[Speaking German]
[Explosion]
[Explosions In Distance At Intervals]
[Explosions Grow Louder]
[Explosion]
[Panting]
[Coughing]
[Beeping]
## [Big Band]
## [Big Band Continues]
There he is. Hey, Andy! Where you been? It's an all-hands function.
Come here. I want you to meet Joanie. Joanie, this is Andy Tyler.
Hello. My best friend. We went to Annapolis together.
Nice to meet you. Hey, I got you one of Larson's stogies.
To our navy's next sub skipper. Thank you.
Lieutenant! Gonna hoist up a few beers with the enlisted boys later?
You got it, Griggs. All right.
Mr. Tyler! Mr. Tyler! Hmm?
My mom is here visiting. Can I bring her over to meet you?
Sure thing, Trigger. That's the lieutenant I was talking about.
Lieutenant Tyler!
Hello there, Prudence, Louise. Mrs. Dahlgren, Captain.
Where's your date, Andy? It's not like you to arrive stag.
I'm afraid I couldn't get one on such short notice, ma'am.
Captain, could I have a word with you?
Certainly. Darling, will you excuse us? Okay.
Be right back.
## [Stops] [Applause]
I didn't get my boat.
I know.
With all due respect, sir, there's only one way that could've happened,
and that's if you withheld your recommendation.
That's right. I just don't think you're ready.
What do you mean, I'm not ready?
Sir, I have worked my tail off on the S-33. I'm qualified in every area and then some.
No executive officer has higher marks than I do. Andy!
You're just not ready to take on a command of your own.
Now I've made my decision. It's done.
[Man] Mr. Tyler. How you doing, sir?
Having a good time? Hell, yeah, Chief.
How about you? I'm looking forward to getting underway.
I'm a sea dog. Need some salt, sir.
He torpedoed me, Chief.
Nine months aboard the S-33,
doing the best job I know how.
Doing everything once and then doing it again,
just to make sure I didn't miss anything the first time.
You'll get your chance, sir. There's other commands in the navy.
- You knew? - [Sighing]
Didn't warn me.
Ain't my place, sir. [Whistle Blowing]
[Man] Club's secured! Time to go!
[Whistle Blowing] [Crowd Chattering, Music Stops]
Let's go. Get out. Everyone out.
Come on, let's go.
What's the meaning of this, Sergeant?
You the senior man? That's right. I'm the X.O. Of the S-33.
These men have a 48-hour liberty pass.
No, sir, not no more.
[Man On P.A., Indistinct]
What the hell are those yardbirds doing to my boat?
Looks like a goddamn Nazi submarine.
Hey, Andy. This is a fine navy day.
[Man Over P.A., Indistinct]
They wouldn't give me five minutes to consummate my marriage. Five minutes!
What's going on here? Hell if I know. Put your cover on.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Tyler, call the crew to quarters. Aye, Captain.
Quarters! Everybody fall in! Let's get in formation now!
Let's go! Now! Formation!
[Man On P.A.] Prepare crew three. Muster with First Lieutenant.
Captain Dahlgren, all crew members present and accounted for, sir!
Very well. At ease.
I'm sorry your liberty's been cut short, but our schedule's changed.
We have two hours to get stowed for sea and set the maneuvering watch.
Mr. Larson, have your torpedo men load the tubes with their four best fish.
Mr. Emmett, warm up the diesels and line up a battery charge.
Mr. Tyler, we have dry stores, ordnance and perishables to get belowdecks.
Gentlemen, it's our turn. That's all.
Attention!
Aye, Captain.
Crew dismissed! You heard the man! Stores load!
You got six seconds to get on your boondockers and dungarees and turn to!
Mr. Tyler, is this for real, or is it a drill?
"It's our turn"... what does that mean?
I thought we had a two-day liberty pass. What's going on?
I don't know, but I'm gonna find out. Get your jobs done now.
[Man On P.A.] All off-going duty officers, report to the dock.
Captain Dahlgren, could you fill me in on what's going on, sir?
We're obviously not going to the Caribbean Station.
No, we're not. We're going on a special op.
You'll be briefed with Mr. Emmett and Mr. Larson once we get underway.
Aye, sir. Andy, listen.
I'm gonna need the very best from you on this run,
regardless of any differences you may have with me.
Are we clear on that?
Yes, sir. Good.
Now go find Radioman Wentz and quietly escort him to the materiel office.
[Knocking]
Mr. Tyler. How are you, son?
I'm fine, Admiral Duke. What brings you up here?
He does. That's Lieutenant Hirsch.
He's gonna be riding your boat.
You're not working for Sublant on this run. Mr. Hirsch has operational control.
He's the boss. Anything he wants, he gets.
[Hirsch Speaking On Phone]
Fine.
Is this him?
[Speaking German]
Yes, sir.
He'll do. Thank you, Wentz. That's all for now.
Lieutenant, prepare the boat to get underway. Aye, sir. Admiral.
Mr. Tyler, please,
don't tell the other guys I'm half German.
They'll hate me.
Yeah, sure thing, Wentz.
[Man On P.A.] Prepare crew three. Muster with First Lieutenant.
Duty Officer Lane to the paint shop.
Duty Officer to the paint shop.
You all right, Mr. Tyler?
Tiptop, Eddie. Tiptop.
Wanna thank you for that liberty pass.
My girl thanks you too.
You're a good man, Mr. Tyler.
Heart's in the right place.
Just need to give it some time.
Yeah, I heard about what happened to you.
That's one of the advantages of bein' seen and... not bein' seen.
You'd be surprised some of the shit we mess-doers hear.
[Clattering] Boy, don't go droppin' my eggs.
Damn. Excuse me, Mr. Tyler.
Look, all you gotta do is pick 'em up with both hands, boy, both hands!
Tyler!
When the hell were you gonna tell me? I hear this from the chief.
What do you want me to say? He shit-canned me.
Now you're gonna transfer to another boat.
Excuse me. Can either one of you two tell me where I can find the exec of this thing?
Yeah, that's me, mac. Move your truck. We'll unload shortly.
You'll unload it now. Here's the manifest.
Get those crates belowdecks. Who the hell are you?
Marine Major Coonan, Office of Naval Intelligence. I'm goin' to sea with you boys.
That's my luggage. You got a problem, talk to Mr. Hirsch.
Clear! Cast off all lines forward!
Cast off forward! Take in all lines aft.
Cast off aft!
[Dahlgren] Rudder amidships, all ahead one-third.
All ahead one-third!
Bridge hatch shut.
Engine room, secure the diesels. Shift propulsion to the battery.
Engine room, secure diesels, shift propulsion to the battery.
Main induction indicates shut. Aye.
Green board, Skipper. Very well.
Passing the 100-fathom curve. On course, on time, sir.
Engine room reports secured diesels, propulsion switched to battery.
Very well. All ahead two-thirds. All ahead two-thirds, aye.
Mr. Emmett, take her down. Make her depth 1-5-0 feet, ten degree down bubble.
One-five-zero feet, ten degree down bubble. Aye, sir.
Chief of the watch, sound the dive alarm. Pass the word to 1 MC.
Open the main ballast tank vents. Aye, sir, passing the word.
[Man Chattering]
Dive, dive, dive.
Sir, main ballast tank vents indicate open.
Aye. Both planes dive, 15 degrees. Both planes dive, 15 degrees.
All clear!
Decks awash. Decks awash. Aye, sir.
First time on a submarine?
That's right.
Six-zero feet.
[Dahlgren] Lower the scope.
Captain, engine room reports minor flooding from shaft seals and brine pump.
- Bilge is at 18 inches and rising. - Very well.
How deep does this thing go?
She'll go all the way to the bottom if we don't stop her.
Normally we try not to get below 150 feet.
Any deeper, the leaks overwhelm the pumps.
These S-boats are antiques,
older than most of the crew.
One-zero-zero feet. Aye.
Excuse me, Mr. Emmett.
Put a pipe patch on it, lash it with marline.
The yard can fix it when we get back to port. Aye, sir.
Relax, gentlemen. She's old, but she'll hold.
Last night, at 0300 hours,
a British destroyer reported depth charging and sinking a German U-boat.
However, some time thereafter,
Allied direction finding stations triangulated a coded enemy radio signal...
to this position here, near the chop line.
We believe the U-boat was disabled, not sunk,
and is drifting eastward on a four-knot current.
Now, French resistance reported a resupply submarine...
sailed from the Lorient U-boat pens yesterday afternoon,
with engine parts and mechanics.
We believe it's gonna rendezvous with the disabled U-boat.
On board that U-boat is this.
- A typewriter? - An Enigma code machine.
It allows the German navy to communicate with its submarines in secret,
and our inability to decipher their messages is costing us this war.
Mr. Coonan? All right, this is basically a Trojan Horse operation.
The S-33 will rendezvous with the U-boat, posing as the German resupply sub.
I will lead a boarding party dressed in Kriegsmarine uniforms to the enemy submarine.
We will take it by force and secure the Enigma.
Any German survivors will be transferred to the S-33, and the U-boat will be scuttled.
The German resupply submarine will arrive at the rendezvous...
and will assume that the U-boat succumbed to its wounds and sank.
The Germans must never suspect we have the Enigma.
That is vital. So it's a race?
Yes, effectively. Who's the boarding party?
Well, since you're the X.O., you, sir.
Mr. Emmett, Mr. Larson, Mr. Hirsch and nine of your ship's company.
The captain, of course, will remain onboard the S-33.
Mr. Coonan, our boys are submarine sailors, not combat Marines.
The boys onboard that U-boat are sailors too.
Your men'll be ready, Lieutenant. I'll train them myself.
You've come to the right boat.
[Grunting]
[Speaking German]
[Engine Sputtering]
[Clanking, Engine Stops]
[Whistle Blowing] [Man Yelling In German]
Ahoy! Friends!
Stop! We have many wounded!
Take us prisoner, please! We'll be no trouble.
Give us a hand!
[Man Continues Shouting]
We need water... and food!
We just want to get home!
Give us a hand!
We have no...
[Screaming]
I'm telling you, she was hotter than Dorothy Lamour.
Really? Yeah, I could tell she was interested,
but she was classy, you know?
The type of girl that wants you to take her to a country club dance.
Yeah? Like you've ever seen the inside of a country club? Hey!
Like I'd even want to, all right?
Anyway, I can see I'm not getting anywhere with her,
so what I do is, I use my secret weapon.
I tell her about the S-26. Does the trick right away.
Don't be talking about that while we're underway.
Why? What happened with the S-26? Yeah, what happened?
You guys don't know? No. No.
She was running a test dive down off Norfolk.
Shaft seal failed.
She sunk to 400 feet.
Know how much water pressure there is that deep?
Mazzola, you will be the first one eating powdered eggs on this cruise.
Keep it up, you hear?
[Knocking] Come in.
This is our position, Captain. We're still bucking some pretty heavy seas.
I estimate us to be about three hours behind schedule.
I told Mr. Emmett to run at flank speed and hold off a trim dive...
until we make up the lost time. That's fine, Lieutenant.
You're a first-rate X.O., Andy.
A damn good submariner.
I know the men like you.
I'd give my life for any one of them, sir.
I know you would. I'm not questioning your bravery.
The question is: What about their lives?
You and Mr. Emmett are good friends.
You went to the Academy together.
Would you be willing to sacrifice his life?
Or what about some of the younger enlisted men?
You know, a lot of those guys look up to you like a big brother.
You willing to lay their lives on the line?
You see? You hesitate.
But as a captain, you can't.
You have to act.
If you don't, you put the entire crew at risk.
Now that's the job. It's not a science.
You have to be able to make hard decisions, based on imperfect information.
Asking men to carry out orders that may result in their deaths.
And if you're wrong, you suffer the consequences.
If you're not prepared to make those decisions...
without pause, without reflection,
then you've got no business being a submarine captain.
Tell Mr. Hirsch I'd like a word with him, would you?
Aye, sir.
More soup, Captain? Thank you.
I wish I was going with you, gentlemen.
I feel the same way you do, Carson.
Gentlemen, I'd like to propose a toast.
To the officers and crew of the S-33...
and our distinguished guests, Mr. Hirsch and Mr. Coonan.
- Success, gentlemen! - Success. - Success.
Captain Dahlgren, sir? What is it, Wentz?
Chief says we've picked up a radar contact at 0-7-0.
Very well. Mr. Larson?
Signal lamp off the starboard bow!
[Dahlgren] I see it.
Pass the word along: Submarine sighted off the starboard bow.
Stand by to man battle stations. Aye, sir.
All right, here we go. One last time.
Lieutenant Tyler's raft gets from the conning tower aft. My raft gets the gun crew.
And no one... no one... shoots till I shoot first.
You read me? [All] Yes, sir.
Outstanding. Lock and load.
It'll be all right, son.
Captain, I estimate the German resupply sub has a 14-knot speed of advance.
My latest plot puts them at 12 hours away, sir. Very well, Mr. Larson.
Captain, the boarding party's ready, sir. Await your go-ahead.
Put her low in the water. I wanna give that U-boat as little silhouette as we can.
Sir? Prepare to disembark the boarding party.
Aye, Captain.
If this thing goes south,
I will blow that Nazi boat right out of the water.
Understood, sir. Very well.
All set, Captain.
Now you listen to me.
You get them their damn trophy and get the hell outta there.
- Aye, sir. - The boys are gonna be fine.
I know they will, sir.
Good luck, Andy.
Godspeed, Skipper.
[Speaking German]
[Cheering]
[Panting]
Easy, Mr. Hirsch. We're almost there.
We'll bushwhack 'em real good.
All right, we got 12 men topside, three on the bridge,
four on the foredeck, five aft.
Now remember: Both rafts need to be tied up...
before we move.
Jesus H. Christ. They got machine guns.
Steady, gentlemen.
Wait for the signal.
[Yelling In German]
Mr. Hirsch.
- Hello the boat, you asshole. - Shut up.
[Yelling In German]
Goddamn you, Hirsch, say something.
[Yelling In German]
[Coonan] Let's go! Board this thing! Get out of the rafts!
Conning tower! Move, move!
Clear the conning tower now!
- [Coonan Shouting] - Another one there!
- Griggs is hit! - Get him off!
Move, move! Trigger, on the back!
Griggs! Griggs!
We gotta get inside! Griggs!
[Tyler] Chief, Tank, come down now!
Ready?
Quick, open it! Fire!
Tyler, let's go! Inside!
Cover your men! Go, go!
Don't let 'em close it. Don't let 'em close it!
Two, three, four, five. Shut it.
Let's go. Go! Get down! Go!
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
[Coughing]
Get off him, get off him! Don't move, don't move! Get back, get back!
Just drop it! Drop it!
[Coonan] Get 'em outta here! Get 'em outta here!
Did they hit you? I'm okay, sir.
Stern team, go! Bow team, go!
I'm outta clips, sir. You go ahead.
- Rabbit! - All right, get 'em outta here.
Get 'em outta here! Let's go! Get down! Down, down, down, down! Get down!
All right, who's the captain? Huh? Who's the captain?
Kapitan? How about you, ugly? You the captain, huh?
Trigger, if anybody moves, you shoot 'em right here in the forehead, understand?
Yes, sir! All right.
[Machine-Gun Fire, Shouting]
Hirsch, we got it.
[Panting]
[Shouting In German]
[Shouting]
[Speaking German] Get down, down!
- Down there! - Down, down!
Rabbit, check the bilge for a scuttling charge. Give me your weapon!
Move, sailor, move! Aye, sir!
[Emmett] Goddamn it, stay there.
- Hirsch, I think we got the code books! - That ink's running. Dry it.
It's water soluble. Yeah, use the blankets, use the blankets.
Nothing but pipes and valves, Mr. Emmett.
Bow compartment secure.
[Yelling]
[Panting]
[Mazzola Yells]
Bunch of Marys.
[Eddie] How you doing? You're number ten. There you go.
You having a good night? Uh-huh.
Ain't gonna be none too happy you lost his boat.
Lucky number eleven, let's go!
It's your first time looking at a black man, ain't it?
Get used to it.
Let's go! Get over here!
[Coonan] All right, hurry it up. It's gonna be sunup in an hour.
- Fuse is burning, sir. - All right, she's burning! Let's get this raft loaded!
Let's move!
Sir, we got all the prisoners transferred to the S-33.
Very well.
Hey, Andy.
[Coonan] Make sure you got everything! Get it in the raft!
Get everything belowdecks. Let's go!
Everybody, belowdecks! Get down!
Chief, take her down! Aye, sir!
Let's go, Hirsch! The Enigma!
Trigger! Grab hold!
Trigger! Attaboy!
- Got it! - Help me! Help me! Oh, no! No!
[Screams]
[Tank] We gotta get outta here! There's still men in the water.
Let's go! Chief, there's still men in the water.
- Go! - [Panting]
[Dahlgren] Andy! Andy!
Go! Dive!
Take her down! Take her down!
Dive!
[Panting] [Shouting, Screaming]
[Chief] Tyler, let's go!
[Panting]
- Chief, you find those vents? - Everything's in German!
Rabbit, get to the torpedo room. Where's the goddamn 1 MC? Trigger, get on the helm!
Mazzola, take the planes! Aye, sir.
[Chief] Wentz, what about these? I don't know.
There's no label! Okay, those are the aft ballast tanks vents!
These are the midship vents, and these are the main induction valves.
[Chief] Make sure they're shut. Tank, I need speed!
Get the screws turning.
The lights are on, so there's got to be some power left. I can't read this!
Rabbit, find out how many fish we've got in the tubes! Figure out how to launch 'em!
Go! I can't read this!
Go help Tank, Hirsch. Go, Hirsch! Find the Christmas tree.
We've gotta make sure we don't have any holes in the boat!
"Klar, klar, klar." Wentz, what the hell is "klar"?
"Klar" means "clear." All compartments secure.
White for green? No holes in the ship! Dive the boat! White for green.
Opening ballast vents! Opening midship valves!
Opening midship vents!
This is forward trim, aft trim. These are auxiliaries.
Main motor. Auxiliary, auxiliary.
This is in meters. Everything's in meters.
Passing 15 meters.
Recommend shutting main vents!
- Make it so! Wentz, get in the sound room! - Yes, sir!
Make depth 20 meters. Depth 20 meters, aye.
- Chief, take the dive! - I have the dive.
At 20 meters. Bow planes at zero. Control your depth with the stern planes.
Bow planes at zero. Controlling down with the stern planes.
Oh, shit. All ahead full, sir!
Batteries are flat and draining fast!
[Wentz] Mr. Tyler, I hear the S-33 breaking up. Wait.
I hold a submerged U-boat, 0-1-0.
Real close. Less than 1,000 yards.
Goddamn resupply sub. What's our heading? Two-eight-zero, sir!
All right, right full rudder! Steady on 0-1-0!
Aye, sir! Right full rudder. Steady on course 0-1-0.
Tank, starboard back full. Rabbit, get back to me.
Starboard back full. Aye, sir.
- Watch your depth. She'll squat. - Rabbit!
We got four fish. Tubes are flooded, but I can't open the doors until I'm equalized.
I can't find the valve! Wentz, help Rabbit!
Enemy submarine close aboard. Torpedo in the water. Torpedo in the water!
All right, belay that. Wentz, stay where you are!
Hirsch, hotfoot it to the torpedo room!
Helm, mark your head every ten degrees. Aye, sir.
- Now passing 3-2-0. - Turn, baby, turn. Turn!
Equalizing valves. Holy shit! What's what? This is crazy. I can't equalize the tubes!
What do you need?
Equalizing valves! Equalizing valves! Valve?