Mark Allen M wrote:
https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MarineCorps/id/2596
My home airport SBA Santa Barbara, CA
Title:USMC 102499:
VMTB-143 training
Description:
Multiple events. F4Us and TBMs of MAG-48 take off and land at Goleta Field. In dense wooded area, a Marine uses a flamethrower on an unidentifiable target. Gun camera footage shows attacks on ships (including a submarine with hull number 23) and an unidentified island. Followed by content showing VMTB-143 in Anti-Submarine Warfare School training against target skids.
Just a note to viewers, though just a basic clip description the Title Description is in error as to gun camera
clip about the Sub 23 at the 6 minute mark. She is one of ours a fairly antique Holland boat S-class, S-23(SS-128) keel-laid 1919 and commissioned 1923. She served six war patrols in the Aleutians which must have been quite rough on the crew as she was an old single-hull boat without a lot of modern equipment(heating, comms, more modern keel sonar) she didn't receive until after her fourth war patrol. After the sixth war patrol she was sent to San Diego for sound School duties and refit in April 1943. From the fall of '43 to Sept 1945 she remained in San Diego attached to the Ant-Submarine Sound School as a training aid to the fleet. She received one Battle Star for her efforts and was decommed Nov. 1945, scrapped in '46.
Thanks Mark for these great clips!
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