that is great K, good to know, it is exciting to see those pics. Quite a feeling to see them in real life.
I-10 Departing Port
smoke break
bridge crew at sea stations
Sea Bridge helsman station
View Below
Chow Time....
Officers's Mess has china and tableclothes....
Navigation old style....shooting with the sextant...
Charting...from narrator they have reached Afrika, and are working the sea lanes from the Suez Canal
the Gauges
No. 3 shows sack time IJN style, amazingly little space! Battle Stations alert (they use a bell alarum plus loudspeaker), crew manning stations for dive, and actual footage of bow going under, and great view of diving planes and the planesmen at their stations! Periscope in action, view thru it, command bridge, and sufacing with an underwater cam catching the view from the bow. Deck gun crew manning gun and in action. Crew daily routine, Crew playing Go ! (looks like a close game
) And officers playing cards.
Highlight of No. 4 so far....narrator saying "Bon Appetit!" and shot of crew picking up fish from the foredeck for dinner
And close up of flying fish! Vitamins at dinner! Ships doc doing his work. Note: officers have special strip on shirt. ah ha! they used special dilating eye drops for night vision!
Very moving view of Captain coming on the bridge stopping to bow to Emperor's shrine, great series of him climbing up to the top of the conning tower, gives details of those spaces. Torpedo firing proceedure, timed. Hand signal passing.
No. 5 Shipboard routine, taking on a passenger for interrogation... stations for systems underway view...
at stations undeway
on the scope
sinking Allied ship (merchant) at night with deck gun, survivors taken on board, !!!!
Pre action Officers Conference
