https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/0d04b59b-ee19-41e6-8bee-9451c2d38150 “Operation Seadragon” is a 1958 black-and-white episode of the docudrama “The Silent Service” — about the U.S. Navy's submarine fleet. The were based on fact and the realism was heightened by actual use of combat footage from the files of the Navy. The stories were varied between the South Pacific during World War II and the Korean War. The series was the brainchild of Rear Admiral Thomas M. Dykers, who retired from the Navy in 1949 after 22 years service and introduces this episode. This episode stars Richard Deacon, James McCallion, Mark Tapscott, Paul Carr, Wally Richard, David Whorf, Baynes Barron and Leonard A. Mazzola. The episode is set in December 1942 aboard the USS Seadragon (SS-194) and the viewer is given a brief history of the vessel and how it came under attack by Japanese depth charges. Running out of air and with a Japanese sub trailing them, the captain gives the order to surface at mark 07:45 and to prepare to fire. On the surface and firing torpedoes at a Japanese vessel at mark 09:45 and take fire in return but successful elude the enemy. At mark 13:05, some of the officers question why their skipper didn’t stay and fight rather than turn from the battle, only to learn at mark 14:00 of his plan to take the sub into Rabaul Harbor in Papua New Guinea, where the Japanese have a naval installation and have based their subs. “No doggone Japanese sub is going to shoot at my boat and get away with it!” the skipper tells his men. After locating and firing on the sub at mark 17:15 the Seadragon falls under attack from an enemy bomber, jamming a live torpedo in her firing tube. Dropping to 150 feet the captain realizes they can’t surface and they can’t run because the vibration may detonate the torpedo, so he decides to use a blast of air to jettison it from the tube. The idea was successful (mark 22:23) and though the blast damaged the sub the crew was able to save themselves and the ship. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88lJnLEJZRI Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:17:27 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/0d04b59b-ee19-41e6-8bee-9451c2d38150 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.