Against his personal preference, PT boat commander Ward Stewart is made executive officer of the submarine USS Corsair. On leave before sailing, he meets schoolteacher Jean Hewlett and gives her a romantic rush...unaware that she's the sweetheart of Dewey Connors, his new commander. At sea, the men bond while fighting German Q-ships. When will they discover their mutual romantic rivalry? Will it interfere with a spectacular commando raid on a secret German base?
I have put together (10) World War II submarine movies. Crash Dive 1943 with Tyrone Power is the 3rd of those 10 sub movies that I will upload over the next week.
Movie Trivia
In the opening scene, the boy in the raft says that he can hear airplanes, which turn out to be PT boats. Many of the WWII PT boats were powered by airplane engines.
The US Navy provided naval equipment and allowed access to their fleet of submarines and also supplied service personnel.
Background shots for this movie were filmed at the United States Navy's Naval Submarine Base situated at New London, Connecticut.
The PT boats seen at the beginning (and for a brief moment, at the end) of the film are Elco 77 foot PT's, the type of boat that saw intense combat against the Japanese Navy's "Tokyo Express" in the Guadalcanal area early in World War II. The wartime second-series Elco 77-footers, which were the same type as PT 59, John F. Kennedy's second command after PT 109 was rammed and sunk, are seldom seen on film, and hardly ever in color.
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