Victory as Sea

[Oldiron]

Witzell, was just reading the up-dates on this post and it struck me that no one had mentioned "Silent Service", then low and behold you had popped up with it. Well done..
Larry

 

[Malpasowildlifer]

I loved watching Victory at Sea re-runs as a child

 

[MOONDAWG]

You can watch the entire series for free on YouTube.

Just go to their site and type "Victory at Sea" in the search box and hit enter...

 

[mi2600]

My dad and I used to watch Victory At Sea on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 (EST), I believe.

I recently bought the dvd series. Love the music.

I also bought the series "Crusade In Europe" and "Crusade In The Pacific" a while back. Both preceded Victory. Latter 50s I think.

 

[11B Lifer]

An error on my part

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?

Episode 2 depicting the attack on Pearl Harbor does have Dauntless Dive Bombers dropping bombs-albeit Japanese markings are on the wings etc.
This type of stunt would cause vets to turn the TV off-

 

[GaryS]

Episode 2 depicting the attack on Pearl Harbor does have Dauntless Dive Bombers dropping bombs-albeit Japanese markings are on the wings etc.
This type of stunt would cause vets to turn the TV off-

You noticed that too, huh? I have to revise one of my earlier statements, or as the politicians would say, it's inoperative, about not doing reenactments.

I can kind of understand needing to do some recreations for Pearl Harbor. There wasn't a tremendous amount of photography going on that day as people were busy avoiding being killed. Much of what exists if of the aftermath, not the actual event.

Much of the Japanese footage and still shots were destroyed (as were most of the participants and all of the Japanese fleet) during the course of the war. I suspect that most of the Japanese images from the attack lie at the bottom of the Pacific.

Still, the series has a lot of benefit because there is footage that I've not seen elsewhere.

I've started re watching the series when I ride my exercise bike. It's more interesting than watching the painfully slow progress of the numbers. So far, I think the series holds up very well 60+ years later.

 

[DWalt]

John Ford's 1943 documentary "December 7th" is the earliest telling of the attack on Pearl Harbor and one of the most informative. It was a re-creation of the attack and used U.S. planes as stand-ins for Japanese aircraft. Allegedly, it was originally 90 minutes long, but prior to public release, about 60 minutes were censored out by the Navy as being detrimental to public morale. I don't think any copies of the uncut original version exist.