Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Friday, October 9, 2009

Victory at Sea

Richard Rogers classic masterpiece was the musical score for the first, great television documentary: Victory at Sea.

Pearl Harbor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmxmhxtckFQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnBHdjIKwyA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Qfw5W_sKk

Midway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XxXkeO96bw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys_Kz086Aks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5il0_Y4F36E

The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEXo5HA88RQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSNwNLdDLE

U.S. Marines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nY9ayN2KmY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2R8BAmOcdc

MacArthur Returns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJd071BcLVw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_tukYwPieQ

The Battle for Leyte Gulf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXGh8utVdRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDtJFc7ywN8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsPEZLyNpWg

Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle ever fought on planet earth. For four years after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy had chased the Imperial Japanese Navy across the Pacific Ocean and finally cornered them in the Philippines at Leyte Gulf. A friend of mine appears in this episode, as his ship, the "Jeep carrier" U.S.S. Gambier Bay http://www.ussgambierbay-vc10.com/ was sunk by the gigantic Japanese battleship Yamato with it's 18 inch guns. It was the second ship that was sunk from under him during the war...