Our oldest son is an AF-18 mechanic aboard the USS Truman presently. On his second deployment. I have never seen this one before, however will most definitely show him this when he comes home. Thanks to all of you who have served!
If you send your son the youtube link, he can probably watch it right away. (he’ll maybe need to download it first to avoid bandwidth trouble, while streaming.) Please thank him for his service!!! I worked on submarines. Every time I went on a carrier, i got hopelessly lost!
Saw this on TV when I was a kid. There was always a war movie on Saturday arvo's. These old war movies take me back. I remember this movie because my dad was going crazy because in the flight scene's a pilot goes from a F4U to a F4F, back to a F4U then back to a F4F 😆 . Great to see it again. My dad's been gone 30 years now but he was watching it with me tonight. 👍
Your pop was correct, the same thing was nagging at me =) I was a 6013 with VMA(AW)121 on board USS Ranger CV61 ,they show the pilot in a F4U cockpit then a Hell cat hitting the deck that's very annoying : /
No CGI in 1952. There's some matte work that's not too bad for a low budget film, though, or rear projection used in the first scenes with the planes taxiing by on the deck. I'd guess they used whatever official footage they could get for the formation scenes. Looks like there's a Devastator or Helldiver in the first combat scenes, too. I have the same problem with cars that change colors and models, are too young to be in the period-- or even if they have the wrong width whitewalls! But, given the constraints of the day, the story is what matters. Corsairs were still in use then, right?
My father is one of the sailors hauling on the lines that lift the mail bags up to the aircraft carrier in that movie. That ship, DD-559, USS Longshaw, a Fletcher-class Destroyer, was sunk off Okinawa on April 18, 1945, with 62% casualties. My father, though wounded, barely survived the ordeal.
I was in VF-1 "Wolfpack" from 90' till it decommissioned in 93'. I did two cruises on the Ranger with VF-1 including it's last cruise before it decommed in 93'. There is an awesome set of videos here on YT of a prior sailor doing a walk through of her right before they scrapped her. If you haven't seen them they will bring back a lot of memories. He actually stops and talks for a minute in one video directly next to the bunk I slept in on our Desert Storm cruise.
I was an IC Electrician and a Hole Snipe. Majority of my time was spent in 1 of the 4 main machinery rooms or in 1 of 2 auxiliary spaces, 4 shaft alleys, purple gang JP5 tank...equipment all over ship! Fwd and Aft IC gang
My father is in this movie for a few seconds. At 57:26, when the Fletcher-class destroyer DD-559, the USS Longshaw, arrives with the aircraft carrier's mail, my 18-year-old father is the red-haired sailor with the slightly hunched-over stance who takes his turn hauling on the line that lifts the batch of mailbags up to the deck of the carrier. The actual USS Longshaw was sunk off Okinawa by a Japanese shorebattery on April 18th, 1945, after it had run aground a quarter mile off the coast of Okinawa while providing artillery support to the Marines ashore. The second shell that the shorebattery fired hit the Longshaw in its forward magazine, destroying the forward third of the ship. Of the 291-man crew, 86 were KIA, 95 were WIA, for a horrific 62% casualty rate. My father, though wounded, spent eighteen hours in the water before bein rescued. The USS Longshaw had earned 9 Battle Stars before she went down in WW2.
Awesome movies of these classic war films I could watch all of them I feel so sorry for all who have died in oceans and other countries that where never seen again by there families. May those heroes rest in peace.
I served on the USSPrinceton the film that this movie is about, she never saw action in WW2, but she did see action in Korea. She was converted to an LPH and saw action during the Vietnam war as LPH 5 !
LPH (Landing Platform Helicopter) The (CV-37) USS Princeton was indeed converted to an LPH (Amphibious Assault Ship) however as stated it was not built from the hull up as this type. The first LPH of this class that was actually planned, built, and launched as a true "Amphib" was the USS Iwo Jima, LPH-2. Seven ships of this type were built. LPH-2 Iwo Jima LPH-3 Okinawa LPH-7 Guadalcanal LPH-9 Guam LPH-10 Tripoli LPH-11 New Orleans LPH-12 Inchon I served on the Guadalcanal aka "Guad" from 1989 - 1993 as an MS (Mess Specialist aka cook) now known as CS (Culinary Specialist).
in World War II: The USS Princeton was originally built as the USS Tallahassee (CL-61), but was converted into a carrier and renamed CV-23 before launching. It was commissioned in February 1943 and participated in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the invasion of Saipan, and the conquest of the Marshall Islands.
I was one year old when they made this movie and this one i have never seen before! Watched it and really very realistic and fun to see! Great to see the old propeller fighters from world war 2 era that are very rare to find now in the years 2024/2025!
My dad was a "hot papa" on the Princeton in Korean War. They had squadrons of F9F and Corsairs. He also was stationed on the USS Philippine Sea. Good movie. Thanks to all our servicemen for your brave action and let us always remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice with their life. God Bless you all!🇺🇸🙏
great movies, old they may be. there's a poignant touch in them that seems priceless. takes me back in time when heroes sprang from those who perhaps never expected to be. i can hear cheers from loved ones while tears rolled down their cheeks. thanks to those who had served the nation.
@@george-z6t5wHe enlisted in the US Army and became a paratrooper. He broke his leg so badly in a training accident in England he was given a discharge. Returned stateside he joined the Marines under an assumed name, was commissioned an officer and was recruited by the OSS. He parachuted into Yugoslavia where he helped downed allied airmen escape, and, using his extensive sailing experience, ran supplies by sea to Yugoslavian guerrillas. He was awarded one of Yugoslavia’s highest awards for heroism by Marshall Tito. He was also an accomplished author, writing a critically acclaimed novel and autobiography.
@@IncogNito-gg6uh He testified before McCarthy's committee and named names. That's what kept him from being blacklisted. It was also something he later said he regretted doing.
Remember this movie from when I was 12 and cruising channels...I watched and read tons of navy war movies and books...one day I realized I became what I read when I was taking readings between the main engines of the sub I was serving on...
I just love how in these movies, a F4-U Corsair can strafe, turn into a Curtiss SB2 Helldiver drop a bomb, pull up and turn back into a Corsair. And then miss with a bomb attack turn into a Curtiss XBT2C and drop a torpedo.
Happens in movies all the time. The movie makers don't realize that what they produce should be accurate. The latest booboo I encountered was the gibberish posing as Morse Code in the "Titanic" movie...
Great and inspiring film. Sterling Hayden and Richard Carlson were great actors who were also human beings unlike some of the actors we have tolerate these days.
There’s always at least a dozen of such comments, harkening back “for the good old days.” Lol It’s a ridiculous piece of propaganda, but it’s entertaining and features some great aircraft carrier landings and Thunderbolt vs Zero battles.
The film is a a ridiculous piece of propaganda, but it’s entertaining, has a strong cast who turn in good performances, and features some great aircraft carrier landings and Thunderbolt vs Zero air battles (even if they are repeated ad nauseam). Thanks for making it available, Tala!
He only drinks pure rain water, or grain alcohol. "Do you realise that fluoridation is the most monstrously-conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?"
About the worst thing you can do as a carrier pilot is to land when you've been signaled to wave off (go around). Your only defense is that it all happened so fast and at the last second that you couldn't avoid it. If they thought that you did it deliberately you would probably be put in front of a review board and might lose your "wings".
@ Ya but who really cares now Hollywood used all kinds of actual footage making movies back then. At least it's real The best part for me is still working and flying in those old warbirds Happy new year
you could learn to spell a bit better, 😄 says me that came C in my class ha ha. I agree, a classic movie with lots of real war footage from a time a few years before I was born, very impressed and awed with what these guys had to endure in WW2.
Love when the squadron returns from their first flight and enter their quarters. They are then taking off their khaki uniform instead of a flight suit. I can't watch these anymore having restored a TBM Avenger and am still restoring a sister ship to the Princeton. Things stand out making me say wrong. However, if I saw this when 10 years old I would be captivated.
@@tbm3fan913 serms no war movie can ever be consistent. Like when B17 are on a bombing mission at 35-40 thousand feet. One has not flight suit the next are all bundled up with oxygen masks.
@Tala Zeidan - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE POST :-) Bobby Estey - Constellation CV64 (77-81) - wow, the landings are real tight back then. Today you get a STRAIGHT SHOT from 0.75 miles, NOT, a last minute turn. We had a saying, "Sailors, Fighters and Flattop Riders" 1:16:47 - Ticonderoga CV14. LOL at the ending, another Ensign refusing a Waveoff
Read his book "Wanderers", published in the early '60s. It's interesting and even amusing, but it reveals that he had been content to sell people out if they were in the way of his career.
CV37 in this movie was the Essex Class USS Princeton. She never served in WW2, commissioned late in 1945 after Japan's surrender. She was scrapped in 1971.
@Baskerville22 The Fletcher-class destroyer that delivered the mail in the movie, DD-559, the USS Longshaw, was sunk a quarter mile off Okinawa on April 18, 1945, with 86 KIA, and 95 wounded. My father was one of those wounded. The Longshaw had 9 Battle Stars when she went down.
@Baskerville22 She ran aground a quarter mile off the coast of Okinawa while on a two-week-long fire-support mission supporting Marines ashore. While tugs were trying to pull the Longshaw off the reef, a hidden Japanese shorebattery began shelling it. Their first shell landed thirty yards away from the Longshaw, but their second shell hit the forward magazine. The resulting explosion shredded the forward third of the ship, instantly killing 86 men, and wounding 95 more; a horrific 62% of her 291-man crew, according to the official records. After the surviving crew were removed from the ship and the waters around it, the Longshaw was sunk by four torpedoes fired by a US destroyer to keep her from being used by the Japanese. My father, one of wounded, was rescued after 18 hours in the water dodging oil-slicks while trying to stay afloat.
I was a red shirt on a carrier, it used to denote ordinance, i don't know about way back then but 16:57 look at those guys just ho hum around all those whirling props, jeez !
The Princeton (nee Valley Forge) was commissioned in 1945 serving combat and support missions for an uninterrupted twenty-five years. Princeton (CV-37, CVA-37, CVS-37) first worked in the Atlantic and thence spanned a long and stellar career in the Pacific. She was eventually and sadly decommissioned for scrap in 1970.
As a former Navy Boatswains mate second class that served in the eighties I love these old Navy movies, I was never on a carrier but I had a buddy that left the frigate we were on and went to a carrier. He said it was a nightmare. Too many people and BS. However when I left the frigate i ended up on the 3rd fleet flagship USS Coronado AGF-11 with the admiral and his staff which was a bigger nightmare. It was like going from McHales Navy to the real Navy too much spit and polish and strict uniform of the day rules and staff officers that were Annapolis A-holes condescending arrogant and had attitudes like they had a cactus up their ass.
@@johnclawed I think on the flagship it was a tad bit better than the frigate. Honestly, I don’t really recall too much about it. It was just kind of mundane run of the mill food. The best chow I ever had in the Navy was when we would walk over to the submarine base being stationed at Pearl Harbor. We would dock near there and when we had the time we would walk over there and get lunch since we were not submariners or assigned to the submarine base we had to pay $.50 to eat there, but it was so worth it. It was the best chow I ever had in the Navy. When I was on the frigate which was my first ship, I broke my foot and had six months light duty assigned to the submarine museum at the submarine base and that’s when I would eat at the submarine base chow hall every day. On the frigate, we had a lot of Filipino cooks so we would eat a lot of Filipino and Asian style food, which was really good but then when they were trying to cook some traditional American food, they couldn’t get it quite right cause it just wasn’t their thing I remember one Thanksgiving on the frigate. I was eating mashed potatoes, cause I was on duty that day and in my mashed potatoes I pulled out a piece of paper that was the directions for the dehydrated potatoeswhich was kind of disappointing. They weren’t even serving us real potatoes on Thanksgiving.
I was aboard CV43 serving as a radioman for Commander Carrier Group 3 during Iranian hostage crisis (Jan-June 1980). My experience serving on a flag staff was quite the opposite. Perhaps no one was sweating the small stuff given the current events and our proximity to them, or it was simply good leadership and good staff. There was no friction that I observed from my narrow point of view even while underway for 102 consecutive days and no real days off. While the outcome of the mission hangs heavy, I do have fond memories COMCARGRU3 and CV43. Big boat, good food.
Sterling Hayden served in the Marine Corps..during WW2 before that he was in the army but he broke his ankle in training and was discharged and when he recovered from his injury he joined the Marines..Semper Fi to you Navy guys ..OohraH
it doesn't matter in the end because the story was was true in most ways. As most of us did not exist in those days we are quite content in seeing aircraft that were at least around then.
Producers do what they can with budget and availablity of stock footage. What _is_ unforgivable is not getting the in-studio replica of what is presumed to be a Zero cockpit right.
@@robertnagel337 According to several different sources, Sterling Hayden joined the Marine Corps after breaking his ankle in a parachute incident in the US Army. After graduating boot camp, he went to Officer Candidate School and worked intelligence (OSS) in the European Theater. The Central Intelligence Agency documents this on their official government website.
Watching old war movies after having served is a bit difficult. GREAT Stories but man some of the things they make look normal are scary!! Beginning of the movie gunnery practice. I get they didn't have much for hearing protection back then but those guys standing under the barrel of the 5'38's when they went off would have been flattened concussed and had their ear drums blown out. (Been within 75 yards of the 5'54 on a Spruance when it was fired. Even with plugs and muffs it hurt, and we felt the concussive blast even though it was firing broadside and I was aft on the bridge wing.
The only thing I hate about the Navy, is the Maibuoy watch standing at the Fantail for 3 hours from 9 thru 12 am waiting for the Ships Mail to drop from the Sky and it Never Arrived. I was 18 years old USS CONOUPUS AS 34 NAVAL WEAPONS STATIO GOOSE CREEK SOUTH CAROLINA
above average recruiting vid, good performances by Hayden et al. despite phoney Hollywood-scriptwriter yakking. Lotsa nice air/carrier footage.....some of it from 1944 attacks on Japanese shipping in Caroline Islands, Iwo Jima landing, etc. . Actual WW2 "USS Princeton" wasn't a heavy Essex-class carrier as depicted here in flashback, but a light Independence-class carrier....sunk during the Leyte Gulf air-sea battle, 24 October 1944. Next commissioned (1945) USS Princeton, CV 37, served in Korean and Vietnam wars.
With respect, I think they are Grumman F9F Panthers. Note the top of the vertical fin (where the red paint is), is rounded, not squared-off as in the (larger) F2H. The wing is different, too, but this is hard to appreciate head on. Some of the confusion comes from in the novel, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, the aircraft that Brubaker flies is described an an F2H but the film uses F9Fs, which the Navy was flying at the time it was made. The Panther would soon be replaced by the swept-wing Cougar, also called F9F but a different aircraft.
The cast moved on up in later years. Sterling Hayden to The Godfather, Richard Carlson to I Led Three Lives and Phyllis Coates to Superman. It is interesting to see these actors as youngsters. (Sort of)
How many planes can they have on deck like at 16:20ish and still be able to land and take off in WWII??? Also why is it when they show the ship midships is lit up like an orange fireball??? Is it just the film or something else???
When the planes are spotted for launch, 16:20 , they can't land aircraft. Only after the introduction of the angled flight deck could carriers launch and land planes simultaneously. The orange appears to be a reflection of a sunrise or sunset.
Everyone in the comments seems to enjoy the movie. Just a couple of points. Three planes take off, 2 pilots killed, no-one seems to care. Pilots have no situational awareness...in real combat you would be constantly scanning for Zeroes. And the 3rd pilot has a limitless supply of ammo. But it is Hollywood.
Anybody recognize Jimmy Olsen, Cub reporter from the Superman series? Jack Larson played the mate that tells them they're going to see the whole third fleet the next day.
Overall a decent movie. One gripe though, it gets confusing when the guys take off in Corsairs and shoot down zeros with Bearcats. Should have dug a little deeper in the film archives or dummied up some Bearcat cockpits for the closeups.
A sanitized, brief version of Princeton's service with film of planes that weren't in the squadron but the real story was about the pilots. The US Navy quickly trained thousands of pilots during WW2 from many different walks of civilian life and they turned out to be good pilots.
I googled the average ages of WW2 USN aviators and found that most started at age 19 to 2I yet most of the "just out of training" ensign pilots looked older! I know that in the 1940's early '5Os male hairstyles for teenagers/20 somethings looked like their fathers/uncles so I Googled through IDMB for this movie = made in 1952 - and found that most were 30 to 33 years old. Were the younger actors actually serving in Korea during filming or did Hollywood have reluctance to use 19 to 22 year olds? (Sterling Hayden & Richard Carlson as the Squadron Commander & Exec were at bit long in the tooth for the 1942 scenes - each at about 40 years old when the movie was made.
They don’t stay consistent in the war footage. They are supposed to be Corsair pilots but show formations of Hellcats on some of the sequences. Even torpedo booming sometimes. They had retired Navy consultants but I guess it didn’t help.
Movie is a WWII film using F4U & F4F squadrons. So why show P47's, dive bombers and torpedo bombers in the film clips of this squadron attacking ships? Even the Carrier was never used in WWII. It's really hard not to notice this stuff.
Our oldest son is an AF-18 mechanic aboard the USS Truman presently. On his second deployment. I have never seen this one before, however will most definitely show him this when he comes home. Thanks to all of you who have served!
GOD BLESS AND PROTECT YOUR FAMILY.
I DO NOT WANT WAR. ❤🙏🙏🙏🀄🙏🇺🇸🙏✝️❤️❤️🙏🙏
Your welcome. US Navy 73-76 Destroyer MM USS D B Beary DE-1085
@@USNavyDestroyerman bless you and your family.
If you send your son the youtube link, he can probably watch it right away.
(he’ll maybe need to download it first to avoid bandwidth trouble, while streaming.)
Please thank him for his service!!!
I worked on submarines. Every time I went on a carrier, i got hopelessly lost!
Great movie, never saw it before. Keep digging these gems out of the archives..
Great stuff
Saw this on TV when I was a kid. There was always a war movie on Saturday arvo's. These old war movies take me back. I remember this movie because my dad was going crazy because in the flight scene's a pilot goes from a F4U to a F4F, back to a F4U then back to a F4F 😆 . Great to see it again. My dad's been gone 30 years now but he was watching it with me tonight. 👍
Your pop was correct, the same thing was nagging at me =) I was a 6013 with VMA(AW)121 on board USS Ranger CV61 ,they show the pilot in a F4U cockpit then a Hell cat hitting the deck that's very annoying : /
@@anthonyhelton3326 I suppose that for us that were not there, it was still great, and I still admire the basic content.
No CGI in 1952. There's some matte work that's not too bad for a low budget film, though, or rear projection used in the first scenes with the planes taxiing by on the deck. I'd guess they used whatever official footage they could get for the formation scenes. Looks like there's a Devastator or Helldiver in the first combat scenes, too. I have the same problem with cars that change colors and models, are too young to be in the period-- or even if they have the wrong width whitewalls! But, given the constraints of the day, the story is what matters. Corsairs were still in use then, right?
The Enemy Below and A Night to Remember were my Father and Son grow up together movies.
My father is one of the sailors hauling on the lines that lift the mail bags up to the aircraft carrier in that movie. That ship, DD-559, USS Longshaw, a Fletcher-class Destroyer, was sunk off Okinawa on April 18, 1945, with 62% casualties. My father, though wounded, barely survived the ordeal.
Love to see these old movies. I honorably served aboard (CV-61) USS Ranger 84-87. Top Gun of the fleet!
I was in VF-1 "Wolfpack" from 90' till it decommissioned in 93'. I did two cruises on the Ranger with VF-1 including it's last cruise before it decommed in 93'. There is an awesome set of videos here on YT of a prior sailor doing a walk through of her right before they scrapped her. If you haven't seen them they will bring back a lot of memories. He actually stops and talks for a minute in one video directly next to the bunk I slept in on our Desert Storm cruise.
I was an IC Electrician and a Hole Snipe. Majority of my time was spent in 1 of the 4 main machinery rooms or in 1 of 2 auxiliary spaces, 4 shaft alleys, purple gang JP5 tank...equipment all over ship! Fwd and Aft IC gang
CV-61 87-90 Yes Sir Top Gun Of The Fleet!!
USS Coral Sea CVA-43, Tonkin Gulf 1968-1969.
My father is in this movie for a few seconds. At 57:26, when the Fletcher-class destroyer DD-559, the USS Longshaw, arrives with the aircraft carrier's mail, my 18-year-old father is the red-haired sailor with the slightly hunched-over stance who takes his turn hauling on the line that lifts the batch of mailbags up to the deck of the carrier. The actual USS Longshaw was sunk off Okinawa by a Japanese shorebattery on April 18th, 1945, after it had run aground a quarter mile off the coast of Okinawa while providing artillery support to the Marines ashore. The second shell that the shorebattery fired hit the Longshaw in its forward magazine, destroying the forward third of the ship. Of the 291-man crew, 86 were KIA, 95 were WIA, for a horrific 62% casualty rate. My father, though wounded, spent eighteen hours in the water before bein rescued. The USS Longshaw had earned 9 Battle Stars before she went down in WW2.
THE MOVIES FROM THIS ERA IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THESE MOVIES THERE MAKING TODAY❤
Absolutely
Most are brainwashed by Hollyweird's VIOLENCE, computer graphics, politics, & violence over sh*tty plots, acting, non existent chemistry etc etc etc
It’s not all of that ai special effects generated crap of todays movies, with snowflakes egotistical actors
Awesome movies of these classic war films I could watch all of them I feel so sorry for all who have died in oceans and other countries that where never seen again by there families. May those heroes rest in peace.
I served on the USSPrinceton the film that this movie is about, she never saw action in WW2, but she did see action in Korea. She was converted to an LPH and saw action during the Vietnam war as LPH 5 !
The Princeton used in the movie wasn't but the Princeton of WW2 sure did and was sunk by the Japanese.
LPH?
LPH (Landing Platform Helicopter)
The (CV-37) USS Princeton was indeed converted to an LPH (Amphibious Assault Ship) however as stated it was not built from the hull up as this type.
The first LPH of this class that was actually planned, built, and launched as a true "Amphib" was the USS Iwo Jima, LPH-2.
Seven ships of this type were built.
LPH-2 Iwo Jima
LPH-3 Okinawa
LPH-7 Guadalcanal
LPH-9 Guam
LPH-10 Tripoli
LPH-11 New Orleans
LPH-12 Inchon
I served on the Guadalcanal aka "Guad" from 1989 - 1993 as an MS (Mess Specialist aka cook) now known as CS (Culinary Specialist).
in World War II:
The USS Princeton was originally built as the USS Tallahassee (CL-61), but was converted into a carrier and renamed CV-23 before launching. It was commissioned in February 1943 and participated in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the invasion of Saipan, and the conquest of the Marshall Islands.
@@richardc7721 Sterling Hayden mentions the Princeton in the movie, The Eternal Sea, at 12.55, in relation to the invasion of Saipan.
I was one year old when they made this movie and this one i have never seen before! Watched it and really very realistic and fun to see! Great to see the old propeller fighters from world war 2 era that are very rare to find now in the years 2024/2025!
i thought Phil Hartman was really good as the 2nd squad leader. way before saturday night live.
Of course realistic, they threw actual combat footage into the movie.
Nowadays there's CGI so a pilot isn't in 10 different aircraft in a flight scene anymore. 😆
WHOEVER GAVE ME THAT THUMBS UP, THANK YOU FOR GETTING IT !
I watched fighters doing there job helping us in the Bonnie’s we didn’t care what type of jet it was they were there to help us
My dad was a "hot papa" on the Princeton in Korean War. They had squadrons of F9F and Corsairs. He also was stationed on the USS Philippine Sea. Good movie. Thanks to all our servicemen for your brave action and let us always remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice with their life. God Bless you all!🇺🇸🙏
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great movies, old they may be. there's a poignant touch in them that seems priceless. takes me back in time when heroes sprang from those who perhaps never expected to be. i can hear cheers from loved ones while tears rolled down their cheeks. thanks to those who had served the nation.
Una grata sorpresa toparse con estos filmes clásicos del género bélico.
Saludos y bendiciones a todos los cinéfilos de corazón desde Venezuela.
I would have loved to have flown some of those aircraft, what an inspiration and a rush.!
👍👍👍AWESOME MOVIE!!!!! I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THIS ONE!!!!! THANK YOU 😘
Can't believe ive never seen this movie from 52 year i entered this world
December 1952
May 1952
Sterling Hayden ferried arms and agents in small sailing boats around the Aegean sea during WWII. A hero in every sense of the word.
First I heard that, thanks'
@@george-z6t5wHe enlisted in the US Army and became a paratrooper. He broke his leg so badly in a training accident in England he was given a discharge. Returned stateside he joined the Marines under an assumed name, was commissioned an officer and was recruited by the OSS. He parachuted into Yugoslavia where he helped downed allied airmen escape, and, using his extensive sailing experience, ran supplies by sea to Yugoslavian guerrillas. He was awarded one of Yugoslavia’s highest awards for heroism by Marshall Tito. He was also an accomplished author, writing a critically acclaimed novel and autobiography.
@@IncogNito-gg6uh He was also a Silver Star recipient.
@@feraxks Thanks for adding that. He never hid his admiration for Tito, either. I’m surprised he didn’t get blacklisted.
@@IncogNito-gg6uh He testified before McCarthy's committee and named names. That's what kept him from being blacklisted. It was also something he later said he regretted doing.
Great movie... Thanks!
Great action movie... its a classic so ive seen it a number of times ... actual combat footage is included.. ☆
Remember this movie from when I was 12 and cruising channels...I watched and read tons of navy war movies and books...one day I realized I became what I read when I was taking readings between the main engines of the sub I was serving on...
I thank you for your service! 🇺🇸
I never saw this movie before, Very enjoyable. Thanks viewed in San Diego, California USA
I just love how in these movies, a F4-U Corsair can strafe, turn into a Curtiss SB2 Helldiver drop a bomb, pull up and turn back into a Corsair. And then miss with a bomb attack turn into a Curtiss XBT2C and drop a torpedo.
And also how they never run out of ammo. Max payload was 2400 rounds for 6 .50 cal guns
Sloppy editing by people content to string together whatever random bits of footage they could get.
they were a pretty talented mob in those days.
Happens in movies all the time. The movie makers don't realize that what they produce should be accurate. The latest booboo I encountered was the gibberish posing as Morse Code in the "Titanic" movie...
It’s a movie. Not a documentary. Just watch it and enjoy it.
Great and inspiring film. Sterling Hayden and Richard Carlson were great actors who were also human beings unlike some of the actors we have tolerate these days.
There’s always at least a dozen of such comments, harkening back “for the good old days.” Lol
It’s a ridiculous piece of propaganda, but it’s entertaining and features some great aircraft carrier landings and Thunderbolt vs Zero battles.
The film is a a ridiculous piece of propaganda, but it’s entertaining, has a strong cast who turn in good performances, and features some great aircraft carrier landings and Thunderbolt vs Zero air battles (even if they are repeated ad nauseam). Thanks for making it available, Tala!
Sterling Hayden cowardly caved and testified to McCarthy's un-American Activitied Committee.
@@fifthbusiness1678 It seems you condone the current sick agendas and propaganda out of the studios.
It's funny because its true!
Good movie. Thanks for sharing!
I'm a massive Sterling Hayden fan and love any film that involves the U.S. Navy so this picture was just outstanding for me.
I believe he was with the Yugoslavia Underground during WW2. I also read, that he hated acting and only did it for the money.
Sterling Hayden, a bloody fine all round man.
He only drinks pure rain water, or grain alcohol. "Do you realise that fluoridation is the most monstrously-conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?"
Just finished day one. Yay! Great job Charlie and everyone.(Gerry, NC USA)
Thank you for sharing this terrific film💖.
"Inform Ensign Mallory he's just been grounded."
Perfect ending.
About the worst thing you can do as a carrier pilot is to land when you've been signaled to wave off (go around). Your only defense is that it all happened so fast and at the last second that you couldn't avoid it. If they thought that you did it deliberately you would probably be put in front of a review board and might lose your "wings".
Twice Hayden plays in a movie about Flat-tops.
This one and 1952,
The Eternal Sea.
and one about B-52 bombers.... and fluoridation.
Great Movie
Great movie, I thought I'd seen them all at 86. I guess bot.
It's a good movie despite all the mistakes and all the criticism in the comments by people who weren't even born when it was made
The types of aircraft were known, even back then. Also, Iwo Jima didn't look like the Philippines. Technical advisor took money under false pretenses.
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Ya but who really cares now
Hollywood used all kinds of actual footage making movies back then. At least it's real
The best part for me is still working and flying in those old warbirds Happy new year
The chiefs n petty offi ers were the true enemy
❤❤ caring is sharing😂🎉 shipmate? Ya grounded😅@@stuartlynn-q8q
Yep. Maybe they should just enjoy the movie for what it is. Bloody good entertainment.
Excellent. Classic war. Movie. 💣🔥💣 whit perfect. Script. And. Story. I. Miss. These. Top. Classic. Movies. Thy. Are. Tarific. To. Watch. Them. 🎉🎉🎉🎉 👌👏👏👌💣🔥💣
you could learn to spell a bit better, 😄 says me that came C in my class ha ha. I agree, a classic movie with lots of real war footage from a time a few years before I was born, very impressed and awed with what these guys had to endure in WW2.
❤ Thanks for sharing this one! 🇺🇸
Excellent film with some fantastic flying sequences. Thank you. 1:25:02
Look Everybody, It's Jimmy Olsen of the Daily Planet at time mark 55:45! He should have called for Superman's help! Great movie. Thanks for posting.
@petercermak1910 • Also Phyllis Coates who played the first Louis Lane from Superman. Both in this picture.
57:12 USS Longshaw . Lost to shore fire at Okinawa after grounding on a reef. May 1945.
The series Superman started in 1952 so both Jack Larson and Phyllis Coates must have gone straight from this movie to the Superman studio.
Love when the squadron returns from their first flight and enter their quarters. They are then taking off their khaki uniform instead of a flight suit. I can't watch these anymore having restored a TBM Avenger and am still restoring a sister ship to the Princeton. Things stand out making me say wrong. However, if I saw this when 10 years old I would be captivated.
@@tbm3fan913 serms no war movie can ever be consistent. Like when B17 are on a bombing mission at 35-40 thousand feet. One has not flight suit the next are all bundled up with oxygen masks.
@Tala Zeidan - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE POST :-) Bobby Estey - Constellation CV64 (77-81) - wow, the landings are real tight back then. Today you get a STRAIGHT SHOT from 0.75 miles, NOT, a last minute turn. We had a saying, "Sailors, Fighters and Flattop Riders" 1:16:47 - Ticonderoga CV14. LOL at the ending, another Ensign refusing a Waveoff
Sterling Hayden was an underrated stud.
Read his book "Wanderers", published in the early '60s. It's interesting and even amusing, but it reveals that he had been content to sell people out if they were in the way of his career.
I think I've seen at least three movies now where it starts with a pilot ignoring the wave off and getting grounded.
At least two movies.
Mr. Roger's 🤦 Henry Fonda . 🤔 did similar play and movie. Thank you for posting this movie. 😊
CV37 in this movie was the Essex Class USS Princeton. She never served in WW2, commissioned late in 1945 after Japan's surrender. She was scrapped in 1971.
A great amount of actual WW2 battle footage. The US carrier-based planes used in this film appear to be mostly Vought F4U Corsairs -
@Baskerville22 The Fletcher-class destroyer that delivered the mail in the movie, DD-559, the USS Longshaw, was sunk a quarter mile off Okinawa on April 18, 1945, with 86 KIA, and 95 wounded. My father was one of those wounded. The Longshaw had 9 Battle Stars when she went down.
@@damnhandy How was she sunk ? Kamikazi ?
@Baskerville22 She ran aground a quarter mile off the coast of Okinawa while on a two-week-long fire-support mission supporting Marines ashore. While tugs were trying to pull the Longshaw off the reef, a hidden Japanese shorebattery began shelling it. Their first shell landed thirty yards away from the Longshaw, but their second shell hit the forward magazine. The resulting explosion shredded the forward third of the ship, instantly killing 86 men, and wounding 95 more; a horrific 62% of her 291-man crew, according to the official records. After the surviving crew were removed from the ship and the waters around it, the Longshaw was sunk by four torpedoes fired by a US destroyer to keep her from being used by the Japanese. My father, one of wounded, was rescued after 18 hours in the water dodging oil-slicks while trying to stay afloat.
@@damnhandy One in a thousand lucky shot by the Japs. You came close to never being born.
@@Baskerville22 Shorefire after grounding on an uncharted shoal/reef.
the carrier protrayed in this movie is the USS Princeton CV-37
Great movie, Thanks.
Corsair is certainly a sexy looking aircraft, but was also a very good one too
Very nice film to watch good action God Bless America
My dad was in an aerographers mate aboard the CVA 66 USS America
Enjoyed near real film for the year it was made.❤
Kind of funny how they takeoff in one plane and then land in another ha ha Good show
And in the final battle, they arm the planes with 500 lb bombs and rockets and they take off with only drop tanks attached.
Good movie. Liked how SBD HELLCATS ANF F4U ARE INTERCHANGEABLE
I was wondering if this squadron was flying Corsairs, or torpedo bombers….
Oh the tender moments between ship buddies.
I was a red shirt on a carrier, it used to denote ordinance, i don't know about way back then but 16:57 look at those guys just ho hum around all those whirling props, jeez !
and no ear defenders.
@@bobsakamanos4469 mickey mouse ears.
Training is all. The old saying: familiarity breeds contempt. They're paying attention.
@@spikespa5208 i get it , 19 year old kids who got it totally together.
👍 interesujący film z użyciem autentycznych maszyn
Cant believe i missed this one...4.0
Great Movie I Miss Movies Like This
I. Can. Understand. You. That is. The. True. 👌💣👌😉
Good movie!
The Princeton (nee Valley Forge) was commissioned in 1945 serving combat and support missions for an uninterrupted twenty-five years. Princeton (CV-37, CVA-37, CVS-37) first worked in the Atlantic and thence spanned a long and stellar career in the Pacific. She was eventually and sadly decommissioned for scrap in 1970.
As a former Navy Boatswains mate second class that served in the eighties I love these old Navy movies, I was never on a carrier but I had a buddy that left the frigate we were on and went to a carrier. He said it was a nightmare. Too many people and BS. However when I left the frigate i ended up on the 3rd fleet flagship USS Coronado AGF-11 with the admiral and his staff which was a bigger nightmare. It was like going from McHales Navy to the real Navy too much spit and polish and strict uniform of the day rules and staff officers that were Annapolis A-holes condescending arrogant and had attitudes like they had a cactus up their ass.
But how was the chow?
I know the type. They're the reason I didn't make it a career!
some things never change ...like whining swabbies ....man your brooms
@@johnclawed I think on the flagship it was a tad bit better than the frigate. Honestly, I don’t really recall too much about it. It was just kind of mundane run of the mill food. The best chow I ever had in the Navy was when we would walk over to the submarine base being stationed at Pearl Harbor. We would dock near there and when we had the time we would walk over there and get lunch since we were not submariners or assigned to the submarine base we had to pay $.50 to eat there, but it was so worth it. It was the best chow I ever had in the Navy. When I was on the frigate which was my first ship, I broke my foot and had six months light duty assigned to the submarine museum at the submarine base and that’s when I would eat at the submarine base chow hall every day. On the frigate, we had a lot of Filipino cooks so we would eat a lot of Filipino and Asian style food, which was really good but then when they were trying to cook some traditional American food, they couldn’t get it quite right cause it just wasn’t their thing I remember one Thanksgiving on the frigate. I was eating mashed potatoes, cause I was on duty that day and in my mashed potatoes I pulled out a piece of paper that was the directions for the dehydrated potatoeswhich was kind of disappointing. They weren’t even serving us real potatoes on Thanksgiving.
I was aboard CV43 serving as a radioman for Commander Carrier Group 3 during Iranian hostage crisis (Jan-June 1980). My experience serving on a flag staff was quite the opposite. Perhaps no one was sweating the small stuff given the current events and our proximity to them, or it was simply good leadership and good staff. There was no friction that I observed from my narrow point of view even while underway for 102 consecutive days and no real days off. While the outcome of the mission hangs heavy, I do have fond memories COMCARGRU3 and CV43. Big boat, good food.
Sterling Hayden served in the Marine Corps..during WW2 before that he was in the army but he broke his ankle in training and was discharged and when he recovered from his injury he joined the Marines..Semper Fi to you Navy guys ..OohraH
The director either didn't know, or didn't have access to the file film, of the right kinds of aircraft for this story.
it doesn't matter in the end because the story was was true in most ways. As most of us did not exist in those days we are quite content in seeing aircraft that were at least around then.
Producers do what they can with budget and availablity of stock footage. What _is_ unforgivable is not getting the in-studio replica of what is presumed to be a Zero cockpit right.
This is the movies that made me want to join the Navy many years ago
Semper Fi Sterling Hayden!
He wasn’t a marine. He was, however a hero.
@@robertnagel337 According to several different sources, Sterling Hayden joined the Marine Corps after breaking his ankle in a parachute incident in the US Army. After graduating boot camp, he went to Officer Candidate School and worked intelligence (OSS) in the European Theater. The Central Intelligence Agency documents this on their official government website.
@ I didn’t see that in the source I used. We can stand by the “bad ass” description though.
A commercial in the opening credits, that’s a new one enjoy your Couple of pennies
Thank you and every other military member, past, present & future for your service.
Good movie, only thing is sometimes you see them taking off in Corsairs, and somehow mid flight or battle, they're in Hellcats and vice versa.
XO is a Phil Hartman lookalike, even talks like him. Scary close.
Kinda reminds me of the John Wayne movie with Robert Ryan as his ecxecutive in the flying leathernecks
Thanks
Great Action War Movie 🎬, The Kind I Like 👍 😊
Thank you Talia. I tip my hat
Watching old war movies after having served is a bit difficult. GREAT Stories but man some of the things they make look normal are scary!! Beginning of the movie gunnery practice. I get they didn't have much for hearing protection back then but those guys standing under the barrel of the 5'38's when they went off would have been flattened concussed and had their ear drums blown out. (Been within 75 yards of the 5'54 on a Spruance when it was fired. Even with plugs and muffs it hurt, and we felt the concussive blast even though it was firing broadside and I was aft on the bridge wing.
phil hartman did a fine job in this role,
BATTLE TAXI
Starring Sterling Hayden
Great Korean War Movie
1955
The only thing I hate about the Navy, is the Maibuoy watch standing at the Fantail for 3 hours from 9 thru 12 am waiting for the Ships Mail to drop from the Sky and it Never Arrived. I was 18 years old USS CONOUPUS AS 34 NAVAL WEAPONS STATIO GOOSE CREEK SOUTH CAROLINA
The newest guy from boot camp on my first ship looked from the bow for the mail bouy while underway from 0600 to 1130.
Great Movie ? I feel I watched a Movie of a lot of Adverts with a little snip of the movie inbetween
above average recruiting vid, good performances by Hayden et al. despite phoney Hollywood-scriptwriter yakking. Lotsa nice air/carrier footage.....some of it from 1944 attacks on Japanese shipping in Caroline Islands, Iwo Jima landing, etc. . Actual WW2 "USS Princeton" wasn't a heavy Essex-class carrier as depicted here in flashback, but a light Independence-class carrier....sunk during the Leyte Gulf air-sea battle, 24 October 1944. Next commissioned (1945) USS Princeton, CV 37, served in Korean and Vietnam wars.
At the start of the film, the jet fighters, which are landing on the carrier, are McDonnell F2H 'Banshees'.
With respect, I think they are Grumman F9F Panthers. Note the top of the vertical fin (where the red paint is), is rounded, not squared-off as in the (larger) F2H. The wing is different, too, but this is hard to appreciate head on.
Some of the confusion comes from in the novel, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, the aircraft that Brubaker flies is described an an F2H but the film uses F9Fs, which the Navy was flying at the time it was made. The Panther would soon be replaced by the swept-wing Cougar, also called F9F but a different aircraft.
My father was a boilerman on the Princeton during the Korean war.
The cast moved on up in later years. Sterling Hayden to The Godfather, Richard Carlson to I Led Three Lives and Phyllis Coates to Superman. It is interesting to see these actors as youngsters. (Sort of)
How many planes can they have on deck like at 16:20ish and still be able to land and take off in WWII??? Also why is it when they show the ship midships is lit up like an orange fireball??? Is it just the film or something else???
When the planes are spotted for launch, 16:20 , they can't land aircraft. Only after the introduction of the angled flight deck could carriers launch and land planes simultaneously. The orange appears to be a reflection of a sunrise or sunset.
Balang riverside watching
I love it twelve o’clock high on a boat…..if I want your opinion….I’ll give it to you
Why didn’t they have air cover?
Because Maverick kept buzzing the tower, so the skipper put an end to that.
Everyone in the comments seems to enjoy the movie. Just a couple of points. Three planes take off, 2 pilots killed, no-one seems to care. Pilots have no situational awareness...in real combat you would be constantly scanning for Zeroes. And the 3rd pilot has a limitless supply of ammo. But it is Hollywood.
Anybody recognize Jimmy Olsen, Cub reporter from the Superman series? Jack Larson played the mate that tells them they're going to see the whole third fleet the next day.
Overall a decent movie. One gripe though, it gets confusing when the guys take off in Corsairs and shoot down zeros with Bearcats. Should have dug a little deeper in the film archives or dummied up some Bearcat cockpits for the closeups.
Great movie.Thank you for uploading it.
Really good movie but too many commercials, especially toward the end when there is one every two-three minutes.
A sanitized, brief version of Princeton's service with film of planes that weren't in the squadron but the real story was about the pilots. The US Navy quickly trained thousands of pilots during WW2 from many different walks of civilian life and they turned out to be good pilots.
I googled the average ages of WW2 USN aviators and found that most started at age 19 to 2I yet most of the "just out of training" ensign pilots looked older!
I know that in the 1940's early '5Os male hairstyles for teenagers/20 somethings looked like their fathers/uncles so I Googled through IDMB for this movie = made in 1952 - and found that most were 30 to 33 years old.
Were the younger actors actually serving in Korea during filming or did Hollywood have reluctance to use 19 to 22 year olds? (Sterling Hayden & Richard Carlson as the Squadron Commander & Exec were at bit long in the tooth for the 1942 scenes - each at about 40 years old when the movie was made.
At 45:00 where was the protective screen of smaller war ships - cruisers & destroyers etc?
I've always liked William Schallert.
no one plays a hard ass as well as sterling hayden.
Go NAVY and bless the USMC!
Navy pilots - where every landing is a spot landing on a rolling deck after navigating back to a carrier that's moved since launch.
A carrier task force with NO CAP flying?
They don’t stay consistent in the war footage. They are supposed to be Corsair pilots but show formations of Hellcats on some of the sequences. Even torpedo booming sometimes. They had retired Navy consultants but I guess it didn’t help.
Ever notice that there are very few overweight actors in the old days.
Nor overweight soldier's or sailors.
Those were the days. When I was a kid, there were no fat ones. Everyone spent time outside doing chores or playing football & had six packs.
Are we flying corsairs, hellcats or SBDs? I’m confused. Lol
😂 !
It's good to see the variety so kids can practice a/c ident.
Movie is a WWII film using F4U & F4F squadrons. So why show P47's, dive bombers and torpedo bombers in the film clips of this squadron attacking ships? Even the Carrier was never used in WWII. It's really hard not to notice this stuff.