means condensation on the inside of the hull@@boogerdog5247

[@brd400]

These guys were a real American hero's back when we used to have them!

[@GermanShepherd1983]

Yes, not like trump who was a coward and claimed "bone spurs".

[@paul-andrelarose3389]

Indeed, these were heroes who contributed to the greatness of the USA. Unfortunately, they are being betrayed by the current political leadership who has brought the Country into a steep decadence. 2021/09/01. Ontario, Canada.

[@GermanShepherd1983]

@@paul-andrelarose3389 Things are better here now in the US. We got rid of that idiot trump

[@daleupthegrove6396]

What about Weak Willie Clinton who wanted to maintain his 'political viability'? @@GermanShepherd1983

[@johnheigis83]

Sad, I come here - from the news of the day - to find comfort, in comparison, to when we were "putting up the good fight" Thanks, guys... And girls... For building complete pictures, of every step, of R/NCB-C Warfare (Recon)... Then, and now!

[@180mph9]

What an amazing record.

[@iananderson1848]

Fascinating story . 72k tons sunk .29 ships wow . US sub record holder

[@dane-my1qo]

Don't know were you found all these oldes but goodes grate job love it . A lot of faces got there start in these❤

[@johnrogan9420]

Great...to grate is something done to cheese.😮

[@andrewvelonis5940]

At 18:14 the captain mentions Santa Claus. St. Nicholas was the patron saint of sailors.

[@jdh91741]

Dropping mines of the coast of Indochina (Vietnam) in 42 28 years later, I am there fighting a different distant dirty war..

[@robertstack2144]

@@Mechanized85 are you Canadian, around Fenwick, Fawnhill area? I grew up there before moving north

[@allandavis8201]

Another really interesting and entertaining episode, very informative also. Thanks 👍.

[@jstetzer01]

This man, Admiral Dykers is the epitome of cool. Look up his war record. I have. Combat veteran. I'm retired Army 1SG. 1979 - 2002. Thanks for the show/series.

[@markhonerbaum6988]

And they hardly mention sub on sub sinking in ww2.

[@jimlaguardia8185]

Great series.

[@ThePyramidone]

Two notable actors Burt Metcalf (Writer and Producer for TV's MASH) and Richard Bakalyan (Up Periscope, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, et al.)

[@georgeplagianos6487]

Interesting series on TV. I think I remember seeing this when l would have been seven or eight I think..what I do remember was trying to hear the works of this song. I wonder is at Hollywood made or it's a song The Crew would sing? Also that narrator announcer sounds like Harvey Fierstein his voice is really like scratching writing with chalk on a board. The best part is hearing our teacher crack the chalk while writing on the board again thanks I'll be watching some more these videos thanks again going to help us with the Coronavirus but shut down most of the country. Is a battle that has to be fought current our president seems to say let's get the economy going as soon as possible and those will die will just be collateral damage that's what he saying in so many words the last couple of days will be collateral damage. Not the America my folks fought for 🙏 God save us

[@motorcyclemark2889]

My Dad was on the SS Permit 178 during ww2

[@jakeblack212]

My Brother was on the Tautog 1960's

[@samuelclayton4405]

American Navel Power at its finest.

[@georgeb8701]

2nd or 3rd week of a 1st class Petty officer comes to the barracks looking for volunteers to go on subs. 45 yrs later, would have, could have, should have..... 🇺🇸

[@allandavis8201]

George B, we all make bad decisions in life, and if I understand you correctly you regret not becoming a submariner, and if I am correct there is no way you will ever know how that might have turned out, maybe good maybe bad. I count myself lucky that I had 24 years in the military, not all good by any stretch of the imagination, but would not change it for anything, but sometimes I wonder if I had followed my original career path what my life would have turned out like, I wanted to be a chef, in the military, but the recruiters offered me the chance to be an aircraft fitter, a trade my dad, himself a veteran aircraft armourer, said would be better for me, and the recruiters couldn’t or wouldn’t offer me anything else because my aptitude tests were to good for being anything else. Maybe if I had followed my heart and not my head I could have been one of those celebrity chefs, earning huge sums of money, not up to my armpits in oil grease and filth. So I am the same as you, could of, would of should of, and I just wonder.

[@kaptainkaos1202]

I saw the Navy recruiter right after I turned 17. I was always a bookworm so I darn near aced the preASVAB. From my scores I could have any rating and he talked me into submarine ET. Excited I was! Well since I was only 17 my parents had to sign my enlistment papers. My dad was active duty Navy at the time and when the recruiter told him what I was gonna be he said no way. I was going to be an AT AQ or an AX. Any avionics rating so I took AX. Went on to qualify as a Naval Aircrewman and fly on P-3 Maritime Patrol aircraft. To this day, 40 years later I work Naval Aviation. Would have, could have? Nah I had a blast!

[@lawrenceleverton7426]

I learned to play piano and ended up playing trombone. I'm Glad I volunteered. No one needed to ask twice. They are way cool. God Bless Submariners.

[@johnrogan9420]

2nd or 3rd week of what??basic training???

[@gregedwards5608]

Better than any sub movie

[@russell6022]

Never could understand why they didn't just take out the destroyers first, then polish off the transports at leisure.

[@jwrockets]

That only works in PC world. If there were more than one escort, the chance of discovery and counter attack increased greatly. Torpedoes would often run under shallow draft ships like destroyers, alerting them and inviting counter attack. If the torpedoes hit, they would often dud, alerting the destroyer and inviting counter attack. The early S-boats were slow and captains only had enough time to get into single favorable firing position. Cargo ships were always faster than submerged submarines and sometimes better armed.

[@andrewvelonis5940]

I'm sure there was a reason, perhaps more than one.

[@beerdrinker6452]

Destroyers and other escorts were too small and nimble. Like swatting a bee. Sinking freighters/oil tankers choked the enemy of vital supplies. At points in the war the Japanese had to send supplies by destroyer, a terrible waste of resources.

[@marynelson4445]

God bless the men who defended our cy❤

[@allenbuck5589]

Thanks enjoyed it.

[@grizzlygrizzle]

The fishermen who catch tautogs pronounce the word with the accent on the second syllable.

[@stevek8829]

I listened to this to hear that. I like the show as well because I watched as a child.

[@kaptainkaos1202]

And they taste great.

[@sunlite9759]

The Japanese must have had a very large dry dock to build all those battleships, cruisers, submarines, and air craft carriers ! Then hide them under the rug. Some day the truth will be revealed..

[@jwrockets]

The Japanese admirals held back many of those vessels in home waters, hoping to lure the US into one great decisive surface engagement where they would have held the advantage. It never happened.

[@ZantiMisfit198]

Highest scoring submarine in American history. Sold for scrap. What a disgrace!

[@allandavis8201]

Hawkin's Dog, yeah it is almost sacrilege that such historic and heroic icons of the war were so unceremoniously discarded, but unfortunately not every one of them, submarines, ships and planes and many other unique products of war could be kept, and being sold for scrap was just money in the bank to the bean counters. As long as the tales of daring and films like these are handed down generation to generation then the will be remembered. RIP, Lest We Forget.

[@bf945]

Same fate for the Enterprise. Very painful to watch her being cut into pieces.

[@AndrewVelonis]

A few have been preserved as museum ships. I've been aboard the Croaker, which sank the Japanese ship that had sunk the Juno, the ship that the Sullivan brothers had been aboard. Buffalo Naval Park.

[@realbudgiesmugglertwohatsb2611]

Was that Dr bellows from l dream of jeanie

[@jstetzer01]

Wow, if you know him I feel old. Just joking, I'm 59. Gotta have a sense of humor. 1SG U.S. ARMY RETIRED.

[@realbudgiesmugglertwohatsb2611]

Same age era was good ol days

[@jstetzer01]

Wow, Jeanie! What a Babe. Call me what you want. I watched her in 60's - 70's. Barbara Eden I believe.

[@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525]

Superstition runs deeper than the submarines do.

[@bogthing1]

We used to catch Tautog, they got teeth like people....

[@thearchibaldtuttle]

Everything was a bit slower then

[@76rjackson]

Archibald Tuttle except the bullets

[@brianturner7214]

😇😇😇

[@bencampbell6479]

Did they not let blk guys on subs back them even as cooks or stewards ?

[@andrewvelonis5940]

They were there. Keep watching.

[@paulgerald7682]

Thank God that the Flat Tops were not there .

[@johnrobinson3852]

Torpedoes worked on this sub apparently. Go figure

[@markskelton2693]

Probably built on a Wednesday afternoon

[@sunlite9759]

Sneak attack? What did the US think Japan was building war ship with 18" guns for? To go fishing?

[@bf945]

The Yamato class was built in secret. How was the US supposed to know about those 18" guns before the war?

[@cindylawrence1515]

Well, genius, we had (duh) broken the Japanese purple code two years prior and either knew all about or had very strong indications to their war plans/intentions. Read some history from documents declassified way back in the mid 70's...

[@darylbeattie9708]

Actually people, the Purple code was for diplomats and it would have been incidental if any military data was in it. As for the Yamato, the Italians let it slip that they heard "big" Japanese ships were built but that was it. The Japanese were good at keeping secrets, so no, nobody in the USN knew exactly how tons these sisters displaced or how big the guns were. I once read that even when Admiral Kurita was given command of the fleet, and even served on the Yamato, in 1944 did not actually know it was 18" guns but told "Special 16". We ended up learning about them after sinking them. However, This is one of those times when we have to hand it to the Navy. They GUESSED the Japanese had big ships with big guns when they withdrew from the treaty. They even considered 18" guns in considering what size guns we would put on ours. Their remedy was our special AP shells of our Iowa Class guns, which had nearly the same destructive power as the Japanese 18"shells, but in a much faster ship with far better capability in attack.

[@martinnewham4812]

I have often thought how convenient the American Aircraft Carriers being at sea when obsolete Battleships are blasted in Pearl Harbor.

[@AndrewVelonis]

It was a sneak attack. Even knowing that the Japanese were building up their military, the attack itself was surprise. There was no declaration of war beforehand, and only after the attack did they issue an ultimatum.

[@cindylawrence1515]

Terrible...especially when you consider we knew all about or had very strong indication of Japanese war intentions and battle plans due to our having broken the japanese purple code over two years prior. And STILL our fleet was moved out of the safety of San Diego to Pearl Harbor. (All this was declassified way back in the mid 70's) Then, Washington tried to crucify the top officers on duty at Pearl....

[@dane-my1qo]

Thats when. Americans were Americans an men were men 14:41

[@robertstack2144]

FDR and company made sure PH people didn't have a chance. He liked a weak military, diminished military budget and "stimulus" checks, welfare, free housing at home. Remind you of any particular group?

[@willboyd4607]

If you did not graduate from Annapolis you won't be a "special" guest on this series.

[@LincolnFStern]

That's not entirely true. He had a handful of enlisted crew members interviewed throughout this series.

[@korynorth2923]

Hmmm...I'm wondering what class the nun interviewed in the Nautilus story was in? :)

[@robertle3038]

Sailors think- "who did nun have to blow? I want to be on the show too!"

[@brd400]

Robert Le You're a troll

[@rodfirefighter8341]

@@robertle3038 Say what was that????

[@billyost1479]

Today, we see the difference between heroes of great ships and the 'woke'.

[@loveliberals-pb9yq]

Not winning today, surrender after surrender. But we do have stiff regulations on pronouns.

[@rwood6980]

Damn it "submariners". NOT submareeners! So much for admirals !

[@hellboundrubber4448]

Are you sure? I mean the Rear Admiral was born in 1905, Naval Academy grad in 1927, Commander by 1934. And WW2 till 49. He might just know what he's talking about. I checked it out. Apparently Submariners is British. The Submareeners as you hear it, is American and is spelled Submariners.