WORLD WAR II U.S. COAST GUARD CONVOY OPERATIONS FILM "TASK FORCE" BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC 72024
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- Released in 1944 by Warner Brothers in cooperation with the U.S. Coast Guard, "Task Force" is a Technicolor short film narrated by Jackson Beck. The film focuses around Coast Guard "Task Force" duty. Besides operational glimpses, the viewer is treated to a snapshot of the life of a Coast Guardsman on and off duty. While the film contains much documentary-style footage, some sections of the film are re-enactments and the scenario presented (in which the USCG battles a German U-boat and then lands troops on a Pacific Island) seems somewhat fanciful.
A review of the film when it was released stated that the movie "acquaints the public with the very important role being played by the fourth of Uncle Sam's services. It is the story of an American invasion fleet going into action on an unnamed battle front. The first attack comes after the Coast Guard cutters have sighted the enemy. All hands are ordered to battle stations. The U-boats position is fixed, depth bombs are loosened, and the submarine surfaces, the big guns go into action and the U-boat sinks. Later the Navy sends out reconnaissance planes to meet twenty on-coming enemy aircraft. Now the ack-ack of the cutter roars defiance. The destination is reached and the Navy's big guns shell the enemy's fortifications through the day and through the night. Then comes the landing of the troops…"
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the U.S. military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission (with jurisdiction in both domestic and international waters) and a federal regulatory agency mission as part of its mission set. It operates under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during peacetime, and can be transferred to the U.S. Department of the Navy by the U.S. President at any time, or by the U.S. Congress during times of war. To date, this has happened twice, in 1917 and 1941, during World War I and World War II, respectively
Created by Congress on 4 August 1790 at the request of Alexander Hamilton as the "Revenue Marine", it is the oldest continuous seagoing service of the United States.[Note 2] As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton headed the Revenue Marine, whose original purpose was that of a collector of customs duties in the nation's seaports. By the 1860s the service was known as the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service and the term Revenue Marine gradually fell into disuse.
The modern Coast Guard was formed from the merger of the Revenue Cutter Service and the U.S. Life-Saving Service on 28 January 1915, as an organization under the U.S. Department of the Treasury. As one of the country's five armed services, the Coast Guard has been involved in every U.S. war from 1790 up to the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan. As of 2012 the Coast Guard had approximately 42,000 men and women on active duty, 7,900 reservists, 32,000 auxiliarists, and 8,700 full-time civilian employees. In terms of size, the U.S. Coast Guard by itself is the world's 12th largest naval force.
Jackson Beck (July 23, 1912 - July 28, 2004) was an American actor best known as the announcer on radio's The Adventures of Superman and the voice of Bluto in the Famous era Popeye theatrical shorts.
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Made during WWII, this color film shows the men of the Coast Guard in operation in the Atlantic. Guardsmen man and command various support vessels and transports. Their cutters serve as Navy warships. Anti-submarine patrol is an important duty, and we see PBY flying boats, cutters and destroyers fending off enemy subs. As a seaborne invasion nears, USCG personnel and the men of the Merchant Marine rush men and supplies to the beach in LCIs and LSTs. The film clearly demonstrates the enormous role played by the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine in World War II. Also featured in this film is beautiful color footage of aircraft carrier operations.
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Those poor musicians who made dramatic music for the war effort and our boys in blue. God bless them, they did their part, too.
This is not the battle of the Atlantic. It's in the Pacific Theater.
Right. What would the Coast Guard know about a movie they participated in and acted as technical advisors? The Treasury class cutters never did escort duty in the Pacific. They were part of the "Bloody Winter" of 1942-43 during the North Atlantic convoy runs. The USCGC Hamilton was the only Treasury class cutter to be lost in the war, torpedoed off Iceland in 1942 by a German sub. This happened during one of those North Atlantic escorts. The only cutter to spend most her WWII career in the Pacific was USCGC Taney, and that wasn't generally as a convoy escort.
Just in case you still think you're right, go to bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/12083308/task_force_movie_news/ and let me know of you see "Pacific" anywhere in the story.
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I don't know why this is so common in WWII films, but bombs really don't make that whistling noise. Yout first clue a bomb has been dropped is when it explodes.
The US always had air superiority over its invasions, so the landing forces never heard a Japanese bomb to know if it whistled or not. Just to clarify, the bomb design dictates whether or not it would have a whistling sound. The stabilizing fins can make noise as the air passes across its leading edge if it is shaped like a whistle. Think about a pipe organ with a fluted edge at the base and an open end at the top. The air passes through creating an audible note. To the listener on the ground the pitch would increase as it nears. The recordings we hear on video have a Doppler effect of the bomb moving away from the recording device. Many types of bombs had a propeller fuzes, but these were small and probably didn't create a significant audible hiss (I suppose if the receiver heard it, then they didn't live to tell about it). High velocity artillery and naval gunnery shells would also make cracking noises as they displaced air on the way to the target. Depending on the speed and rotation, the receiver would hear a woooooooooosh-Boom! or woosh-woosh-woosh-woosh-Boom! As technology became more lethal and advanced, any projectile moving faster than the speed of sound would be seen, and not heard.
@@pizzafrenzyman That's a long post to show you have no idea what you're talking about. First, we didn't have to transport troops across the Atlantic to land on a Japanese held island. The operation shown was either North Africa or Sicily. Secondly, ask the Marines who landed at Guadalcanal about our air superiority. Ask the Marines and Army about air superiority and the lack of Japanese bombs in the New Guinea and Solomons campaigns. Lastly, unless a bomb has a whistling device attached to it, as the Italians did in the Ethiopian invasion, bombs don't make whistling noises.
@@sarjim4381 Sounds like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. I thought our conversation was about whistling bombs, but OK, let's pivot.
Here is what we see: At 8:03 you will see a Japanese submarine. At 8:37 you will see a German U-Boat, and unknown Sub at 8:49 (keep in mind the video references "Sub" and "Submarine" not "U-Boat" as in the video description). 11:00 we see a map, location is anybody's guess. 11:23 we see an Armor Division patch, which is definitely Europe/Africa. At 11:31 we see 3rd Infantry which implies North Africa or Sicily. You will see a fast fleet carrier at 12:02. This footage is from the Pacific since the carrier is not the Ranger or Wasp. Shortly after that we see carrier aircraft with late 1942 markings, could be anywhere. 14:32 Jungle camo gear - Pacific bound. 14:53 training for a landing. 16:55 not likely to be anywhere in the Pacific for the time frame of the video. To summarize this movie is a conglomeration of stock footage from all theaters, not necessarily Pacific, Europe, or Africa. I saw the Jap sub and the fast fleet carrier, and that set my initial viewpoint.
Air superiority: The marines landed on Guadalcanal unmolested by Japanese air attack. The ships supporting the landing were attacked, but not the forces on the beach as we see in the video. The nearest operational Japanese airbases were on Bougainville (ignoring the seaplane bases at Tulagi and Rekata bay), too far away to impact the landings on Day 1. By the time MacArthur started retaking New Guinea, he had air superiority for his sea landings. Ditto for the South Pacific forces moving up the Solomon's chain. Both utilized land based air to soften Japanese airdromes that could mount counter attacks, then land based fighters would fly cover over the beaches. Can you site one example anywhere when an opposing bomb dropped by air landed on a US landing force on the beach?
Whistling bombs: i.stack.imgur.com/FOOuD.png Please note part 15. It is in the shape of a whistle or pipe organ. As air passes through the fin, it will sing a note. I stand by my original comments, just re-read it.
So you accuse me of not knowing what I'm talking about, but it seems that you're short on bomb whistling research.
Oh no, they don't whistle. I'm scarred for life, all these years believing a lie.
@@pizzafrenzyman A few years late, but, Japanese submarines were known to operate in the Atlantic. They did not attack convoys though as they were used to smuggle gold and supplies between Germany and Japan.