Full Fathom Five
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Guys get schoolroom training for submarine duty.
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They get some hands-on simulation. Half the volunteers in submarine training fail.
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Torpedoes are loaded onto the submarines.
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Although sub skippers would like to sink enemy aircraft carriers and destroyers, sinking the Japanese merchant marine ships is considered very, very important.
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There are 8 officers and 75 men in each of the new long-range submarines that are being built.
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The subs are built on the east coast, then have to go south and travel through the Panama Canal to get to the Pacific Ocean.
On the way to Pearl Harbor they drill and practice submerging.
The command center at Pearl Harbor for submarines.
The video talks about how Japan is an island society, and relies heavily on ships for bringing in materials it needs. Destroy those ships, and the war effort will be seriously hurt.
Then it talks about the Japanese merchant fleet.
It continues to talk about how goods taken from its conquests help keep Japan alive.
A sub locates some merchant marine ships. Their saying is “Find 'em, Chase 'em, Sink 'em.”
A ship is hit.
A ship sinks.
Another merchant ship is hit.
More hits are shown.
Japanese destroyers use depth charges to try to destroy the subs.
Another series of ships being hit is shown.
The sub is showing rescuing survivors of the ships. (In reality, this didn't always happen, to put it mildly.) Subs sunk 1,392 merchant ships. 52 U.S. subs were sunk.
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