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A Non-Classified Film from the United States Navy. World War Two: The USS Guadalcanal's seizure of a German U-Boat.
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Title card: United States Navy Report Non-classified P.S.L. 1945 Away Borders
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Illustrations depicting naval warfare during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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Fade In to montage of Germans manning a U-Boat. Sailors, Captains and Navigators use periscopes. Torpedoes are launched. CU hand clicks a timer. Ships explode. Ships are hit and slowly sink into the Atlantic Ocean. Night shots of sailors celebrating after sinking a ship, leaving behind a wall of smoke and fire.
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Wide LS of US baby flat top carriers and a destroyer escort at sea. Tight LS of fighter jets taking off. MS fighter jet taking off from aircraft carrier. Air- to- air shot of two jets flying side by side amongst the clouds. Aerial shot of US destroyer. Montage of a US destroyer in battle: guns firing, torpedoes launches, depth charges being released and exploding. Good Aerial charges of depth charges exploding behind aircraft carrier.
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LS U.S.S. Guadalcanal at sea. High angle shot of Captain and crew assembled on deck. Many first time sailors are part of the crew. CU Captain Daniel Vincent Gallery.
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May 15th 1944 Aerial LS of USS Guadalcanal out to sea with her five destroyer escorts--- USS Flaherty, USS Pillsbury, USS Pope, USS Chatelain and USS Jenks.
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Tomahawk fighter being positioned for takeoff from the carrier.
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Sailors being picked to board the USS Guadalcanal. MSs CUs Photographer adjusting his camera. Pharmacist Raymond Jackson measuring liquids in a beaker. Naval lieutenant sitting at his office desk. Electrician making adjustments aboard the ship. Machinist working on mechanics of the ship. Commander radios into a speaker box to another part of the ship.
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Aerial flyover of USS Pillsbury. Lieutenant and crew above deck smiling for camera. Animated map of the six destroyers at sea on June 4th 1944. USS Chatelain contacts other ships about possible submarine location. Aerial shot of USS Guadalcanal. Map portraying action at sea. USS Chatelain sails. CU depth charges are fired. Tomahawk fighters descend over submarine s location. Animated map portrays submarine s maneuverers. CU depth charges are fired. Explosion. Naval sailors peering through binoculars with all crew at battle stations. Guns are aimed for firing. U-boat rises to the surface as planes fly overhead. Graphics show planes firing upon the U-boat.
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U-boat floating just above the water. Soldiers firing at target with long guns. Shaky footage shots being fired at sea. High Angle shot of two long guns firing. Tomahawk fighters flying overhead. Nazis (Germans) evacuate the submarine into rafts.
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Tomahawk fighter flying low over sinking submarine. USS Chatelain moves in closer. Sailors prepare to lower long boats. US Navy boards an enemy craft at sea. German UT 505 staying afloat.
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USS Pillsbury moves in with officers from the USS Guadalcanal in boats. Men board the German U-boat as it starts to sink. The crews scramble to keep her afloat as other ships move in.
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Germans are brought aboard the USS Chatelain to get warm and dry. Men stand and sit above deck conversing. Captain looks down on his ship.
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USS Pillsbury works to tie up the German submarine but high seas forces the sub to damage the ship. USS Guadalcanal decides to tow it. LS U.S.S. Guadalcanal sailing. Naval officers work to get the tow lines in place. German U-boat is brought back above water waving the American flag.
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Aerial USS Guadalcanal towing the U-boat. Tomahawk fighters come in for landing on the carrier. German prisoners are brought abroad. A man is lifted aboard by stretcher. Germans are made to exercise above deck. They re bathed by water hoses.
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German U-boat is transferred from USS Guadalcanal to another ship to be taxied into an American port. Crews watch as the submarine starts to sink but it salvaged. The American Flag waves aboard the German U-boat. UT 505 is brought into port.
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LS USS Guadalcanal at sea. Silhouette illustration of a tall ship with sails open. End Credit.