August 21, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Author's playhouse.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Presenting Richard Sayle's timely ray of daring in the face.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Of danger Off Tokyo Bay.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
This is the story of those lonely hunters of the sea,
the men of the United States Submarine Fleet, stalking the
enemy in his own familiar waters, hurling their torpedoes into
his very heart. When the last final score has been tallied,
democracy will at last know her That to heroes like
the gallant crew of the submarine Squid who dared to
(01:09):
laugh at the lady upstairs. What they did they considered
no more than their duty. Yet a deathless glory was
their reward. As Richard Sayle relates in Off Hokyo Bay.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
What are you planning to call the young man, Mary? If?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
And when curd Heavens read with a foolish question. In
the first place, he's got to be a boy.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
And in the.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Second place, his name's going to be Paul Brainard Hayden Junior.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I don't see why you should be so proud of that, moniker, Paul.
What have you ever done that it make you want
to perpetuate it that? I guess you got something there, right,
It's still Paul, I'll answer, I never saw Mary looking better?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
How much longer now, Paul?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Maybe a couple of weeks, maybe a month. Stanhope refuses
to commit himself.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Hello, just a moment, please phone call.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
For Lieutenant Commander Paul B.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Hayden.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
No less sounds very efficial, skilled me Red William Oh sure,
go ride ahead, Poe. The tenant commander Hayden speaking, Yes,
he's here, Sir, sounds as if you're included.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Read n no, Sir, I hadn't heard, Sir, very well, sir.
At once, Sir, Lieutenant Commander Wilson and Lieutenant Commander Hayden
had a report at once to Rear Admiral Donovan.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
It seems that about an hour ago the Japs bombed
Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Tenant Commander Hayden.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
And the tenant commander Wilson, recording to Admiral Donovan has ordered.
Speaker 8 (03:14):
This way if you please.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Come in, Lieutenant Commander Hayden, Lieutenant Commander Wilson reporting his orders.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Sir, come in, gentlemen, thank sir. Sit down, Hayden said Wilson,
Thank you, sir. The squid all ship shape haidden bout
as turn, sir, how about the seahorse? Wilson ready for
anything sir, good I've already received orders which I am
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sure you, gentlemen will find very welcome. Briefly, you are
to attack the Japs in and all Tokyo.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Thank you, sir. Just what we're going for.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Austened we cast off, Sir, you'll report to your ships
at once, and sealed orders will be delivered to you.
We're counting rather heavily on you, gentlemen, and the commanders
of our other submarines. At the moment, we're hardly in
a position to meet the Japs with our surface units.
So it's up to you to put the fear of
God and the American Navy in their unbelieving hearts. Good
(04:27):
luck hidden, Thank you, sir, Good luck Wilson, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
One thing more, gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Naturally you will attack whatever enemy ships you may encounter.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
But it's the hope of every.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Man in the Navy that you will find your cross
hairs centered and aircraft carrier. Like to make a little bet,
(05:01):
Paul on what red not long? Which of us gets
the first flat top?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
What kind of a bed? How much?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Well, I've got a bottle of ten year old Scotch
I've been saving to Christ and that kid of yours
with when it gets him. But since Paul Brainerd Hayden
Junior hasn't been launched yet, and since he might turn
out to be a girl anyway.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Why don't you put up against the Scotch hmm?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
How old is it? Ten years?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
How about a dollar a year? Ten bucks against the
jug done? Wait a minute? Read what happens if neither
one of us gets a flat top.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That's the easiest thing in the world.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
If we both get back, we can still christen your
young hopeful and you can buy him a fur lined
high chair with your ten bucks.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And if we don't get back, the BET's are they're not?
Good luck Paul.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
It's been swell seeing you and Mary again, saying back
at you, Red, I'll be looking forward to collecting that bed.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
What do you see for sweetheart? Is the dream of
every guy whoever wet his feet in the tank in London.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Take a look.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
God free in a Mobson. If what Wilson could only see?
This looks like one of the battle cruisers they converted aircraft.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
That's what it is, all right. I've bet a million
bucks it's the.
Speaker 10 (06:41):
Ataggy Let's scatter skipper that's what I intend to do, Hanagan.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Of course two to five, that's well, of.
Speaker 11 (06:52):
Course two to five. That's slower.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
And for Pete's sake, holderr down if she broaches. Now
the bari us all and nipping, sir, how many destroyers
do you count, Paul?
Speaker 11 (07:04):
Five?
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Yeah, that's what I made up too. They're screening her
two cock eyed.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
Well, you're gonna head south, hugging the land, and the
Cans are taking the outside train.
Speaker 10 (07:16):
Got the fire under them, Johnny. They'll pick us up
on the hydrophones anytime.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Now, that's the chance. We've got to take bar tube stand.
Speaker 10 (07:26):
By, bow tube, stand by bow tube, standing by, set
depth at eighteen feet, set depth to eighteen feet.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Depth set at eighteen feet. At last, Can's picked us up, Johnny.
He's changed her course and she's boiling our way.
Speaker 12 (07:45):
Fire one fire, one fire, one fire, two fire two
fire two Yeah, change course to too old, change course
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too too old, it is, sir.
Speaker 11 (08:12):
Fire three fire, three fire.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Three h.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
Fire pour firefall fire, pour take it down eighty f
Sorry we couldn't wait to see the fun Johnny. I
think you destroyer making for.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Us with blood and rye.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
We're doing for a hot time in the old town.
Speaker 11 (08:44):
About a minute thirty feet there?
Speaker 8 (08:47):
What's up bout him here?
Speaker 13 (08:48):
Johnny one hundred place gipper body feet, sir, listen, number.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
One got home. Number two's doing.
Speaker 11 (09:02):
Eight seconds fifty face serve.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
Number two missed, probably went under sixty face. Number three
is doing the eleven seconds. Yes, she missed two seventy
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feet serve.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
There's one more chance, skipper. Don't forget that, good old
number four, she made it.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
I hope they got the carrier, not the cans. Those
cans dragged ten feet mean draft and the big flat
tops around twenty one engines off engines off engines are.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
No.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Let's see how good the lady upstairs is. Can you
hear that?
Speaker 11 (10:16):
Can? Trusty?
Speaker 8 (10:17):
I sir, I've got.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
Her in the phones.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Now it's getting closer.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
There's the first age can skipper still coming our way? Frosty, I, sir, fast,
you don't need to hide her phones to tell that
one was nearer. Things are getting warm.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
First casualty one light club sounds getting fatal. Sir, I
think they've changed their course.
Speaker 10 (10:58):
She's turned all right, probably gone to do some rescue work.
I wish we knew if we got that flattop skipper,
or we got something. I could just see Red Wilson's
face if.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
He has to pay off. Sounds growing very faint, Sir,
she's left for good.
Speaker 9 (11:23):
Tomorrow we'll probably get the Tokyo short Way, bragging how
they sank a whole flotilla of American suns.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Take her up to forty feet had again, we'll have
another look. Engines get slow engines.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
That's slow, engines dead slow.
Speaker 11 (11:42):
I'd like to.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
Trade all day on that basis, Skipper for fish and
one light globe for a jeft carrier or even a destroyer,
or maybe both.
Speaker 11 (11:52):
Seventy feet, sir.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Those who know what the score is. Any further sign
of that can drowski con Sir, faint it out to
where I can barely hear it.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Sixty paget, michaels Isa, check the bottle of Peter rooms.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
See if the tubes are reloaded.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
Fifty pet we might be able to get in another
shot or two upstairs, All tubes reloaded.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
All tubes run, Captains, Captain.
Speaker 14 (12:40):
Captain s I'm all right, Henniga, Tony Ben Invider all present,
but I don't know if I'm McCarter horse Skipper. I
must have been out like Bloody's eye.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Where are we down on the bottom of Tokyo Bay.
See if your torch is working any.
Speaker 15 (13:00):
I, sir, he's white, except it's water broke. Go over
to the box and put in new fuels, I, sir,
may only be blown out of fuels.
Speaker 11 (13:12):
Just a chance.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
The globes may be Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
How try is that?
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (13:17):
Yeah, you hurt?
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Trusty? Oh ye, I guess not, sir. Something cracked me
on my head. Oh that's the hydrophone. See if it's
still working, Ay, sir, Oh that's better. Nice work. Now
we can see what we're doing.
Speaker 11 (13:36):
How do you suppose those gloves?
Speaker 9 (13:38):
Oh, way're telling handigans. Just a freak, a freak we
ought to be thankful for. Aty nine times out of
one hundred those gloves would have broken, But there seems
to be the hundredth times. See if the phone's working, said,
call the bar compartment and ask them to report we're
making water here. Lights must plates must have been showing
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the rivets.
Speaker 16 (14:00):
Someway, I sir, Control call out compartment Control calling Bowel compartment,
Bowers Compartment, report to control Bowel Compartment, reports to control,
Ball Compartments.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
And reports are, try the engine room. That Chie's still alive.
Having come forward, I say.
Speaker 11 (14:25):
Control, calling engine.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Room, engine room, go ahead, control what's.
Speaker 11 (14:31):
The dope back there? Chief?
Speaker 7 (14:32):
All hands safe, making some water but not much?
Speaker 11 (14:37):
All hands safe, answer, Tell him to come forward, I sir,
Captain's orders. All hands at come forward, understood, understood? What
the devil happened to us?
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Pullman that can come back? Why didn't trustle take it easy?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Johnny?
Speaker 8 (15:00):
There was no depth to charge. We had a mile?
Oh oh, must the nose right up into it? Bows?
Probably a mess that writes we all ought to be
dead lucky? I am, yeah, I suppose we are.
Speaker 10 (15:21):
Now.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
All we gotta do is get out of this crip.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
That does seem the logical thing to do. And Johnny,
I think it'd be wiser if we observed the formella
was a rank. We're in a tough spot, and it
might set a better example for the man. You understand, understood, sir,
very well, Lieutenant. We'll try to control room. Hatch Harson.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
And General Grew reporting, sir, how'd.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
You get that cut? Chief? Don't know how I got it, Susan.
How our things are? We've got to blow out of here, sir,
one of the plates to buckled. How much water so far?
It's knee deep, sir. We can't shut the water tight door.
Spuckled out of blind if the water reaches batter no
chee glory. We can't blow out of there. We hit
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a mine. Oh you haven't got any ball. That's not
dam Tannigan.
Speaker 11 (16:17):
Almost one hundred feet there.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
That's what we're up against. Chief to her hatches cancer.
No wait to open the short of blowing it.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Loose at bower. Hatches out of the question, and you
can try the stern hatch. We'll ever get out of here.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
The tenant. Go up in the conning tower and see
if it's all there, right, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
H h.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Then mh.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
I have had no penny for the sake of the majority.
I'll shoot any man who pennies. We're going to get
out of here, but it's going to take guts nerves.
We're going to get out. I was the third hatch, Hannigan.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
It won't open, sir, very well.
Speaker 9 (17:20):
Lieutenant Viter is examining the conning tower. We're bringing escape line.
Make it fast down here. We'll float it to the surface.
When we open the conning tower hatch. Go after the
gear of the turn escape hatch, Hannigan, and bring it here.
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How does the Conning tower look?
Speaker 8 (17:42):
The pennant all sounds. He's not making water anywhere I
could see, so thank you.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Attendant Michael's is go aft and open the stern torpedo
tubes and let in the sea.
Speaker 11 (17:54):
Isac.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
You can't do it, Skipper. You can't open the Conning
Tower hatch. You've got a one hundred feet of Japanese
sea on top of you. We've got to do it.
All the other hatches are jammed. Feel their way out,
but it's impossible. You can't do it. You can't raise
that against the weight and pressure of the sea. We'll
have to try anyway.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
We've got to raise the pressure inside the squid to
a point where it nearly matches the pressure outside. That's
why I voted the stern opedo to its open. We'll
be ready for it in a minute, Adigan, man, I
want volunteers. Go open the Conning tower.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Hed Gen Invider.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
You will take Williams, Marvin, Rofino, and Swinson open the
Conning Tower hetch whatever I got s.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Come on, man, he's a minute.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
I comes as open to Stein topedo too, I don't
know myself. I'll hide the water will go. All hands
put on moms and lunds. Stand by the tank broxygen
and they can take over the stood. Everybody listen carefully.
We're only one hundred feet deep here. You've all been
that deep in the tank in New London. You all
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know there's enough oxygen in the moms and land and
take you to the surface from this depth in easy stages.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
Be sure the clip is tight on your nose and
grab the mouth piece with your teeth and you'll be
all right.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
The volunteer crew will attempt to open the hatch. If
it opens, the sea will pour it. For God say,
keep your heads stand still in line. The life line
will shoot to the surface first. The volunteers will go
up the line first, ascending slowly, pausing is the proper edivals.
If you shoot topside all at once, you'll die. Your
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runs a first.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
I just don't no panic. Men, one by one, plenty
of time, lots.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
Of life in the moms, and if you don't lose
your nerves. If one man loses his nerve, we may
kill us all. After the volunteers enlisted men, then petties,
followed by the officers and the master understood. Any questions.
What happens when we get top side, sir? That's sorry
(20:15):
about that. When we get there, will.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
The ship filled completely?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Sir?
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Possibly not. I don't know.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
We've got to build up pressure in here in order
to get the hatch open. You've got to try and
match the pressure outside, and we'll never get it open
any more questions, Lieutenant Mighter, get your group busy as oder.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
Follow me.
Speaker 11 (20:38):
Man, I'm saying with a big flat top we knocked
off set.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
I'm sure it was the Kagy, one of the battle
cruises they consider. Are you sure we got it, sir?
Speaker 9 (20:50):
You heard our fish? Hannigan an eighteen feet. They should
have passed right under the destroyers. If we're running in
the way, I can glory be.
Speaker 11 (20:58):
This is a cheap price, web Pain. I can die
happy now, sir.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
We're not dead yet, Hannigan not by alongside a turn
Puffio to the open John's work, Michael, take a lung.
The lieutenant had the crew wading on the conning tower hats.
That's the way we're going to escape.
Speaker 17 (21:23):
We're not enable to open the hatch. We haven't loosened.
But who can't lift it? Against the pressure on it.
I expected that lieutenant all nonsense. Read already here, sir,
I'm going to open the forward.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
Water tight door. We'll be flooded.
Speaker 9 (21:36):
When I give the command, start your crew again on
the hatch understune starts.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
If you're none of us.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
Bad, your cooner's get going on that hatch for all
your work. The minute I give the command, I get oh,
you meant here, line up with the ladder. Don't move
out of line. Michaels I said, you'll go up the
ladder and hand the life line the lieutenant Vider, I said,
m h, Lieutenant, Fighter Minkles is bringing you the lifeline.
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When you see bloods and you open the hatch, you
will let the.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
Life line go up. The man who are with you
will send the line one at a time. You will
then descend the ladder and kick my hand twice if
all's clear. So I understand that.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
After I get the old clear from a lieutenant, I'll
punch each man's arm twice when I want him to
start up the mine.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Understood. Bompson's on all and again break open the bow door.
Speaker 11 (22:45):
I was king that fighter.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Remember, man, I'll.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Punch your arms twice when it's your turn.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
No one is to go out of time, your.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
Feeling sleep flying?
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Johnny?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Right here, stepper, where's Hennigan? Right here?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
How about Michael the chief here?
Speaker 11 (23:33):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Right is rains here just as we.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
How many all told Johnny.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Sorry, it's to doctor see could you huging and captain?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And also because you.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
May be saying prayer for all of us, Yes, Hennighan,
our heavenly father, we thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And thy deliberance.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Did have blessed those who loved and were loved by
the others, and to comfort them with the knowledge that
they entered into Thy heavenly kingdom in the way they
would have wished it, fighting for their country and for the.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Amen.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Amen, Amen, Amen.
Speaker 11 (24:24):
And thank you sir. They'll be resting easier now.
Speaker 18 (24:52):
Almost favored, for I can see some seagulls. If it's
a nipsey us, the other men will be the lucky ones.
Speaker 11 (25:02):
Gluck, sir, to the north.
Speaker 18 (25:05):
It's it's a sea horse, by all that's holy.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Poor it's Red Wilson and the seahorse.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Good old Red Hannigan.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Hi, sir, can you still make a signal with your flashlights? Hi?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Sir?
Speaker 11 (25:18):
Shall I said, request assistance.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
No signal is standing in the danger SIGNALIM is a
minefield here. Identify as the squid survivors, but signal them
not to take the chance of losing his chip by
picking us up.
Speaker 17 (25:43):
What's all this about?
Speaker 19 (25:44):
Flashlight signals to the south poson message just completed, sir,
squid survivors minefield, the skipper says, make no attempt to rescue.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Pall the devil with that kind of stuff. Hoist the
raft Poson, pick up those men. We'll bring them back.
We won't get back ourselves.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
The hospitality of my.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Shift to you, Commander Hayden, Thank you, Commander Wilson, Oh Paul,
you lucky son of a sun.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Very red.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
All we did was spoke a mind to mine. Wow,
I know what I saw, and I saw everything, and
me sitting for the northeast corner of that bay while
those babies ran for the.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
South ball Dolly, Paul, what a picture with me.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
It broke my heart not to be able to get
a couple in because I didn't there broke one of
the can the chase you of her of hitting you?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Did I get her? Did I get the carrier?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Did you get her?
Speaker 7 (26:41):
You got all seven hundred feet of her.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
She was a furnace from one end of the other.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Tell me more, rad, I never listened to sweet a musica.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
You smacked her midships, and you smacked ther at, and
she lighted up the bay all the way to Yokohava.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
She sank in seven minutes flat, and I nearly balled.
Speaker 19 (26:56):
I was so jealous, Sir, Yes, enemy aircraft approaching from their.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Verywell take her down, I sir, Well, come on, Papa hidden, Let's.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Flip the quickly to the future admiral of yours. What
message received about an hour ago? Paul eight pounds nine ounces.
Both Mary and Paul Rynder Jr. Doing nicely, All read red.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Let's go below.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Paul, You're wet and cold, and I'm ready to collect.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
That bed you have heard.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Richard Sayle short story off Tokyo Bay, adapted for Author's
Playhouse by Jack Mitchell and directed by Frank Path. Carl
Weber was heard as Lieutenant Commander Paul Hayden. The score
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was composed and conducted by doctor Roy Shield. Next Wednesday,
same time, same station, Author's Playhouse will bring you W. C.
Simpson's story of life on the Mississippi River Captain Author's
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Playhouse came to you, to Chicago. This is the National
broadcasting Company.
Author's playhouse.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Presenting Richard Sayle's timely ray of daring in the face.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Of danger Off Tokyo Bay.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
This is the story of those lonely hunters of the sea,
the men of the United States Submarine Fleet, stalking the
enemy in his own familiar waters, hurling their torpedoes into
his very heart. When the last final score has been tallied,
democracy will at last know her That to heroes like
the gallant crew of the submarine Squid who dared to
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laugh at the lady upstairs. What they did they considered
no more than their duty. Yet a deathless glory was
their reward. As Richard Sayle relates in Off Hokyo Bay.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
What are you planning to call the young man, Mary? If?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
And when curd Heavens read with a foolish question. In
the first place, he's got to be a boy.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
And in the.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Second place, his name's going to be Paul Brainard Hayden Junior.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I don't see why you should be so proud of that, moniker, Paul.
What have you ever done that it make you want
to perpetuate it that? I guess you got something there, right,
It's still Paul, I'll answer, I never saw Mary looking better?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
How much longer now, Paul?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Maybe a couple of weeks, maybe a month. Stanhope refuses
to commit himself.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Hello, just a moment, please phone call.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
For Lieutenant Commander Paul B.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Hayden.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
No less sounds very efficial, skilled me Red William Oh sure,
go ride ahead, Poe. The tenant commander Hayden speaking, Yes,
he's here, Sir, sounds as if you're included.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Read n no, Sir, I hadn't heard, Sir, very well, sir.
At once, Sir, Lieutenant Commander Wilson and Lieutenant Commander Hayden
had a report at once to Rear Admiral Donovan.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
It seems that about an hour ago the Japs bombed
Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Tenant Commander Hayden.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
And the tenant commander Wilson, recording to Admiral Donovan has ordered.
Speaker 8 (03:14):
This way if you please.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Come in, Lieutenant Commander Hayden, Lieutenant Commander Wilson reporting his orders.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Sir, come in, gentlemen, thank sir. Sit down, Hayden said Wilson,
Thank you, sir. The squid all ship shape haidden bout
as turn, sir, how about the seahorse? Wilson ready for
anything sir, good I've already received orders which I am
(03:52):
sure you, gentlemen will find very welcome. Briefly, you are
to attack the Japs in and all Tokyo.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Thank you, sir. Just what we're going for.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Austened we cast off, Sir, you'll report to your ships
at once, and sealed orders will be delivered to you.
We're counting rather heavily on you, gentlemen, and the commanders
of our other submarines. At the moment, we're hardly in
a position to meet the Japs with our surface units.
So it's up to you to put the fear of
God and the American Navy in their unbelieving hearts. Good
(04:27):
luck hidden, Thank you, sir, Good luck Wilson, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
One thing more, gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Naturally you will attack whatever enemy ships you may encounter.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
But it's the hope of every.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Man in the Navy that you will find your cross
hairs centered and aircraft carrier. Like to make a little bet,
(05:01):
Paul on what red not long? Which of us gets
the first flat top?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
What kind of a bed? How much?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Well, I've got a bottle of ten year old Scotch
I've been saving to Christ and that kid of yours
with when it gets him. But since Paul Brainerd Hayden
Junior hasn't been launched yet, and since he might turn
out to be a girl anyway.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Why don't you put up against the Scotch hmm?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
How old is it? Ten years?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
How about a dollar a year? Ten bucks against the
jug done? Wait a minute? Read what happens if neither
one of us gets a flat top.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That's the easiest thing in the world.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
If we both get back, we can still christen your
young hopeful and you can buy him a fur lined
high chair with your ten bucks.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And if we don't get back, the BET's are they're not?
Good luck Paul.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
It's been swell seeing you and Mary again, saying back
at you, Red, I'll be looking forward to collecting that bed.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
What do you see for sweetheart? Is the dream of
every guy whoever wet his feet in the tank in London.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Take a look.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
God free in a Mobson. If what Wilson could only see?
This looks like one of the battle cruisers they converted aircraft.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
That's what it is, all right. I've bet a million
bucks it's the.
Speaker 10 (06:41):
Ataggy Let's scatter skipper that's what I intend to do, Hanagan.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Of course two to five, that's well, of.
Speaker 11 (06:52):
Course two to five. That's slower.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
And for Pete's sake, holderr down if she broaches. Now
the bari us all and nipping, sir, how many destroyers
do you count, Paul?
Speaker 11 (07:04):
Five?
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Yeah, that's what I made up too. They're screening her
two cock eyed.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
Well, you're gonna head south, hugging the land, and the
Cans are taking the outside train.
Speaker 10 (07:16):
Got the fire under them, Johnny. They'll pick us up
on the hydrophones anytime.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Now, that's the chance. We've got to take bar tube stand.
Speaker 10 (07:26):
By, bow tube, stand by bow tube, standing by, set
depth at eighteen feet, set depth to eighteen feet.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Depth set at eighteen feet. At last, Can's picked us up, Johnny.
He's changed her course and she's boiling our way.
Speaker 12 (07:45):
Fire one fire, one fire, one fire, two fire two
fire two Yeah, change course to too old, change course
(08:08):
too too old, it is, sir.
Speaker 11 (08:12):
Fire three fire, three fire.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Three h.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
Fire pour firefall fire, pour take it down eighty f
Sorry we couldn't wait to see the fun Johnny. I
think you destroyer making for.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Us with blood and rye.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
We're doing for a hot time in the old town.
Speaker 11 (08:44):
About a minute thirty feet there?
Speaker 8 (08:47):
What's up bout him here?
Speaker 13 (08:48):
Johnny one hundred place gipper body feet, sir, listen, number.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
One got home. Number two's doing.
Speaker 11 (09:02):
Eight seconds fifty face serve.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
Number two missed, probably went under sixty face. Number three
is doing the eleven seconds. Yes, she missed two seventy
(09:35):
feet serve.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
There's one more chance, skipper. Don't forget that, good old
number four, she made it.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
I hope they got the carrier, not the cans. Those
cans dragged ten feet mean draft and the big flat
tops around twenty one engines off engines off engines are.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
No.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Let's see how good the lady upstairs is. Can you
hear that?
Speaker 11 (10:16):
Can? Trusty?
Speaker 8 (10:17):
I sir, I've got.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
Her in the phones.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Now it's getting closer.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
There's the first age can skipper still coming our way? Frosty, I, sir, fast,
you don't need to hide her phones to tell that
one was nearer. Things are getting warm.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
First casualty one light club sounds getting fatal. Sir, I
think they've changed their course.
Speaker 10 (10:58):
She's turned all right, probably gone to do some rescue work.
I wish we knew if we got that flattop skipper,
or we got something. I could just see Red Wilson's
face if.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
He has to pay off. Sounds growing very faint, Sir,
she's left for good.
Speaker 9 (11:23):
Tomorrow we'll probably get the Tokyo short Way, bragging how
they sank a whole flotilla of American suns.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Take her up to forty feet had again, we'll have
another look. Engines get slow engines.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
That's slow, engines dead slow.
Speaker 11 (11:42):
I'd like to.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
Trade all day on that basis, Skipper for fish and
one light globe for a jeft carrier or even a destroyer,
or maybe both.
Speaker 11 (11:52):
Seventy feet, sir.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Those who know what the score is. Any further sign
of that can drowski con Sir, faint it out to
where I can barely hear it.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Sixty paget, michaels Isa, check the bottle of Peter rooms.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
See if the tubes are reloaded.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
Fifty pet we might be able to get in another
shot or two upstairs, All tubes reloaded.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
All tubes run, Captains, Captain.
Speaker 14 (12:40):
Captain s I'm all right, Henniga, Tony Ben Invider all present,
but I don't know if I'm McCarter horse Skipper. I
must have been out like Bloody's eye.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Where are we down on the bottom of Tokyo Bay.
See if your torch is working any.
Speaker 15 (13:00):
I, sir, he's white, except it's water broke. Go over
to the box and put in new fuels, I, sir,
may only be blown out of fuels.
Speaker 11 (13:12):
Just a chance.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
The globes may be Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
How try is that?
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (13:17):
Yeah, you hurt?
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Trusty? Oh ye, I guess not, sir. Something cracked me
on my head. Oh that's the hydrophone. See if it's
still working, Ay, sir, Oh that's better. Nice work. Now
we can see what we're doing.
Speaker 11 (13:36):
How do you suppose those gloves?
Speaker 9 (13:38):
Oh, way're telling handigans. Just a freak, a freak we
ought to be thankful for. Aty nine times out of
one hundred those gloves would have broken, But there seems
to be the hundredth times. See if the phone's working, said,
call the bar compartment and ask them to report we're
making water here. Lights must plates must have been showing
(14:00):
the rivets.
Speaker 16 (14:00):
Someway, I sir, Control call out compartment Control calling Bowel compartment,
Bowers Compartment, report to control Bowel Compartment, reports to control,
Ball Compartments.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
And reports are, try the engine room. That Chie's still alive.
Having come forward, I say.
Speaker 11 (14:25):
Control, calling engine.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Room, engine room, go ahead, control what's.
Speaker 11 (14:31):
The dope back there? Chief?
Speaker 7 (14:32):
All hands safe, making some water but not much?
Speaker 11 (14:37):
All hands safe, answer, Tell him to come forward, I sir,
Captain's orders. All hands at come forward, understood, understood? What
the devil happened to us?
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Pullman that can come back? Why didn't trustle take it easy?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Johnny?
Speaker 8 (15:00):
There was no depth to charge. We had a mile?
Oh oh, must the nose right up into it? Bows?
Probably a mess that writes we all ought to be
dead lucky? I am, yeah, I suppose we are.
Speaker 10 (15:21):
Now.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
All we gotta do is get out of this crip.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
That does seem the logical thing to do. And Johnny,
I think it'd be wiser if we observed the formella
was a rank. We're in a tough spot, and it
might set a better example for the man. You understand, understood, sir,
very well, Lieutenant. We'll try to control room. Hatch Harson.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
And General Grew reporting, sir, how'd.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
You get that cut? Chief? Don't know how I got it, Susan.
How our things are? We've got to blow out of here, sir,
one of the plates to buckled. How much water so far?
It's knee deep, sir. We can't shut the water tight door.
Spuckled out of blind if the water reaches batter no
chee glory. We can't blow out of there. We hit
(16:10):
a mine. Oh you haven't got any ball. That's not
dam Tannigan.
Speaker 11 (16:17):
Almost one hundred feet there.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
That's what we're up against. Chief to her hatches cancer.
No wait to open the short of blowing it.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Loose at bower. Hatches out of the question, and you
can try the stern hatch. We'll ever get out of here.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
The tenant. Go up in the conning tower and see
if it's all there, right, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
H h.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Then mh.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
I have had no penny for the sake of the majority.
I'll shoot any man who pennies. We're going to get
out of here, but it's going to take guts nerves.
We're going to get out. I was the third hatch, Hannigan.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
It won't open, sir, very well.
Speaker 9 (17:20):
Lieutenant Viter is examining the conning tower. We're bringing escape line.
Make it fast down here. We'll float it to the surface.
When we open the conning tower hatch. Go after the
gear of the turn escape hatch, Hannigan, and bring it here.
(17:41):
How does the Conning tower look?
Speaker 8 (17:42):
The pennant all sounds. He's not making water anywhere I
could see, so thank you.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Attendant Michael's is go aft and open the stern torpedo
tubes and let in the sea.
Speaker 11 (17:54):
Isac.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
You can't do it, Skipper. You can't open the Conning
Tower hatch. You've got a one hundred feet of Japanese
sea on top of you. We've got to do it.
All the other hatches are jammed. Feel their way out,
but it's impossible. You can't do it. You can't raise
that against the weight and pressure of the sea. We'll
have to try anyway.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
We've got to raise the pressure inside the squid to
a point where it nearly matches the pressure outside. That's
why I voted the stern opedo to its open. We'll
be ready for it in a minute, Adigan, man, I
want volunteers. Go open the Conning tower.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Hed Gen Invider.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
You will take Williams, Marvin, Rofino, and Swinson open the
Conning Tower hetch whatever I got s.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Come on, man, he's a minute.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
I comes as open to Stein topedo too, I don't
know myself. I'll hide the water will go. All hands
put on moms and lunds. Stand by the tank broxygen
and they can take over the stood. Everybody listen carefully.
We're only one hundred feet deep here. You've all been
that deep in the tank in New London. You all
(19:12):
know there's enough oxygen in the moms and land and
take you to the surface from this depth in easy stages.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
Be sure the clip is tight on your nose and
grab the mouth piece with your teeth and you'll be
all right.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
The volunteer crew will attempt to open the hatch. If
it opens, the sea will pour it. For God say,
keep your heads stand still in line. The life line
will shoot to the surface first. The volunteers will go
up the line first, ascending slowly, pausing is the proper edivals.
If you shoot topside all at once, you'll die. Your
(19:45):
runs a first.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
I just don't no panic. Men, one by one, plenty
of time, lots.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
Of life in the moms, and if you don't lose
your nerves. If one man loses his nerve, we may
kill us all. After the volunteers enlisted men, then petties,
followed by the officers and the master understood. Any questions.
What happens when we get top side, sir? That's sorry
(20:15):
about that. When we get there, will.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
The ship filled completely?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Sir?
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Possibly not. I don't know.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
We've got to build up pressure in here in order
to get the hatch open. You've got to try and
match the pressure outside, and we'll never get it open
any more questions, Lieutenant Mighter, get your group busy as oder.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
Follow me.
Speaker 11 (20:38):
Man, I'm saying with a big flat top we knocked
off set.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
I'm sure it was the Kagy, one of the battle
cruises they consider. Are you sure we got it, sir?
Speaker 9 (20:50):
You heard our fish? Hannigan an eighteen feet. They should
have passed right under the destroyers. If we're running in
the way, I can glory be.
Speaker 11 (20:58):
This is a cheap price, web Pain. I can die
happy now, sir.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
We're not dead yet, Hannigan not by alongside a turn
Puffio to the open John's work, Michael, take a lung.
The lieutenant had the crew wading on the conning tower hats.
That's the way we're going to escape.
Speaker 17 (21:23):
We're not enable to open the hatch. We haven't loosened.
But who can't lift it? Against the pressure on it.
I expected that lieutenant all nonsense. Read already here, sir,
I'm going to open the forward.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
Water tight door. We'll be flooded.
Speaker 9 (21:36):
When I give the command, start your crew again on
the hatch understune starts.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
If you're none of us.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
Bad, your cooner's get going on that hatch for all
your work. The minute I give the command, I get oh,
you meant here, line up with the ladder. Don't move
out of line. Michaels I said, you'll go up the
ladder and hand the life line the lieutenant Vider, I said,
m h, Lieutenant, Fighter Minkles is bringing you the lifeline.
(22:05):
When you see bloods and you open the hatch, you
will let the.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
Life line go up. The man who are with you
will send the line one at a time. You will
then descend the ladder and kick my hand twice if
all's clear. So I understand that.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
After I get the old clear from a lieutenant, I'll
punch each man's arm twice when I want him to
start up the mine.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Understood. Bompson's on all and again break open the bow door.
Speaker 11 (22:45):
I was king that fighter.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Remember, man, I'll.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Punch your arms twice when it's your turn.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
No one is to go out of time, your.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
Feeling sleep flying?
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Johnny?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Right here, stepper, where's Hennigan? Right here?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
How about Michael the chief here?
Speaker 11 (23:33):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Right is rains here just as we.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
How many all told Johnny.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Sorry, it's to doctor see could you huging and captain?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And also because you.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
May be saying prayer for all of us, Yes, Hennighan,
our heavenly father, we thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And thy deliberance.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Did have blessed those who loved and were loved by
the others, and to comfort them with the knowledge that
they entered into Thy heavenly kingdom in the way they
would have wished it, fighting for their country and for the.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Amen.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Amen, Amen, Amen.
Speaker 11 (24:24):
And thank you sir. They'll be resting easier now.
Speaker 18 (24:52):
Almost favored, for I can see some seagulls. If it's
a nipsey us, the other men will be the lucky ones.
Speaker 11 (25:02):
Gluck, sir, to the north.
Speaker 18 (25:05):
It's it's a sea horse, by all that's holy.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Poor it's Red Wilson and the seahorse.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Good old Red Hannigan.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Hi, sir, can you still make a signal with your flashlights? Hi?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Sir?
Speaker 11 (25:18):
Shall I said, request assistance.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
No signal is standing in the danger SIGNALIM is a
minefield here. Identify as the squid survivors, but signal them
not to take the chance of losing his chip by
picking us up.
Speaker 17 (25:43):
What's all this about?
Speaker 19 (25:44):
Flashlight signals to the south poson message just completed, sir,
squid survivors minefield, the skipper says, make no attempt to rescue.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Pall the devil with that kind of stuff. Hoist the
raft Poson, pick up those men. We'll bring them back.
We won't get back ourselves.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
The hospitality of my.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Shift to you, Commander Hayden, Thank you, Commander Wilson, Oh Paul,
you lucky son of a sun.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Very red.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
All we did was spoke a mind to mine. Wow,
I know what I saw, and I saw everything, and
me sitting for the northeast corner of that bay while
those babies ran for the.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
South ball Dolly, Paul, what a picture with me.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
It broke my heart not to be able to get
a couple in because I didn't there broke one of
the can the chase you of her of hitting you?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Did I get her? Did I get the carrier?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Did you get her?
Speaker 7 (26:41):
You got all seven hundred feet of her.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
She was a furnace from one end of the other.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Tell me more, rad, I never listened to sweet a musica.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
You smacked her midships, and you smacked ther at, and
she lighted up the bay all the way to Yokohava.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
She sank in seven minutes flat, and I nearly balled.
Speaker 19 (26:56):
I was so jealous, Sir, Yes, enemy aircraft approaching from their.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Verywell take her down, I sir, Well, come on, Papa hidden, Let's.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Flip the quickly to the future admiral of yours. What
message received about an hour ago? Paul eight pounds nine ounces.
Both Mary and Paul Rynder Jr. Doing nicely, All read red.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Let's go below.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Paul, You're wet and cold, and I'm ready to collect.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
That bed you have heard.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Richard Sayle short story off Tokyo Bay, adapted for Author's
Playhouse by Jack Mitchell and directed by Frank Path. Carl
Weber was heard as Lieutenant Commander Paul Hayden. The score
(28:03):
was composed and conducted by doctor Roy Shield. Next Wednesday,
same time, same station, Author's Playhouse will bring you W. C.
Simpson's story of life on the Mississippi River Captain Author's
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