more scenarios on the road and they should also be able to drive on the road that they have never seen before. watch "the communicators" monday night at 8 p.m. eastern. >> next "american history tv's 1945, "thea," from negro sailor." at afall is drafting civilian jobs through boot camp and assignment in the pacific. completed after the surrender of japan, the film elevates teamwork, diversity, and the accompaniments of distinguished african-american sailors. this was restored by the national american archives.

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>> got your newspapers today. i got you guys newspapers today. got you guys newspapers today. you know bill? >> is this all that? >> i delivered them in a p 38. sports.robbins, oh, is he in now? thanks. >> who is that? >> the boss. >> hello, this is frank robbins. i have a great idea for a new column. yes sir, i will be in right away. >> i got newspapers today. >> you make a good soldier. >> he wants to get in the navy. ♪

>> come in. >> hello, frank. >> hello, mr. weldon. >> the servicemen's column i have been doing once a week, i think this new one would be better. it has a different slant. sports are pretty close to your heart, are they? >> yes. >> what is the most -- most thing sports have in common? >> teamwork. >> exactly, teamwork. and the complete democracy of it. and the fact that a man is measured only by his ability and skill. >> yes, that is right. you have seen some great white teams and some with both negroes and whites as teammates. i want to write a column about a great team like that. i have tickets to something interesting this afternoon. come with me and i will show you. >> i would like to, but i am

busy. >> you are not that busy. it is important. >> i suppose i could. come in. hello, bill. mymr. weldon, i got induction papers. >> so they finally arrived. we will certainly miss you. >> i would like a couple of days off. there is things i would like to do before i leave. >> take as many days as you want. >> could you spare a couple of hours? i think you could help me sell something. three is better than two. >> where at? >> secret. tell you at 2:00. >> 18, 94, 36.

[shouting and cheering] ♪ >> a great team. that is teamwork and action. they are fighting together for one goal. i will tell you of a much better team, one playing in the most important game of all. that team is united states navy. that is the team i hope to get on. if you make it, bill, you are in there with bob and tony, pedro and lee and joe. all of them fighting together. that is the kind of teamwork i would like to make my column. >> that is a good idea. let's call it, "on the navy team." >> build made the navy team all right. i got the column started right

at the end of the game. bill johnson was and still is my best correspondent. i wanted to see things are his eyes. i wanted the history of what actually happened to bill. his first letter came shortly after he arrived at boot camp. he found that it was not easy when they take all your clothes away everything but your toothbrush and ship them home and put you alone in an assembly line and trekkie -- check you for everything. there were thousands of all races and creeds. this is not easy, either. ouch. two down and seven to go. he found shopping quite easy in the navy. ♪

in the old days, it used to pick -- taken longer to pick a new suit. it was hard to make up his mind if you want the browns do with the small checks or the gray suit with the stripes, but nothing to worry about now. here everything is in standard colors and patterns, blue with white stripes, white with blue stripes. and the salesman behind the counter will never take no for an answer. never again will he received clothing and everything that goes with it in 20 minutes. >> you are members of a new company, company 510, and by the is the finest10 set of knuckleheads ever to hit google -- boot camp. line, it willt of be personal. orders.ntion and obey you shave and shower every day.

keep your clothes washed and rolled. you major bumps up. get on the ball and stay on it. >> company 510 got on the ball but had difficulty staying on it. the drill is not mastered in a day. >> left march. >> oops, the man said to the rear. >> dawes rolls -- those roles. those roles. to tie atter learn square knot, sailor. most of these are grannies. i don't see any.

ensign? n >> you are. the flag. both of you are. it means a commissioned officer. it also means the flag, sir. >> bill never worked so hard in his life. up at 5:00, and every day on the go. he soon found the training for this team is tough, got to be. the game is too important to lose. ♪ 510.adually company squared away and the chief stopped calling them knuckleheads. they began to act navy, think maybe and look navy. look navy.vy and ♪ tough.asn't all

a bigwas ship service and hunk of cake and three scoops of ice cream for just $.15. and noise, you have never been in noise until you have been in a ship service. there was ping-pong. hour, which wasn't so happy for some guys. was some work that wasn't so tough. it did not tie in with physical fitness and seamanship, but it was, and who could refuse an invitation to the dance? another thing bill found out was that the navy has rules, and navy rules must not be broken. first of all, these rules apply to everybody. you could land in the break. at his navy discipline.

discipline.avy it is all about teamwork. tilde not like swabbing decks, but he had company. andwas swabbing decks too, pedro had time to think it over while old lee at a course in sweeping, and he never forgot his painting method. brig,that trip to the bill got wise. he found by reading articles from the united states navy that being a member of the navy team means certain real responsibilities not only for him but all the rest from recruits to the very top. else, found out something something that opened his eyes to real teamwork, something about stewart's mates and their place on the team. stewart made first class, usn, for his distinguished devotion

to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard for personal safety during the attack on pearl harbor december 7, 1941, the navy cross. madet h oliver, stewart first class, usn, for gallantry serving aboard a warship during a raid on that vessel by approximately 25 japanese planes in the vicinity of the solomon islands june 1942, the silver star medal. cook thirdked me, class, usn for extraordinary heroism while serving on the uss enterprise, during engagement with japanese naval forces to the santa cruz islands october 26, 1942, the navy cross. harmon, stewart's made first class usn, for extraordinary heroism while

serving aboard the uss san francisco during action against enemy japanese forces over the solomon islands area november 12 and 131942, the navy cross. a fighting ship named for a fighting man. and there were hundreds of others like this lad on the franklin who got a job to do and did it. i thought stewart's mates were just waiters. you might call them that, but they are fighting men too. their work is rather dull, but someone has to do it, a cook or a storekeeper. everybody can't be captain. you get this ship to where she is ready for the job she was billed for. when you are there in battle, what you did before doesn't count anymore. what matters now is what you doing battle, like your ship. that is your main job fighting. believe me, when it comes to fighting, the stewart's are

right in their with the rest of them. you bet it is. because their primary job is fighting, their instruction includes companionship recognition. ship compartment haitian and gunnery. andompartmentation gunnery. ♪ >> i am glad you told me all that, sir. makes me proud just to be anywhere on the team. >> johnson, don't forget us about stewart's mates. they might be far from battle, but they can be the best of them. >> so now company 510, u.s. fighting navy men are known longer recruits. the tough weeks have been lived through. they learned the basic rules of the game. now some will report to general

service duty while others specialized in other service groups. 510 will be scheduled -- scattered far and wide as men take various careers. they will take a special career on the team for the big play the head. bill reports to quartermaster training at the naval training school in virginia. ♪ [anchors away] >> he thought pretty good about hampton, because training for quartermaster was a step up on the team. and received a brief outline of particular rules in hampton. this chance for bill had hoped for, but you don't graduate just for hoping, you have to earn it.

♪ justtil now, our boy was floating around in the water, but they will soon learn there are quite a few different types of boys, each with a different purpose. you have to become as million with them as his own name. them as hisar with own name. he learned how to make aviation compensations, how to navigate by [indiscernible] and how to product course. make curio barometers, how to set it, how to take readings, a barometer is a sailors watchdog. use --ll also used to learned use the engine room telegraph. this training ship, bill and his shipmates put to actually

use what they have learned in classes. >> easy now. just a touch, right rudder. that's it. here is your rudder. that's fine. >> wild bill is on his way to becoming a quartermaster, other bills, tony's, pedro's are on their way to becoming radio men, , aviationetal smiths , gunners mates and other specialists, and getting ready to take their places.

signaling. mine sweeping. along with 1001 other jobs that go to make up the navy team. ♪

>> this photographers made to where the purple heart has flown many missions over the pacific, doing math work over hazardous conditions. when completed, these mosaic maps furnished one of the most important factors in battle planning. this commands a navy oiler. and this chaplain councils and advises the boards on many subjects. while these waves have released men for duty in combat areas.

the next time i heard from bill, it seems he had been ordered to duty aboard a destroyer manned by a predominantly negro crew. >> right, 10 degrees right. >> right, 10 degrees rudder, sir. go.tudy as you >> steady as you go, sir. >> come right to 084. >> right to 084, sir. bail is on the first team now and ready to go into the game along with these boys on the number three gun. johnson lions and lookout and with arsenal, , and dos mate first

fall, signalman first who can count across the water with light, and the gang that can smell trouble a long way off, and radio men coleman, electricians mate bail, chief motorist machinist mate smith and solomon thompson who can listen or tell you whether it is a shark or a sub or just a lonely mermaid. these and more on the same team with bill. >> all hands, manned your battle stanchions. all hands, manual battle stations. >> it may be battle were only a practice, you can never tell. -- or only a practice. you can never tell. >> all engines ahead flank. >> all engines ahead flank, sir. >> all engines ahead at the

flank, sir. >> very well. come right to 110. >> right to 110, sir. ♪

>> bill and the boys are throwing up a lot of stuff out there, like the quarterback who kicked the goal. someone has to pass them the ball. be aavy would only collection of harmless ships if it were not for the men who furnished the guns of their fleets, the tremendous flashing cards, every plane in the air depends on men of the ordinance battalions. these are positions about to be filled by dynamite mixed of did ingredients. doctors of document -- dynamite have good training. ♪

>> and their prescriptions come in all size and shapes. possibleo this make it to do this and this. ♪ cruisereammates on some will welcome these projectiles and speed them on their way. while the 14 and 16 inch shells are destined for a battleship to help knock off the battle -- the enemy. yes, every sailor plays a position to make this team the greatest navy in the world. this is the result of teamwork, moving in for the payoff and the biggest game of all, battle and invasion. here on these ships of the apa, on the ata, on the aka, on the ao, and all the other ships of the fleet, here the sailors like

the bill johnson's, here serve eager electricians mates, radio men, stewart's mates, porter masters, yeoman and all the other required to make of this great team. ♪ >> after the landing comes the seabees, building roads behind the japs, flight 9 -- flattening of the jungle with bulldozers, putting on air strips in a hurry.

often they have to take time out to dodge damage. and to send it back. made allll johnson's the navy teams. they were there at the end of the first half, and these german u-boats surrendered in the atlantic. they were there at the finish in the pacific. yes, they made all the navy teams, this one, and this one too.

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