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A companion DVD to
WE WERE PIRATES
A Torpedoman's Pacific War
by
Naval Institute Press, 2009
This DVD includes over 60 minutes of video interviews with Robert Hunt, Torpedoman on the USS Tambor for 12 consecutive war patrols. In these interviews Robert Hunt provides eyewitness accounts of sighting and tracking four Japanese cruisers during the Battle of Midway; weathering a near-fatal, 17-hour depth-charging at the bottom of the East China Sea; seeing Japanese bombs fall on Wake Island in the first hours of the war and entering Pearl Harbor through the wreckage of the Japanese sneak attack, with the USS Arizona still smoking; and a variety of other topics.
Interview segments include:
Introduction
12 Patrols 4:00
Bunk as Home 1:38
Sounds 1:57
Wake to Pearl 7:47
Midway 9:49
War Diary 6:16
Depth Charging 7:19
Buddha 4:47
Tell It Like It Was 2:13
VJ Day 7:53
Total: 53:39
$23 includes shipping & handling
The DVD, produced in association with RealGood Creative (www.realgood.com), plays automatically in any DVD player. It features a navigable menu and includes music, still photographs, and video interviews with Robert Hunt.