Tunes and Tokyo Rose: Officer Recreation on a WWII Submarine
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Life on a US submarine on patrol in WWII wasn't all danger and depth charges. In their off-duty hours the officers of our Silent Service could enjoy the latest hit music from home and all sorts of radio entertainment thanks to the shortwave radios and record players installed in the ward room. Our armed forces in the Pacific even enjoyed a nightly radio program produced by the enemy! Join Cod President Paul Farace as he discusses how officers relaxed on USS Cod, with a brief trip to the Twilight Zone!
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Narrator : You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, USS COD Submarine Memorial!
Don't know why you or the site for the museum capitalized COD.
Yours is only one time.
But the museum site has COD and Cod like it's actually spelt. There's no rhyme or reason to the differences either.
It nat an acronym. The sub is literally named after the fish. IDK
Old radio picking up old broadcasts!
That's pretty cool! Speaking of radio, music, and nostalgia, in Cleveland there used to be a radio station, AM 850 WRMR. They played a mix of 1940s big band and stuff from the 50s. My grandparents had that tuned in on the radio in the basement. I always remember that, and it's probably a large part of why I enjoy the music from that era.
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Witness if you will, one ww2 submarine curator who thinks he's on a museum ship in a nice quiet harbor. What he doesn't know is that he's about to take a voyage directly into - The Twilight Zone..
Nice intro Mr. Serling! 😂❤
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Lol ty!
As an old living historian we all know that an old radio will only play its period music and news and I’m sticking to that story
I had an Uncle who was on the USS Texas during WW2 who told me there were more than a few Tokyo Rose dolls in a hangman's noose while he was in board. Thanx, Great Job 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
Tokyo rose (at least the most famous one, named Iva Toguri D’Aquino) wasnt an american traitor or japanese sympathetic at all. She was a half portugese, half japanese american citizen and UCLA university student who was unfortunately visiting sick family in japan at the outbreak of the war (Americans were not informed when the war would begin) and was given a choice between jailtime or working in radio. (do you want to spend 5 years in a japanes wartime prison? As a young woman?) Her and her australian producer took every oppertunity to not follow japanese orders without being executed, and genuinely tried to put on an entertaining show for the Americans, who largely liked her a lot.
After spending a few decades in poverty working in a fortune cookie factory due to her conviction for aiding the enemy, she was pardoned by gerald ford shortly before her death, who likely listened to her during the war. She supposedly cried deeply with happiness, as she was always a proud American and her public reputation as a traitor haunted her for the rest of her life
Good background ... we also understand that she had American military POWs as writers!
Interesting. My mom had a cousin lost on USS Lagarto. It was overdue but missing and wasn't announced as lost until on my mom's birthday in 1945. She used to tell me how sad it was at the end of the war when everybody else came home to the small town... but her cousin didn't. In 1982....in a bookstore... While we were visiting my mom's hometown an old woman came up to me and asked if my mom was Miss so-and-so. I said yes. She came up and introduced herself to her. She had been my mom's cousin's Nanny, and work for their family... and remembered my mom from when she was a little girl and she came over to play with that cousin.
I remember seeing someone with an old car. It was an early 1950s car. When he would turn on the radio he could tune in music from that era. The trick was a box in the trunk with some electronics. There was hardware that was playing something like 4 large MP3 files and something like 8 little radio transmitters. The radio did work normally but the transmitter in the trunk made enough power to make it about 6 feet to get to the antenna.
As an old infantryman, these videos are a delightful window into a world I never knew. Thank you so much and keep up the fantastic work.
And reminds me why I chose infantry, even though I qualified for submarines, had I gone Navy.
I wouldn't be surprised if you went out on deck to find it was Pearl Harbor, 1944. You could then go to the Royal Hawaiian Hotel for a beer...Seriously, great video! I would have talked about cribbage a little more, and brought up the tradition of Dick O'Kane's famous board aways residing on the oldest U.S. attack boat in the fleet in commission...
FYI: V-Discs were not Bakelite, they were vinyl. The first time vinyl was used for records. They ran at 78rpm, were 12", and could be played on record players provided to the military.
Thanks for the information! So V-Disks were not as brittle as our 78s!
@@USSCod Regular 78s broke if you dropped them. Radio drama programs were "transcribed" on 14" 78 records. The records were even used by civilian stations on land because network landline telephone charges were too expensive. Starting with the Korean War Armed Forces Radio copied the records to the new reel to reel tapes. That is the reason we still have Old Time Radio (OTR) programs today. The tapes are government property and were not thrown away. Private companies pay a fee to be able to sell copies of the programs.
At antique stores, the older the records, the more fragile -- not because of age so much but composition
Interesting fact on the RBO and RCH receivers is that they were internally shielded to such a degree that their internal oscillators were undetectable from a couple of feet away, so that they did not give off a radio signal that could be picked up by DF units
If you get to Cleveland, the Cod tour is a must,our family enjoyed it thoroughly
Way cool demo of the old radio receiver. Nice job, with the touch of "Twilight Zone."
Magnificent restoration of your RBO!
Yup great video its these types i like, we see hundreds of videos from others showing torpedo tubes engines and conning tower but so much of the rest of these boats are rarely if ever covered
Ever see the movie, Final Countdown? The Cod must have been sucked into the same time storm.
Seems you accidentally turned on the flux capacitor…
Great video by our great Mr Farace. My dad, John, who was the crew chief of the USS KNOX APA 46(--troop transport ) engine room in the Pacific, told me many tales about "Rose"--but not in a favorable way. One day when we were older adults, my Dad pulled out a picture of what he said was "Tokyo Rose" Being the jokester he was, he said it was his girlfriend. We werent really convinced. Turns out it was a picture of a Polynesian girl that had been sold to many sailors on shore leave. We dont know who laughed harder--Dad or us😁🤣😆But it kept us ALL wondering who she really was!Nice video, Paul, thanks for sharing
There used to be some original Tokyo Rose broadcasts on YT awhile back. Things being what they are now, not sure if they're still available.
Wow. Totally struck by how extremely accurate the interior shots of Operation Petticoat were. It looks exactly like this. I wonder if they built sets to reproduce the interior or if they actually filmed that movie on a Gato-class sub.
Great video super cool to see ❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Looking forward to seeing more of the sub!
I collect old-time radio programs. Its amazing just how many shows were saved from oblivion because the AFRS platters still exist
You've clearly been sucked into a mysterious electronic fog with the USS Nimitz back to 1941.
I’ve been twice to COD.. she looks like she could depart on a mission every day. Great job staff!! She’ll be telling her stories long after I’m gone..
Nice creative touch with that old broadcast. It showed me how it must have felt to hear nostalgic music and then a chilling targeted comment.
Thank You :)
Tube amps are the best. They can look old and dilapidated and still produce quality sound.
Thanks 👏👏👏
I don't know if this is how you pulled that off, but if you have a radio guy on the crew, it is a fairly simple matter to feed the antenna input on the RBO-2 to an RF signal generator modulated by a recording of Tokyo Rose and actually have the radio play the recording. Disregard if that's exactly what you did 😆.
I hot one lesson in performance magic... distraction by tapping the speaker while I touch the start button on a CD player hidden in the gray box. The radio does work fine however ❤
Beautiful job on that RBO. I have one here that apparently was sold post-war, slightly de-militarized (the Navy label plates were removed, and a small civilian style tag was put on instead. The RBO and the RCH SLR-12B receivers mentioned by others in the comments were all made by E. H. Scott Radio Labs of Chicago. E. H. Scott was a manufacturer of very high end and high quality radios for the commercial broadcast market in the 1930s through the early 1950s. The sets they built for Navy and Merchant Marine ships were primarily for recreational use, as in the wardroom of COD, but some
models, such as the SLR-12B and RCH werereceivers capable of receiving Morse Code signals. The SLR-12B was the main communications receiver on many of the merchant marine Liberty and Victory ships. The SLR in the receivers merchant marine product line stood for “super low radiation” of the sets superheterodyne local oscillator, which on a standard radio design would actually act as a small transmitter and radiate a signal that could be detected by a listening enemy surface ship or a submarine on the surface which could use direction finding techniques to track the location of the ship. The SLR sets used very extensive shielding and filtering of the local oscillator to minimize the radiation of any such signals.
73, Chris AJ1G Stonington CT
Have you ever thought of feeding the output of the CD player to a part 15 AM transmitter that would then be received by the radio?
Also at 22 seconds, is the thing in the lower right a speaker and if so what was it used for?
Excellent WWill nostalgia. Actually One Tokyo Rose, dubbed by the Japanese propaganda office as 'Orphan Ann' was Iva Toguri D'Aguino. After the war she returned Stateside only to be charged with treason. She was sentenced to10 years in prison. After serving 6 years she settled in the old Swedish neighborhood on Chicago's northside. There she lived out her years with her father running a very notable Japanese curio shop on Belmont near Clark St. Years on the Chicago Tribune and 60 Minutes TV journal investigated her story and found that FBI witnesses perjured themselves. President Ford learned of this and issued a pardon. She lived to 90.
Very cool you guys have that stuff intact and in running shape. I have the near-cousin to that receiver, the SLR-12B. Probably weighs an easy 50 lbs, a real hunk of a radio. Yours is very nicely restored, mine doesn't look anywhere near that good.
Cod, followed CVN-68 Nimitz, back to WWII, & tried to stop Pearl Harbor, "The Final Countdown".
Y'all must've followed Nimitz through that storm.
Informative & funny. I liked it.
Awesome video.
Ambient backgrounds like Wartime Music and News Broadcasts are great for studying, writing, etc.
Learn how to play Cribbage, and you'll be playing the Official Game of Submariners everywhere.
Nice twist
Was that radio broadcast from Tokyo Rose real or just something for the video or during filming were you guys caught in a temporal distortion (time warp) and transported back to WWII?
It was recorded by one of our wonderful volunteers years ago.
That wardroom is HUGE, at least compared to the Sturgeon SSNs.
That is cool it's almost like you went back to 1944
😄 Interesting!
Since most people don't know the facts, Tokyo Rose was not a traitor, and after the fall of Japan she was repatriated to her family in America. Iva Toguri was an American born of Japanese immigrants who was in Japan tending to a sick aunt on December 7th. She was arrested shortly after that. The Japanese were not anywhere near as sophisticated at propaganda as the Germans, and so her writers were American POWs. My father and most of my uncles served in a Pacific Theater loved her show, because she and her POW writers used humor to slip actual intelligence useful to the allied cause, into their broadcasts.
So the officer wardroom in Operation Petticoat was pretty accurate!
That was a better short story on Tokyo rose. I didn’t know that she did Federal Pen time I thought it was some type of small military jail. I knew about.V- records and that those records we’re supposed to be destroyed but some Veterans liked them too much and squirreled them away 🐿️🤓
What about enlisted men's mess? It had some similar setup or just radio?
On Cod they had a record player in the crews mess as well and an RBO to listen to shortwave broadcasts!
😂 that's too cool!
you didnt sail through a giant blue vortex did you?
Pity the US Congress which quite rightly doesn't trust their naval officers with access to booze on board didn't allow a bar on board their submarines like the RN.
British nuclear armed submarines still serve liquor to their matelots.
But not much of it. Three small tins of beer! Restrictions are more generous with higher rank. I didn't touch the stuff at sea
@@well-blazeredman6187 Better that than the illegal moonshine stills US Navy sailors drink from :)
Or the alcohol containing fluids available in the operating systems of torpedoes and aircraft drunk by Russian sailors?
They couldn't do the radio underwater, underway, right?
They spent very little time submerged
Antenna may be above water
Before nuclear power subs were in the surface most of the time
Love the videos! I just discovered your Chanel! Could you do a video in the future where you walk through the entire boat?
Well our format is to do small mosaics. Not sure how we would do that. But we're going to think about that.
Gerald Ford pardoned Tokyo Rose and Nixon. Interesting.
Did he just say that guy's name was Dick philpot? Guy's school years must have been harsh.
Fun facts the IJG did not recognize Japanese subjects of the emperor having a non Japanese citizenship-born in japan or not. They still had a required allegiance to the god-emperor
Tell us about non officers
We're the officers allowed to drink? What kind of food did they get that the enlisted men didn't?
No alcohol!! Same food as the crew, served on china plates, rather than 'mess trays,' coffee cups rather than mugs. Probably special 'treats' like deserts & such. Coffee made in a vacuum drip coffee maker, one pot at at time, rather than by several gallons for the crew.
Enlisted never used trays on subs in WWII ...served family style at their tables. Officers were not allowed booze and everyone enjiyed the same food and desserts.
There were at least 24 women who make propaganda broadcasts during WW2. Significantly , none of them referred to themselves as Tokyo rose. One referred to herself as 'Dutchie' and other referred to herself as AN - short for Announcer
A bit of snagging's. ;-)
Paul who ?
I remember my grandfather saying that the only reason Tokyo rose lived was she was a women had it been Tokyo Jim the US would have probably hung him. people wanted to hang Tokyo rose in public and were very unhappy to find she only got time in the federal pen.
very cool
Play oblivion music in the background