Run Silent Run Deep Page #3

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to me, not the crew. Understand?

And that goes for your opinions, too.

Maybe we'd better break this up.

It's getting late.

Shut up.

(Jim) Battle stations manned.

Standing by for drill.

Lookouts, below!

Clear the bridge!

(klaxon)

Dive! Dive!

(tapping)

Surface! Surface!

(klaxon)

- Someone up topside, sir!

- All stop!

- All stop, sir.

- Emergency! Surface!

Open up!

- Are you all right?

- I'm all right, sir. I'm OK.

Who gave you permission

to dump the garbage?

- Mr Cartwright, sir.

- I thought he'd asked the OD.

- I was on the bridge. I...

- Get below.

Yes, sir.

Only the captain gives permission

to dump the trash.

Instead of losing time on this drill,

we almost lose a man!

Stand by to dive!

- Check the watch, Mr Kohler.

- Aye aye, sir.

Mr Bledsoe.

Yes, sir?

- Have you been with this boat long?

- Over a year, sir.

And is this the kind of cooperation

you usually get?

No, sir.

A man could've been killed today.

The responsibility is yours.

You're in charge of the drills.

I have no excuses. But under the

circumstances, the crew did their best.

- What circumstances?

- Don't press it.

I want an answer.

It's one thing to drill a crew.

But when you duck a Jap sub...

...they wonder why they should care when

the Captain has no stomach for attacking.

Does he want obedience, efficiency...

...or the best-drilled cowards in the Navy?

Mr Bledsoe, tell them I'm doubling

the drills, starting tomorrow.

Yes, sir.

You might as well know, sir.

I don't believe it.

Believe what?

That you ran away from that sub

from cowardice.

I know what ya mean, but what's the cook

supposed to do - eat the garbage?

- We haven't had a minute...

- Hey! Hey, Vince.

(radar bleeps)

SJ contact, SJ contact!

Bearing 3-3-0, range 15 miles.

- A big one, huh?

- It's not a fishing boat, friend.

(rapid bleeps)

Picking up two of them now, sir.

Range closing.

Enemy on southerly course.

Very well.

Right full rudder,

come right to course 3-3-0.

Right full rudder, sir,

coming right to 3-3-0.

- Very well.

- Looks like he's going to go in.

Sightseeing, Pat. Just sightseeing.

I can see them now.

Lead ship, possible Momo destroyer.

Trailing ship, a large tanker.

We'll wait until the destroyer passes,

then take on the tanker.

Shifting to TBT. Bearing coming down.

(buzzer)

Bearing 0-2-0.

Set, sir.

Right full rudder,

come right to course 0-3-0.

Open outer doors on tubes 1 and 2.

- Open outer doors on tubes 1 and 2.

- Open outer doors on 1 and 2.

Angle on the bow now. Starboard 70.

Torpedo spread - one right, one left.

Solution checking. Everything's set, sir.

Destroyer's well clear now.

Tanker range 3-2-0-0.

- All ready to fire, sir.

- Very well. Stand by, tube 1.

- Stand by, tube 1.

- Stand by, tube 1.

- What's the torpedo run?

- 2500 yards, sir.

- Commence firing.

- Fire 1.

- Fire 1.

- Fire 1.

- 1 fired, sir.

- Stand by, 2.

- Spread set.

- Fire 2.

- Fire 2.

- Fire 2.

- 2 fired.

- No.1 running hot and straight, sir.

(speaking in Japanese)

(alarm)

Destroyer's angle on the bow

now zero. Bearing?

(buzzer)

- Bearing 0-4-5.

- He's heading right at us.

Keep the sound down.

We'll have orders to go deep.

Aye aye, sir.

If you've had any questions about

the drills, you'll have 'em answered now.

We're taking on the Momo.

Right standard rudder,

come right to course 0-4-5.

- Coming right to 0-4-5.

- Very well.

Open outer doors on tubes 3 and 4.

- Open doors on tubes 3 and 4.

- Open doors on tubes 3 and 4.

Range to destroyer: 2,000.

Bearing steady.

Closing in fast. Coming head on.

At range 1-5-0-0, we'll crash-dive.

At 50 feet, we'll give her two fish.

Down the throat? It's a bow shot.

Range 1,800.

Lookouts, below!

- Stand by to dive.

- Stand by to dive.

- Stand by to dive.

- Clear the bridge!

(klaxon)

Dive! Dive!

- Bearing.

- Mark:
0-4-4.

- Set.

- Depth:
34 feet.

- 10-degree angle.

- 39 feet.

Level off.

- 44 feet.

- Steady on course, Captain.

- Stand by on tube 3.

- Stand by on 3.

- Levelled off at 50, Captain!

- Fire 3.

Fire 3.

- Fire 4.

- Fire 4.

- 4 fired, sir.

- Stand by to take her down fast.

- Stand by to take her down fast!

- Aye aye, sir. Standing by.

- Captain, we got 'im!

- In 32 seconds!

Left full rudder, all ahead one third.

Very well. Now hear this.

Captain speaking.

You just gave a Jap tin can the deep six

with a bow shot in 32 seconds.

This boat is ready for anything.

Let's keep it that way.

Drills - no more than usual tomorrow.

Mr Bledsoe, take the conn

and get us back on course.

Aye aye, sir.

- Boy, that skipper!

- He knocks 'em down!

Observation.

(band music on radio)

Hey, come here, you guys. Listen to this.

"Dear Commander,

Japanese Imperial Fleet...

...be it hereby known

that on July 31st 1943...

...the USS Nerka, under the command

of Captain PJ Richardson...

...sunk a Japanese destroyer."

(cheering)

"One down, 20 fish to go."

Signed, Kraut Mueller.

How about that? We've been

drilling for a bow shot all the time.

- Hey, Ruby, you were up there.

- Right on the pickle, dear friend.

That tin can zigs right into us.

I tell ya, I was shaking!

- What did the old man do?

- Calm, you know. No excitement.

Orders two fish right down the throat!

Just like you'd order ham and eggs!

If we'd missed, we wouldn't have lived

long enough to get into Area 7!

- We won't live long enough to get out!

- If, if, if! Go back to Sears Roebuck!

Forgive me if I interrupt the music.

You are listening to the voice

you call Tokyo Rose...

... speaking to you from the heart

of the Japanese empire...

... telling you in your own language

of a war you cannot win.

It has been substantiated that we have

destroyed 16 enemy ships this month.

Oh, come on, Rosie, get up to date!

You're missing one Jap tin can!

Jessie! Jessie, dear friend!

We've decided to be big about it.

We're not gonna hold you responsible

for Area 7 any longer.

- We'll take back the money.

- Gosh!

Well, that's nice of you fellas...

...but my conscience hurt me so much,

I threw it overboard.

- Not now, Kohler.

- Don't shut me up again, Lieutenant.

I've seen all kinds of captains.

We've seen 'em together.

But I never saw one

run away from a Jap sub...

...then take on a destroyer with a shot

I didn't even know was in the book.

There has to be a reason.

That bow shot didn't just happen.

The drills were planned for it.

The whole thing was...

(door closes)

I never heard of a bow shot

being set up except in desperation.

It's all like some experiment.

Suppose a bow shot was the only way

he thought he could get an Akikaze.

An Akikaze isn't a Momo.

There's a helluva difference.

This Akikaze's in the Bungo Straits.

But that's impossible!

The orders say to avoid it!

I know.

Look, I know how you feel about him

taking the boat and all.

But don't you think

you're working at it overtime, sir?

We'll be hitting Area 7 tomorrow morning.

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