The Silent Service is an American syndicatedanthologytelevision series based on actual events in the submarine section of the United States Navy. The Silent Service was narrated by Rear AdmiralThomas M. Dykers, who retired from the Navy in 1949 after twenty-two years of service. He began each episode with this refrain: "Tonight, we bring you another thrilling episode of Silent Service stories, of warfare under the sea."
Many of the episodes focused on the history of specific submarines, including:
Tommo Inc. purchased the rights to this game and digitally publishes it through its Retroism brand in 2015.
Gameplay
Silent Service is set in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, with the player assuming control of a United Statessubmarine for various war patrols against Japanese shipping ("Silent Service" was a nickname for the US Navy's submarine force in the Pacific during WWII).
The game allows the player to choose when to attack and a whole range of realistic tactics are available, including the End Around as well as near invisibility at night (if the sub's profile is kept to a minimum). The game's realism was hampered by the simulation's inability to handle more than four projectiles at a time. This was particularly troublesome when battling multiple destroyers, since the submarine would not be able to fire if four torpedoes were already in the water.
Tommo Inc. purchased the rights to this game and digitally publishes it through its Retroism brand in 2015.
Gameplay
Silent Service II allows the player to choose either single scenarios (training, a single historical battle, or a single random encounter war patrol) or an extended war career.
In the career mode the player undertakes a number of consecutive patrols in the submarine, meeting other ships or convoys in unscripted encounters generated by the game. The player is able to select a home port and a patrol area on a map of the Pacific Ocean, and time acceleration allowed the submarine to move quickly to the chosen area. The length of each patrol was limited by the submarine's available fuel, but a typical war career could still take several hours of play time to complete.
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The coming change could prove critical in the most frightening – and increasingly likely – contingency ... In all three navies, the submarine force is traditionally known as “the SilentService,” due to their habit of never disclosing what they’re doing.
) An undersea medical officer's tale from the SilentService... services needed to keep the submariners healthy and the boat operational ... An Undersea medical officer's tale from the Silent Service.
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The SilentService (2024) Season 1 is a tense series about the suspicious collision of a Japanese and a US nuclear submarine ... Is The Silent Service (2024) Season 1 available to watch via streaming?.
While I did not have the opportunity to serve in the SilentService, I have always held in the highest respect the 52 boats and crews who were lost, and on eternal patrol in WW II, the USS Scorpion...
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