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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1495-11
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940s
Country: Japan
Location: Pacific
TC Begins: 11:47:53
TC Ends: 11:56:00
Duration: 00:08:07
WWII - Japanese Submarine Service Film Reel Japanese sailors look through periscope & taking notes in Japanese submarine 11:48:19 Several men going up ladder & through hatch to exterior deck, seen from below & above. 11:48:31 Deck gun fired at night 11:49:00 Enemy vessel burning (dark night; SV; simulated). 11:49:52 Survivor (white man), wearing life jacket, comes down ladder in Japanese sub. CUs. 11:50:13 Many wooden plates hanging underneath miniature shrine where successes in battles are recorded (score board of enemy ships sunk). 11:50:40 Man worshipping at the shrine, bows.. 11:50:57 Torpedoes loaded into launcher in sub; door closed. 11:51:27 Man (probably commander) speaking to several sailors around the launcher. 11:52:01 Periscope raised; sea (through periscope); one vessel on horizon. CUs men looking. 11:52:22 Several merchant ships; men looking. 11:52:42 Several men by the torpedo launcher fire at enemy ship; they become silent, listen for explosion. 11:53:27 Periscope shot: large merchant ship broken in half, sinking. 11:54:26 Various circular water-tight doors being secured in sub. 11:54:33 Men at controls, depth indicator; CU hand turning in circle toward greater depth. 11:54:48 Man wearing earphone SONAR shouting into sound phone; others behind at controls. 11:55:47 About a dozen men sitting in berths, listening to explosions of depth charge. WWII; WW2; 1940s;