Saturday Is Old Radio Day - "Leiningen vs the Ants" (1948)

Friday Film: "Okinawa" (1952)

Hollywood film about Navy support for the landings and Okinawa fight. If you want to know about operations within close air range of an enemy nation, this is one version.

Saturday Is Old Radio Day - "Poetry Mix-up" Our Miss Brooks (1949)

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Reports, 9 April - 7 May 2025

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Friday Film: "Kamikaze Attack" (1945)

For over 80 years, the U.S. Navy has struggled with defending its ships from suicide attacks from the air from both manned (kamikaze) and unmanned aircraft (missiles and drones). During the WWII Okinawa invasion, the problem reached dramatic levels.

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Reports, 2 - 30 April 2025

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Saturday (and often Sunday) Is Old Radio Day: Sam Spade "The Mad Scientist Caper" (1948)

Friday Film: The Battle of the Virginia Capes

The sea battle that was crucial to the success of the American Revolution

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Reports, 19 March - 16 April 2025 and 26 March -23 April 2025

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day: Jack Benny "Snow White and the Seven Gangsters" (1938)

Friday Film: Underwater Explosives "Close Is Near Enough" (1974)

Saturday Is Old Radio Day: The Whistler "Death Has a Thirst" (1942)

Friday Film on Saturday: "Seven Sailors" (1968)

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 12 March - 9 April 2025

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day: "Foreign Correspondent" Academy Award Theater (1946)

Joseph Cotten subbing for Joel McCrae

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 5 March - 2 April 2025

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Friday Film: "Men of Polaris" (1963)

Saturday Is Old Radio Day: "Second Class Passenger" Escape (1948)

Friday Film: Royal Navy "Catapult Ships" (1940)

One way to get air cover or air scouting during a contested transit.

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 26 February - 26 March 2025

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day- "The Communist Menace" from Standby for Crime (1953)

Friday Film: "Naval Customs and Courtesies: Good Manners in Uniform" (1957)

Saturday Is Old Radio Day: Duffy's Tavern - "Guest Brace Breemer the Lone Ranger" (1943)

Friday Film: "Integrated Operational Intelligence System: Navy Reconnaissance Mission Planning and Intelligence Data Flow" (1967)

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 12 February - 12 March 2025

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day - "The Hard Way Out" The Adventures of Philip Marlowe (1947)

Friday Film: "Greyhounds of the Sea" (1967)

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 5 February -5 March 2025

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day - "When the Machines Went Mad" from 2000 Plus (1950)

Friday Film: ""Down to the Wire" US Navy Carrier Landing Training (1970s)

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 29 January - 26 February 2025

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day: "The Thing on the Fourble Board" Quiet Please (1948)

One of the all time best radio horror pieces. A"fourble board" is a platform 80 feet or more above the floor of an oil rig.

Friday Film: "Replenishment at Sea" (1965)

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 22 January - 19 February 2025

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day - Suspense "This Was a Hero" (1946)

Friday Films: "The DEW Line Story" (1958) and the US Navy Role in Cold War Early Warning

As set forth in Guarding the Cold War Ramparts: The U.S. Navy's Role in Continental Air Defense, the U.S. Navy played a signifcant role in early warning defensive measures.This effort included aircraft, radar picket destroysers, and converted Liberty ships classified as AGRs. These ships were part of the "Guardian-class". Some of the aircraft included modifed Constellation airplanes, the EC-121D "Warning Star". Interesting times.

USS Guardian (AGR-1)

Navy EC-121

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day - Mel Blanc Show "Efficiency Expert" (1946)

Friday Film: Collision at Sea - "I Relieve You, Sir!" (1969)

Navy training film. Danger at sea never sleeps.

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 8 January - 5 February 2025

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day: X Minus One "The Vital Factor" (1955)

Friday Film: "Flight Safety: Landing Accidents" (1946)

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 1- 29 January 2025

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day: The Man From Homicide "The Harold Winthrop Case (Audition)" (1950)

Friday Film: "Challenge from Below" (late 1950's or early 1960's)

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 25 December 2024 - 22 January 2025

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Saturday (or Sunday) Is Old Radio Day: Dragnet "The Big Bible" (1954)

Friday Film: ASW "Close is Near Enough" (1974)

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 18 December 2024 - 15 January 2025

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Saturday (Sometime Sunday) Is Old Radio Day: Abbot & Costello "Lou Wants to Join the Merchant Marine" (1945)

Friday Films- All by himself? -"MacArthur Liberates Manila" and "Marines Invade Iwo Jima" (1945)

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 11 December 2024 - 8 January 2025

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day - "The Navigator" from Ceiling Unlimited (1942)

Friday Film: US Navy ASW "Sonobuoy Indicator Group AN/AQA-1 Operation"

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 27 November - 25 December 2024

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U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 20 November - 18 December 2024

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Saturday (or Sunday) Is Old Radio Day: Green Hornet "Citizenship Insurance Racket" (1938)

Friday Films - 6 Navy Training Classics, Including "Kingsbury Thrust Bearings" and 5 More!

Six, yes, six U.S.Navy Training Films for a total of 1 hour and 54 minutes of training excitement: 

•  Kingsbury thrust bearings (MN 8478) (1957) 
• Weapons locating radar AN/TPQ-31 (MH-10986A) (1971)
•  Basic celestial concepts (MN-10780D) (1971) 
• Guided missiles. History (MN 9161a) (1951) 
• Land the landing force (MN-10226) (1967) 
• Tracking the threat (35798DN) (1982).