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The Silent Service was a documentary style anthology series about the U.S. Navy's submarine fleet and their missions during World War II and the Korean War created by Rear Admiral Thomas M. Dykers, who retired from the Navy in the late 1940s. Every episode was based on real historical events, with the realism of the show reinforced by the use of actual combat footage from the archives of the United States Navy. This particular episode titled “The Eyes of the Seawolf” is episode 22 from season 1 of the show, which aired Thursday, August 29th, 1957.
Directed by Sobey Martin and written by Milton Geiger, “The Eyes of the Seawolf” features a cast of actors which includes Mort Mills, Carl Betz, Arthur Batanides, Wally Richard, Duane Grey, William Kendis, Frank Savage, Martin Smith, and Leonard Nimoy. Together, this crew of actors bring to life the story of a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, the USS Seawolf (SS-197), during two of its war patrols. The USS Seawolf helped to solve one of the United States’ most urgent and mystifying problems at sea during World War II - the issue of malfunctioning torpedo firings, which plagued the U.S. Navy during the first year of the war, and was caused by the Mark 14 torpedo. The Mark 14 torpedo was the U.S. Navy's standard submarine-launched anti-ship torpedo of World War II. This weapon was plagued with many problems which crippled its performance early in the war.
Following an introduction by Rear Admiral Thomas M. Dykers (0:36), the episode opens to footage of Skipper Lieutenant Commander Fred Warder, Executive Officer Lieutenant William Deragon, and other crew listening to “Tokyo Rose” (Iva Toguri, WWII propaganda broadcasts) describing a confrontation between the submarine and Japanese convoys off of landings near Bali (1:08). USS Seawolf receives order to patrol Java Sea-Lombok Strait area off coast of Christmas Island in hopes of intercepting enemy convoy (3:16). Crew members Orv Loesch and Tom Jessup have conversation late at night while sleeping on ship bunkers(3:37). USS Seawolf makes contact with enemy convoy and goes into action; After firing stern tubes at freighter, sub forced to submerge to evade depth charges from an escorting destroyer (5:10). Seawolf ends patrol of Christmas Island, returns to Fremantle, Australia (7:05). U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance, Southwest Pacific Area Office: Skipper Warder complains that Mark 14 torpedo is flawed and compromises safety of crew on board (7:10). Skipper Warder addresses crew from deck of USS Seawolf before departing on 7th patrol (9:27). 2 November 1942: USS Seawolf patrolling Mindanao, Philippines; Skipper Warder wants to find target that can prove something is wrong with magnetic explodes; USS Seawolf heads towards Talomo Bay in search of target to prove hypothesis (10:54). 3 November 1942: USS Seawolf submerges 12 miles from Talomo Harbor, enemy target spotted through periscope, torpedo launched but misses and fires on beach instead; Orv Loesch offers to attach his camera to periscope to provide photographic evidence of torpedo malfunctions (14:43). Second firing commences, Loesch’s camera placed to periscope eyepiece in hopes of capturing malfunction but the torpedo goes off prematurely and third firing did not go off at all (18:15). Fourth firing also a dud, USS Seawolf comes under strong counter attack by Japanese jets (19:43). USS Seawolf reloads, shoots from point-blank range, successfully hits enemy ship Sagami Maru (19:28). Skipper Fred Warder, Executive Officer Lieutenant William Deragon call Orv Loesch into captain quarters to thank him for camera which caught good images of malfunctioning torpedoes (20:22). Rear Admiral Thomas M. Dykers closing words and interview with Rear Adm. Fred Warder (24:04).
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