WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.590 align:middle line:90%


00:00:02.590 --> 00:00:05.740 align:middle line:90%
NARRATOR: June 22, 1945.

00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:10.150 align:middle line:84%
Two hours after midnight, USS
Barb creeps into Sherry Harbor

00:00:10.150 --> 00:00:13.060 align:middle line:90%
as the city of 20,000 sleeps.

00:00:13.060 --> 00:00:16.290 align:middle line:84%
Manufacturing plants
line the shore.

00:00:16.290 --> 00:00:17.910 align:middle line:84%
Destroying factories
would further

00:00:17.910 --> 00:00:19.310 align:middle line:90%
damage Japanese industry.

00:00:19.310 --> 00:00:22.260 align:middle line:90%


00:00:22.260 --> 00:00:25.680 align:middle line:84%
Using USS Barb as the
platform, the crew readies

00:00:25.680 --> 00:00:28.650 align:middle line:90%
an unprecedented attack.

00:00:28.650 --> 00:00:31.740 align:middle line:84%
Fluckey plans to barrage the
board with high powered rockets

00:00:31.740 --> 00:00:34.700 align:middle line:90%
with explosive warheads.

00:00:34.700 --> 00:00:37.820 align:middle line:84%
Originally designed to be
fired from fighter planes,

00:00:37.820 --> 00:00:40.220 align:middle line:84%
rockets had also been
used aboard landing craft

00:00:40.220 --> 00:00:44.900 align:middle line:84%
in the attack on Okinawa
earlier in the year,

00:00:44.900 --> 00:00:48.140 align:middle line:84%
but no submarine has ever
launched an attack with rockets

00:00:48.140 --> 00:00:49.490 align:middle line:90%
from its deck before.

00:00:49.490 --> 00:00:53.170 align:middle line:90%


00:00:53.170 --> 00:00:57.080 align:middle line:84%
They position Barb 4,700
yards off the shore

00:00:57.080 --> 00:00:59.320 align:middle line:90%
to target the city.

00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:04.900 align:middle line:84%
At 1:50 am, Fluckey gives
the order to man the rockets.

00:01:04.900 --> 00:01:07.070 align:middle line:84%
Rocket Captain Saunders
sets up the missile

00:01:07.070 --> 00:01:10.540 align:middle line:90%
launcher and loads 12 rockets.

00:01:10.540 --> 00:01:14.716 align:middle line:84%
 Rocket attacks from submarines
had never been done before.

00:01:14.716 --> 00:01:17.770 align:middle line:10%
For the US Navy, they were just
getting around to employing

00:01:17.770 --> 00:01:20.110 align:middle line:10%
rockets on surface ships.

00:01:20.110 --> 00:01:23.190 align:middle line:84%
So to employ it on a
submarine was brand new.

00:01:23.190 --> 00:01:25.870 align:middle line:84%
NARRATOR: Each spin-stabilized
rocket is nearly three feet

00:01:25.870 --> 00:01:29.980 align:middle line:84%
long, with a rocket
head, motor, and fuse,

00:01:29.980 --> 00:01:33.670 align:middle line:84%
and contains over
nine pounds of TNT.

00:01:33.670 --> 00:01:37.150 align:middle line:84%
The launcher can be
set to fire at 30, 35,

00:01:37.150 --> 00:01:40.270 align:middle line:90%
40, or 45 degree elevations.

00:01:40.270 --> 00:01:42.970 align:middle line:84%
The payload of 12 rockets
dropped by gravity feed

00:01:42.970 --> 00:01:44.190 align:middle line:90%
into the magazine.

00:01:44.190 --> 00:01:49.690 align:middle line:90%


00:01:49.690 --> 00:01:50.885 align:middle line:90%
 Rockets away.

00:01:50.885 --> 00:01:52.640 align:middle line:84%
NARRATOR: The explosion
of white light

00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:54.540 align:middle line:84%
illuminates the
deck as 12 rocket

00:01:54.540 --> 00:01:59.760 align:middle line:84%
lift off and disappear
into the night sky.

00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:04.540 align:middle line:90%


00:02:04.540 --> 00:02:07.120 align:middle line:84%
The silence is broken by
the thunder of explosions.

00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.259 align:middle line:90%


00:02:10.259 --> 00:02:12.720 align:middle line:84%
While Barb races
to its next target,

00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:15.390 align:middle line:84%
Commander Fluckey receives
a message from headquarters

00:02:15.390 --> 00:02:17.404 align:middle line:90%
which confirms their success.

00:02:17.404 --> 00:02:18.204 align:middle line:90%