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Special Assignment series called “Submarine.” The story reports on submarine warfare exercises conducted by naval reservists on Lake Michigan. This segment shows operations with the USS Sablefish (SS 303), assigned to hunt the USS Runner (SS 476). Silent footage shows preparation for undocking: Navy command arrive to board while sailors below deck are seen in the control room and getting a haircut; on deck others are stowing ropes. It then cuts to the submarine on the surface of Lake Michigan, showing a skyline of Milwaukee and the Breakwater Lighthouse. Clips then show camera angles downward onto the tip of the bow cutting through water and at a crew member looking through binoculars at a plane. T

he USS Sablefish was a US Navy submarine first introduced to the Great Lakes after the opening of the St Lawrence Seaway in 1959 and it returned to patrol in 1961 until 1967, when it was assigned to European waters. The USS Runner, a combat veteran of WW, was in the Great Lakes for naval reservist training in the summer of 1964.