[21twelve]

Dem4Bush got me started on these old movies. Found the following “Destroyer” with Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson (1943). A bit hokie, but okay. Especially when thinking of that year, and my old man going through his training and getting put on a ship that same year iirc.

[21twelve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nOT7DxvujY

Oops - above is the youtube link to “Destroyer”

[MasterGunner01]

“They Were Expendable” (1945) with Robert Montgomery and John Wayne uses real PT boats and was shot in and around Miami, FL. None of original 77-foot Elco boats were gone from serve by the time filming began and so two 80-foot Elco and four 78-foot Huckins PT boats were used as stand-ins. In real life, Robert Montgomery was a Naval Reserve officer qualified in PT boats!

The “They Were Expendable” movie has the usual Hollywood wartime propaganda but it is watchable because of the boats in action. By the end of 1946, most of the boats had been sold off or scrapped.

“Tora, Tora” Tora” (1968) is THE Pearl Harbor att movie that set the bar high for Hollywood docudramas. All these years later it is still a “must see” to understand the run-up to the attack.

[98ZJ USMC]

Found the following “Destroyer” with Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson (1943). A bit hokie, but okay

It is, but I still kinda like it.