Victory as Sea

[wnwitzell]

I remember watching this show on Sundays with my dad. The soundtrack is as riveting and explosive as the documentary. I remember a huge TV set with a tiny black and white screen. And the foil wrapped rabbit ears!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-EXNounv-U

 

[ralph7]

I remember watching it with my dad as well. Show must be pretty old, since my dad died in 1961.
He served on the Enterprise during WW2, so I'm sure this show held special meaning to him.

 

[GaryS]

I remembered it as a kid and bought the complete set on DVD a few years ago. Very dramatic narration and some very graphic footage. No reenactments, no fancy graphics, just footage from the actual battles.

Black and white, so kids today have little interest in watching it.

Their loss.

 

[Lee in Quartzsite]

Many great episodes on YouTube...watched a few with my grandson. He was very much interested in the shows we watched. Just do a search for Victory at Sea on YouTube.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Great old show............

Never saw a show that I did not like.

 

[steveno]

one of the video stores in town had the dvd set for $10 in the discount section. it is still one of the best

 

[federali]

I too watched Victory at Sea

You should be aware that the soundtrack was available and part of an LP album. If you don't already have it, I'm sure you can flush it out online. I'd send you mine but it didn't survive the last cull of LPs.

 

[CoronaDan]

I remember lots of actual footage of ships at war. Held a fascination for me as my dad served aboard the original Hornet in WW2. Great series.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Yes, my family watched it, I can still see the opening credits, and I have the LP of the soundtrack. Confess when I tried to watch it a few years ago I found it dated.

 

[shouldazagged]

Yes, my family watched it, I can still see the opening credits, and I have the LP of the soundtrack. Confess when I tried to watch it a few years ago I found it dated.

It is dated, and so am I. I think the production values then available seem so primitive to viewers accustomed to dazzling CGI and digitally enhanced photography that it disappoints them.

Understandable, but to me it's still utterly fascinating. I haven't watched any of it in years, but may just do that soon.

 

[rwsmith]

I haven't see this in SO long....

I'm going to have to check around and watch some. I don't even mind it being in B&W.

 

[RudyN]

I remember seeing it on the B&W TV and it is a great series. I managed to get a copy on DVDS.

 

[kaaskop49]

Gonna stand in (poorly) for The Ringo Kid here. If you're buying the set, beware of the bargain bin $5 versions. Taken off very poor prints with garbled sound. Been there, done that.

Later bought the set from History Channel/NBC News hosted by the late Peter Graves. $29.95 in Best Buy a decade ago. Wonder if cheaper now. Worth it.

Kaaskop49
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P.S. Just dug out the set. Gonna watch my favorite episode: Suicide for Glory.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I found it dated in the tone of the narration-OK, it was made in 1952-and in the history. I watched the episode on Midway where the narrator says Nimitz "deduced" where the Japanese would attack next. The reality was we had been brekaing Japanese codes since 1919, we kept picking up references to "AH" as a Japanese objective. They sent out those dummy messages that the desalinization and filtration units on Midway had broken down, then we intercepted a message saying "AH needs water".

 

[11B Lifer]

No Other Love (Have I)

My dad watched it and my parents bought the record sound track-The appeal is the great footage-some of the captured film of aircraft is very rare- The WW2 generation appreciated the documentary in that it is accurate yet dramatic-
Later "movies" depicted US aircraft bombing Pearl Harbor-(Dauntless Dive Bombers) and other such frauds as the younger generations lost interest in the war.
My dad had been a fighter pilot in the China Burma theater-The series helped to militarize me-I love it still-
What stories will be told of the new "greatest generation" that are voluntarily fighting today?

 

[GaryS]

It's more than likely that when the series was produced it was still highly classified information exactly how the USN knew where the Japanese fleet was likely to be.

It was decades before much of that information was declassified. The technology in 1952 wasn't all that much more advanced than it had been in 1942 and some of those techniques might still have been in use.

I found it dated in the tone of the narration-OK, it was made in 1952-and in the history. I watched the episode on Midway where the narrator says Nimitz "deduced" where the Japanese would attack next. The reality was we had been brekaing Japanese codes since 1919, we kept picking up references to "AH" as a Japanese objective. They sent out those dummy messages that the desalinization and filtration units on Midway had broken down, then we intercepted a message saying "AH needs water".

 

[STCM(SW)]

The movies were shown to the guys on weekends to fill time for Navy reserve people for many years.....

Yea, I ran the show from time to time....

 

[BigCityChief]

My Dad and I enjoyed it very much.


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[jlrhiner]

It wasn't Peter Graves, I believe it was Robert Graves. I just watched the whole series at deer camp. Loaded with propaganda, but outstanding to waste time with.

 

[kaaskop49]

Jim, we have two men named Graves here. Peter Graves was the host/"MC" for the History Channel/NBC re-issue of the series in, I believe, 1995. Leonard Graves provided the stirring (to me) narration for each episode.

We are both correct! Happy Thanksgiving!

Kaaskop49
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