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SEA => SUBS: Gato => BuSHIPS => Topic started by: Rokket on 21 Nov , 2008, 01:42

Title: Gato WWII footage
Post by: Rokket on 21 Nov , 2008, 01:42

Thanks to Ted Swider for this link at Realmilitaryflix:

http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/794.cfm (http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/794.cfm)


Mix of color and various Gatos, great stuff!

Title: Re: Gato WWII footage
Post by: wildspear on 21 Nov , 2008, 09:57

Great footage, loved it.

Title: Re: Gato WWII footage
Post by: bill_c on 27 Jul , 2009, 20:30

It's not for the faint-hearted, but it appears Mush Morton wasn't the only captain shooting shipwrecked Japanese sailors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52UhQdww8s4

Title: Re: Gato WWII footage
Post by: Rokket on 28 Jul , 2009, 02:52

Interesting footage - in 2 parts - the tech/modeler side of seeing a sub in seas yay!), and then the shooting side, not so yay.

In Torpedo Junction, about uboat attacks on the East Coast of USA, it was a mixed bag too:tales of uboats ramming survivors in boats/rafts and killing them, and a tale of one uboat sending over a compass and water.

Title: Re: Gato WWII footage
Post by: wildspear on 28 Jul , 2009, 05:24

That was some interesting and graphic footage. I won't condem it because things happen in war that may not make sense out of war. They must have had reasons for doing that sort of thing, whether they were good or bad.

Title: Re: Gato WWII footage
Post by: Rokket on 30 Jul , 2009, 05:09

Ya, the standard about Mush Morton is that he "hated" Japanese and machined gunned those lifeboat survivors, but the bigger story is that the survivors shot first. Who knows? History is written by the victirs (at least partly). Yet we can't be romanced, or jingoistic, and say bad deeds on our part were always justified. There's so much grey in war. Maybe some nastiness can be....downplayed, at least...it's pretty easy to be angry with an enemy that started a war and treated prisoners so, so horribly.

My friend's mother was basically a Saint. Wonderfully kind, and tested and qualified by layers of Life. Yet she really, really didn't like the Japanese. She of course had friends and family directly affected by Pearl Harbor and was a young lass who married a young Lt. in 1942, so...

My wife works for a big company, and a Trainer came from another city to teach people some corporate thing. She was German, spoke with an accent though an Aussie, and she was telling a tale and said, "Vell, when we lost ze war..." and my wife was thinking, hmmm, "we" didn't lose!