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- Nice shooting, Pat.

- Thank you, sir.

Give me a hand here.

That Japanese flyboy

never would have died happy

unless he got the full word out on us.

We're too close to our destination

to chance discovery by a destroyer now.

We gotta move out of here

and move out fast.

- Lieutenant?

- Yes, sir.

- How did you make out below?

- I finished.

Will those patches hold?

You're gonna worry yourself

into an early grave, Doherty.

Captain to engine room. All ahead full.

Lookouts, keep your eyes open.

Contact.

Range 1, 5000. Must be a ship.

Contact, Captain.

Range 1, 5000.

High speeds cruise, Captain. Bearing 2-5-9.

Sounds like a destroyer. Closing in fast.

Clear the deck! Clear the bridge!

Clear the bridge!

- Come on! Come on!

- Guide the boat.

Take her down fast, catch her at 60 feet.

Dive! Dive! Dive!

- Keep the squawk box open.

- Aye, aye, sir.

Hold her at 60 feet.

Hold her at 60 feet.

- Left full rudder.

- Left full rudder. Aye, sir.

- Rudder is left full, sir.

- Very well.

Keep the periscope up.

Keep periscope up.

- What's your bearing mark?

- Twenty-two.

Range mark?

When we should run, we sit.

Ten thousand.

When we should sit, what do we do, huh?

We play tag.

Gruber, you writing again?

I was only writing my girl how lousy I feel.

Yeah, pretty good.

What are you laughing at? You doing

all right with that eating routine, too.

Yeah, I don't do bad.

Adams, drain all the diesel oil

into the bilges.

Stand by to pump it overboard

when I give you the word.

Pump bilges?

- You heard right, Mr. Adams.

- Aye, aye, sir.

- Rudder at midships.

- Rudder at midship, aye, sir.

- Rudder is midship, sir.

- Very well...

Adams, pump the bilges.

It's heading right for our periscope.

That's it. Keep coming at us, little man.

Come on. Keep coming. Don't lose us.

Have Mr. Adams keep pouring out that oil.

- Tell him, keep pumping it out.

- Aye, aye, sir.

Mr. Adams, keep pumping bilges.

We're doing great, we are.

Gushing oil like we owned all of Texas.

What are you worrying about?

Maybe we'll wind up millionaires.

Yeah, rich, dead millionaires.

Make ready all tubes. Set depth eight feet.

Stand by to fire a spread

of three torpedoes.

What did I tell you, fellows?

Nothing to worry about.

Okay, girls, stand by on tubes.

On the double.

- Rig for depth charge attack.

- Aye, aye, sir.

Rig for depth charge attack.

Down scope.

- Right full rudder.

- Right full rudder.

- Secure the bilge pumps.

- Aye, aye, sir.

Secure the bilge pumps.

Rudder is right full, sir.

Call the torpedo room,

fire false target shell.

What's a false target shell?

An explosion of bubbles.

Sends out an echo to where he's pinging.

He'll pick it up and think it's us.

We hope.

Lowest creeping speed,

rig for silent running.

Aye, aye, sir.

Maneuvering room,

make slowest creeping speed.

Rig for silent running.

Rig for silent running.

Rig for silent running.

- All ahead full.

- All ahead full.

Answers up. All ahead full, sir.

Any of you guys know how to pray,

do it now.

- Left full rudder.

- Left full rudder.

Rudder is left full, sir.

Forward tubes report ready, sir.

Depth set eight feet.

Very well. Up scope.

Bearing mark 3-4-0.

Range mark, 300 yards.

She's doing about 25 knots. Down scope.

- Gesundheit, Mr. Malone.

- Thank you, sir.

Steady as you go, Dalton.

Steady as you go.

Steady as she goes, sir.

Fire at any time, Captain.

Thanks, Mr. Malone.

Up scope.

Down scope.

Fire one.

Number one torpedo, fired electrically.

Fire two.

Number two torpedo, fired electrically.

Fire three.

Number three, fired electrically.

All torpedoes fired, sir.

All torpedoes running

hot, straight and normal.

Eight seconds, seven seconds...

Two seconds, one second, zero.

First one should be there, Captain.

Number one still running

hot, straight and normal.

- Sound fading.

- We've missed.

Three seconds, two seconds,

one second, zero.

- Number two fading, sir.

- We've missed.

Right full rudder. All ahead flank.

Right full rudder. All ahead flank.

Sound, what do you hear?

We're too close to make it out, sir.

Its screws have stopped.

- Is he on top of us?

- No, sir, just abeam now.

All ahead one third. Up scope.

All ahead one-third.

- She's hit.

- Yeah!

That's right! I knew she'd change our luck.

Hey there, laughing boy, what do you

think about the skipper now, huh?

You celebrate if you want to, I'm not.

We're still a long way from home.

What are you worried about?

We got food, ain't we?

We got lots of food.

- Hi.

- Lieutenant.

- Hi, Lieutenant.

- Hi.

What you got there, Shelton,

Milkman's Matinee?

Tokyo Rose. She kind of gets you

right here, doesn't she?

Yeah, she does.

Little Fox schedule coming in.

"Promotions. All Navy.

"All ensigns, 25,000 to 30,000 to JG."

Well, what do you know? 26.

That ALNAV caught Mr. Malone.

Now, that's one promotion

that I can approve of.

It's gonna be good news to Pat.

Sure is.

Now he's got nothing to worry about.

Yeah, well, I don't know.

A few promotions in Pearl

he's a little worried about.

What?

Nothing. Forget it.

Lieutenant Malone.

As you were, men.

Take it easy, Willie.

Attention.

- Hey!

- Lieutenant Malone!

Lieutenant Malone!

Thanks, Weary.

Well, say something.

Well, there's not much I can say,

but I can tell you guys

that I've waited for this for a long time.

You've made me feel good. Real good.

Congratulations.

Hey, Lieutenant. Come on. Cut the cake.

Lieutenant, will you autograph this?

I wrote my girl in Mission all about you.

- Yeah, sure. Here, give me that pen.

- Come on, Lieutenant.

- When you gonna cut that cake?

- I'm happy.

I have an extra pair of bars, Lieutenant.

I wish you'd use them.

Thanks, Lieutenant.

Say, can I talk to you a minute?

- Sure.

- When you gonna cut the cake?

Look, you guys cut the cake,

and I'll be right with you. Save me a piece.

Now that we're brother Lieutenants,

well, we share the same rank and all,

we shouldn't have any secrets

from each other, should we?

No.

Well, you know what I mean.

Well, remember what we were

talking about the day you came aboard?

- Yeah.

- Well...

Well, Lieutenant Malone, if I told you

the truth, you wouldn't believe it.

Come on, test me.

No.

Escape hatch check out okay, Lieutenant?

Yeah, it's fine, Chief.

Lung?

- Lung okay.

- Watch?

Okay.

Camera?

Camera okay.

Survival kit?

Survival kit okay.

- Rig for silent running.

- Aye, aye, sir.

Rig for silent running.

Rig for silent running.

Down scope.

- Sonar, what do you hear?

- Nothing, sir.

- All ahead creeping speed.

- Aye, aye, sir.

Maneuvering room,

all ahead creeping speed.

All ahead creeping speed.

This is the Captain.

There's been a change in plans.

We are now entering the lagoon.

So the ice is melted.

What did you say?

There is an enemy ship directly above us.

I didn't say anything.

I want absolute silence in the boat.

Yeah, like a morgue.

Reef 10 degrees on starboard bow, sir.

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