they will be able to deal with a lot more scenarios on the roads than these can, and they should be able to drive on >> watch the communicators, monday at 8:00 on c-span2. join us next week on the communicators for the confusion -- for the conclusion of the series about cars and talk with each other and the road. >> next on american history tvs "the negca, from 1945, ro sailor." this follows a draftee from his civilian job at a black newspaper through boot camp. the film celebrates teamwork, diversity, and the actions of several distinguished african american sailors. this film was recently restored by the national archives.

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>> got drafted. they've got drafted first today. who? >> you know bill. whilst i've been developing up to 38? >> frank roberts, sports. izzy and now -- is he and now? thanks. the boss. this is right roberts. i would like to see you. i think i have a great idea for a new column. i will be in right away. >> jessica jeff davis today. -- bill got his draft papers today there'd he is going to be in the navy. >> that he will make a good sailor.

then he will make a good sailor. >> hello frank. ideam, what is this great -- sits down. what is this great idea? >> sports are pretty close to your heart, aren't they? what is the one thing that most folks haven't got -- have in common? >> teamwork. >> exactly, teamwork, and complete democracy. the fact that a man is measured only by his ability and skill. whitehave been great teams, and some great color teams, and some with negroes and whites as a team. i have tickets for something interesting this afternoon. come with me and i will show you

better than i can tell you. >> i am too busy. >> you are not that busy. this is important. >> well, if you think it is important, i suppose i guess i could. come in. hello bill. i got my induction papers. >> so they finally arrived. we will certainly miss you around your bill. >> i would like a couple of days off. there are some things i would like to do for mom before i leave. >> just a minute bill could you spare couple hours? i think can help me sell something. three is company, but it is better than two. ♪

[applause] >> that is teamwork in action. men fighting together for one goal. but there's one team playing in the most important game of all. that team is the united states navy. if you make it, bill, you will be right in their along with tony, pedro, lee, and joe. all of them fighting together. team work out of like to hope some a new column. vy let's call it "on the na team." >> bill made the navy team all

right. bill johnson was, and still is, my best correspondent. i wanted to see things through his eyes. sortted the column to be a of case history of what actually happened to bill. his first letter came shortly after he arrived at boot camp very he found that it was not easy when they take away all your clothes, everything but alongoothbrush, and push in an assembly line and check you for everything under the run. it wasn't easy for bill, or the thousands before him. or the thousands of all races and creeds who will come after him. ouch. two down and seven to go. he found shopping quite easy in the navy.

in the old days, it is to take him longer to get a suit. it was hard to make up a mind whether he wanted the ground suit dusty brown suit with the check, or the gray suit with besides. everything comes in standard collies and patterns -- colors and patterns. the salesman by discounter won't take no for an answer. probably never again in his life will bill receive nine suits of clothing and everything that goes with it in 20 minutes. >> your members of the new company, number 510. company 510 is about the greatest collection of men in boot camp. line, payp out of attention and obey orders. you shave and shower every day.

you keep your clothes washed and you both made up. i will show you how to do all that. now get on the ball and stay on it. company 510 got on the ball, but had a little difficulty staying on it. >> man said to the rear their. >> you had better learn to tie a square knot, sailor. >> i will see that he does, sir.

what is an ensign? >> well, you are. are.our -- both of you bill never worked so hard in his life. every minute of the day on the go. he soon found that the training was tough. it had to be. the game is too important to lose. gradually, company 510 got squared away, and their chief stopped calling them knuckleheads. they looked navy.

it wasn't all tough. their worship service, when the biggest balls and time. and noise. you never heard noise until your ventilation circus -- until you have been to a ship circus. happywas ping-pong, and hour. and there was some work that was not so tough. there was. refuse -- who could refuse an invitation to the debt? another thing bill thought out was that the navy has rules, rules that must not be broken. furthermore, these roles applied to everyone. , andis navy discipline

discipline is the foundation of teamwork. bill didn't exactly like swabbing decks, but he had company. to, andswabbing decks pedro had time to think it over. he got a course in sweeping, and he never forgot the lesson. after that trip to the brig, bill got wise. he found by reading the rules of that they were real responsibilities, and only him but for the rest up to the very top. else,nd out something something that opened his eyes to real teamwork, something about stewart's mates and their place on the team. for his distinguished

devotion to duty, extraordinary courage, and disregard for his personal safety during the attack on pearl harbor, december 7, 1941, the navy cross. oliver, first class, for gallantry was serving aboard the united states worship during a raid by approximately 25 japanese torpedo planes in the acidity of the solomon islands, the silver star medal. william think nay, cook, third class, usn, for extraordinary heroism of or the u.s. enterprise engaging japanese naval forces near the santa cruz islands on october 26, 1942. the navy cross. leonard roy harmon, stewards make, first class, usn.

for extraordinary heroism also be a part -- aboard the uss san francisco against enemy japanese forces on about the 12th and 13th, 1942. the 19 -- the navy cross. and there are hundreds of others who had a job to do and did it. >> they are fighting meant to. isween battles, their work -- everybody can't be captain of the ship. when your in battle, what you did before doesn't count. what matters now is what you do in battle. work your ship. that is your main job and believe me, when it comes to

fighting, the stewart's mates are right in there with the rest of them. >> that is real teamwork, sir. >> you bet it is. stewart's may instruction includes shipping fermentation and gunnery. >> i am glad you told me all that sir. it makes me proud just to be anywhere on the team. >> and johnson, don't forget this about store its mates -- stewart's mates. in battle, they hold it with the best of them. the navy men pass for review for the last time. been lived have through. even his buddies have learned the basic rules of the game.

for of them are ready general service duty. company 510 will be scattered far and wide as the men continued their various careers. each will take a special position of a team. bill was selected for quartermaster training at the u.s. naval training school in virginia. ♪ >> felt pretty good about hampton, because training for quartermaster was a step up on the team. the trainees are mustered and checked in, and receive the particular rules of hampton. you don't graduate just for the

hoping. you have to earn it. until now, our boy was just helping around the water. he learned that they were so .any different types of buoys he had to become as familiar with them as his own name. that was only a small part of it. among other things, bill learned how to make compensations, how to navigate by dead reckoning, and how to plot a course. have you take readings. bill also learned how to use the on thisoom telegram training ship, bill and his

shipmates look to actually use what they have learned in class. >> easy now. >> just a touch. right rudder. that's it. easier rudder. that is fine. >> is on his way to becoming a quartermaster. pedro's are bob's, on their way to become radio managers, aviation machines mates, and other specialists. they are getting ready to take

their places. , minesweeping. along with a thousand among other jobs that make up the navy .eam ♪

>> this photographer's mates who wears the purple heart has flown many missions over enemy territory in the pacific, doing matt rourke under hazardous worktions -- doing map under hazardous conditions. when completed, these mosaic maps furnished one of the most essential factors in battle planning. this skipper command the navy oiler. and this chapman councils and advises the boards of many s, while these ways have

been releasing men for combat duty. the next time i heard from bill, he wrote me that he had been honored to duty aboard a destroyer manned predominantly by a negro crew. >> 10 degrees rudder. >> 10 degrees rudder, sir. steady as you go. >> steady as you go, sir. >> come right to 084. >> right 2084. >> bill is on the first team now, and ready to go into the game, along with these boys on the number three gun. with lookouts, and arsenal

right along the job, and with , and with thet radar gang, who can smell trouble a long ways off, and and electricians come and chief motorist and thompson, who can listen and tell you whether it is a shark, a submarine, or just a lonely mermaid. these are just some of the same team with bill. >> all hands, manager battle stations. all hands, man your battle stations. >> it may be a battle, or it may be only practice. you never can tell. all engines, i had blank -- i had blank.

very well. come right to 110. >> coming rights to 110, sir. [gunshots]

>> bill and the boys are throwing up a lot of stuff out there. like the fort mac -- like the quarterback who kicks the goal, someone has to pass them the ball. the navy would only be a collection of partnerships were not for the men who manned the fleets. every ship at sea, every plane in the air, depends on the men on the ordinance battalions -- ordnance battalions. doctors of dynamite is a good name for it.

their prescriptions come in all sizes and shapes. men who do this make it possible to do this. the teammates on some cruiser will welcome these projectiles, and speed them on their way. a 14 inch and 68 shells are destined for some battleship to help knock off the enemy. every sailor plays a vital position to make his steam big -- his team the greatest navy in the world. apa's, the ships, on the on the ada's, on the aka's, on the ao's, and all the other great auxiliary ships in the

fleet, negro sailors like the bill johnson's, here's a negro electro -- electricians mate. quartermasters, yeoman, and all the other things required to man the ships that help make up the great team. [gunshots] ♪ >> after the landing come this cb's, and therefore bill johnson's, building roads, flattening the jungle, fighting with losers and tools.

often, they have to take time out to dodge death. >> so the bill johnson's made all the navy team. they were there at the end of the first half, when the german u-boat surrendered in the atlantic and they were there in the finish in the pacific. yes, they made all the navy teams.

too.one, and this one, throughout our history, americans of all races and origins have fought side-by-side in defense of their country. of thehe first battle revolution, when our country was born, to more than 180 years through all out -- 150 years, through all our wars, men like bill johnson have fought and died to bring victory to our shores. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] americane watching history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook at the span history. -- at c-span history. >> c-span, created by america's cable television companies and brought to you as a public

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