I thought today, for Military History Monday, I’d do a couple of videos at the intersection of survival and military history. For reasons.
Short-ish: Have you ever asked yourself, “Self, how do I escape from a sinking submarine?”
If so:
- You’re weird. (Unless you served on subs in the Navy.)
- I want to hang out with you.
“Submarine Escape” from 1953.
Long: there are actually two versions of this on the ‘Tube. I’m picking the longer one because the shorter one seems to be cut off. The longer one seems to be a little chopped as well, but not as dramatically.
“Survival in the Arctic Tundra”. In which the crew of a C-119 bails out and has to survive…in the Arctic tundra.
The Saturday Night Movie Group recently watched “Island in the Sky“, one of William Wellman’s two great John Wayne aviation films. (The other is “The High and the Mighty“.) “Island” is in large part about the crew of a downed aircraft trying to survive in the Arctic, and in equally large part about the interpersonal relationships between transport pilots, and how everyone unites when a crew is in trouble.
Both movies get my thumbs-up seal of approval.
Also, I kind of like the C-119.