Navy Videos:
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Here are some links to “vintage” Navy Training films or clips related to Navy subjects submitted by Herb Mesler (RMC). I think they will bring a smile to your face. 
* Navy V-1 Officer pilot recruitment film. This one is a recruitment film to get officers into the V-1 pilot training program in WWII. Great shots of old biplanes and PB-Y’s. Funky organ music.
* 1968 fire on the USS Forrestal This is a scary one. The 1968 fire on the carrier USS Forrestal. If you remember your fire fighting school experience you will know why you needed it. This one is spooky and be glad you never had a fire at sea.
* Don\’t Kill your friends, Part This one’s a Navy Training Film called “Don’t Kill Your Friends.” It a Training Film for pilots in WWII about being safe while flying. It has of the old “East Side Gang” actor Huntz Hall as Ensign Dilbert.
* Don\’t Kill your friends, Part 2, WWII training film Part 2 of “Don’t Kill Your Friends” from WWII
* Inspecting Living & Working spaces for comfort This is a training film about health inspecting Living & Working Spaces in 1958
* A 1936 film about the Great Fleet visiiting Hawaii This is a 1936 film about the Great Fleet visiting Hawaii. Sailor’s on liberty, etc.
* This is a Navy Training film starring Gene Kelly called “Combat Fatigue Irritability.” Interesting to see how some of the stars helped the war effort.
* Here are a couple more I’ve found on the web.
* The New Navy Boot Camp for the 21st Century This is Part 1 of the New Boot Camp, for the 21st century. You’re going to love this. See how it stacks up with your experience.
* New Navy Boot Camp, for 21st century, Part 2 This is Part 2, pay attention to the weapons training, fire fighting, etc. Interesting.
* I’ve mentioned a book about Task Force “Taffy 3″ at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Some small jeep carriers, destroyers and destroyer escorts are the only think that stood between the Japanese Center Force and the Americans landing on Leyte. It was truly a David and Goliath situation, yet the Americans prevailed. Here is a History Channel show about it on You Tube in six parts. Enjoy.
The Death of the Japanese Navy: Taffy 3, Part 1 Start here at Part 1 of 5 parts.
The Death of Japanese Navy, Taffy 3, Part 2 Another video clip. Part 2
The Death of the Japanese Navy, Taffy 3, Part 3 Part 3, Getting better all the time.
The Death of the Japanese Navy, Taffy 3, Part 4 Part 4 tells about the USS Roberts (DE413).
The Death of the Japanese Navy, Taffy 3, Part 5 David actually beats Goliath. Part 5
* Here’s one about how we should treat our veteran brothers when they came home from WWII: The Voyage to Recovery
* I like this one. It’s about a DD sailor who was an artist and sketched life aboard his “Tin Can” during WWII. This is a tribute from his grandson. Tin Can Sketch Book
* Let’s change gears. Here’s a link to a video about the rescue of Capt. Phillips from the Somalia pirates by Navy Seals submitted by Herb Mesler. Somalia Pirates
* Here’s a link to the Navy Color Guard drill team. Go Navy! http://www.whc.net/rjones/USN/USN_team.html
* How about a Memorial Day Tribute to our WWII servicemen/women and their families by Richard Sullivan. http://vimeo.com/12137364 Don’t forget to look around this fellow’s site. He has some other interesting videos about VJ day in Hawaii. Thanks to Herb Mesler for passing this along.
* Ken Sayers passed this video link along. It’s a 360 degree tour of the historic WWII Fleet Sub, Pampanito (SS 383), now located in San Francisco and open to the public. If you’ve not seen the inside of our old fleet boats, you will think the DE’s were rather large. He laments that it’s a shame that something like this wasn’t done for a DE, since they were the largest single class of surface ships in WWII. Here the link to the sub.
http://www.nonplused.org/panos/uss_pampanito/index.html
* This is a silent film from 1915 showing early submarines, some old dreadnoughts, loading 14″ shells, and sailors splicing rope. Great stuff:
http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/u-s-navy-documentary-1915