00:00:00:13 00:00:04:11 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: You are listening to CBS correspondent Charles Collingwood doing a 00:00:04:12 00:00:08:10 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: description of a film record of the landing craft in Cherbourg 00:00:08:11 00:00:11:07 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: Harbor. We return you now to the point of broadcast. 00:00:11:08 00:00:16:05 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: CBS engineer Jane Ryder and Irene Commander John Barclay's, 00:00:16:06 00:00:20:01 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: PGA Board and we're racing across the bay, told us that it's nothing 00:00:20:02 00:00:24:21 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: like morning by not racing to the rescue of a stricken ship. 00:00:24:22 00:00:29:08 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: We just got notification by radio that has never been lost and we 00:00:29:09 00:00:32:15 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: are carrying along the broken water to this up. 00:00:32:16 00:00:36:01 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: We can be ahead of it now. This is not a concern at all. 00:00:36:02 00:00:39:03 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: Around here, there are small craft women that dashing across the 00:00:39:04 00:00:41:01 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: water to come to make the rescue. 00:00:41:02 00:00:44:17 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: We're carrying along here. The noise is absolutely incredible. 00:00:44:18 00:00:48:03 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: Behind them is the Great White Way and up in front of us. 00:00:48:04 00:00:53:04 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: There is this ship down at the start of a flare up, rearing up like 00:00:53:05 00:00:57:19 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: like a head of a speck of the heart and all around 00:00:57:20 00:01:02:11 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: our small boat. Of all this, just picking up the survivors 00:01:02:12 00:01:07:12 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: on either side of us and behind us are other people scraping 00:01:07:13 00:01:12:05 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: along with us at an absolutely tremendous pace to come here and save 00:01:12:06 00:01:14:13 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: as many lives as we possibly can. 00:01:14:14 00:01:17:22 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: We're approaching the ship now. We're still not quite close enough 00:01:17:23 00:01:21:23 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: to see the survivor, but we're going to go in there right along and 00:01:21:24 00:01:25:20 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: try to pick up as many as we possibly can from the ship that has 00:01:25:21 00:01:26:23 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: been hit by a mine. 00:01:29:24 00:01:34:01 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: All going very slowly, feeling our way through the waters, looking 00:01:34:02 00:01:38:09 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: for any possible survivors that may be here, but many other ships 00:01:38:10 00:01:42:13 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: have gone before us. We've run 10 miles on this mission of rescue. 00:01:42:14 00:01:46:08 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: There goes our own warning. The small craft is in front of us and 00:01:46:09 00:01:50:19 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: we're moving up out of the ship, which is down in the 00:01:50:20 00:01:55:05 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: water here, looking around as so many other small craft about us are 00:01:55:06 00:01:59:08 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: doing or as many survivors as we can possibly pick up. 00:01:59:09 00:02:03:11 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: We're going along now. So far we can't see any but looking over on 00:02:03:12 00:02:07:25 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: some of the other ships, we can see the men on the deck shivering 00:02:08:00 00:02:11:24 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: and cold in their wet garments that have just been picked up out of 00:02:12:00 00:02:16:12 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: the sea here. Men are looking through their glasses at the water 00:02:16:13 00:02:20:08 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: was coming along very close. Now there's smoke all around us here 00:02:20:09 00:02:24:02 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: and a great accumulation, a great accumulation of ships, 00:02:25:03 00:02:29:10 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: all of which have come to try and do whatever we can for the crew 00:02:29:11 00:02:33:08 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: and any other men which may have been aboard. 00:02:33:09 00:02:37:01 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: I might as well tell you that this is off one of our beaches. 00:02:37:02 00:02:39:09 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: I don't think that that would violate security. 00:02:39:10 00:02:43:10 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: It's off one of our beaches. And all the ships that have come in 00:02:43:11 00:02:47:20 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: here bringing in the supplies to the army in France have come out 00:02:47:21 00:02:51:08 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: here from all around to pick up as many as we can. 00:02:51:09 00:02:53:17 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: We're going right by the ship now. 00:02:53:18 00:02:58:13 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: We can see our seas overrun or port side and down at the stern 00:02:58:14 00:03:03:00 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: with the wreckage of the terrible pieces of wreckage which always 00:03:03:01 00:03:06:18 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: accompany the sinking of a ship. She's wobbling now as she thinks 00:03:06:19 00:03:11:04 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: further down in the water. There's our lifeboat and boxes of bits of 00:03:11:05 00:03:15:24 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: things all around, and here are two more feature boats which are 00:03:16:00 00:03:19:07 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: with us over here doing whatever they can. 00:03:19:08 00:03:22:22 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: There's no sign of life at all on the ship, except this this 00:03:22:23 00:03:26:15 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: bubbling Geisler like motion back. 00:03:26:16 00:03:30:01 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: It was gone. There goes the ship further down. 00:03:30:02 00:03:32:02 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: It's sinking all the while very quickly. 00:03:32:03 00:03:37:05 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: Now, the lifeboats tragically still aren't 00:03:37:06 00:03:41:06 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: made faster. The ships are now floating, although lines are still 00:03:41:07 00:03:42:12 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: holding on to the ship. 00:03:43:15 00:03:46:17 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: It's not the Sun very quickly that goes off going under the water. 00:03:46:18 00:03:49:03 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: Now there's some steam coming up in the boiler. 00:03:49:04 00:03:51:16 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: The engines were still going. It's going down. We're right beside 00:03:51:17 00:03:54:17 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: it. We are more than 100 feet away from the ship and it's going 00:03:54:18 00:03:58:07 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: right under the water. It's going down now. And there goes the 00:03:58:08 00:04:01:04 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: Geisler of water shooting up into the air, a fault. 00:04:01:05 00:04:04:00 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: And now there's nothing left at all except the lifeboat in the 00:04:04:01 00:04:07:08 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: lifeboat is being towed under. It's still made fast to the ship. 00:04:07:09 00:04:11:22 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: The lifeboat itself, Ty Stern first is going down with 00:04:11:23 00:04:16:09 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: the ship to life. Rafts are floating now and the wreckage, all 00:04:16:10 00:04:20:08 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: bits and pieces and boxes and boards and everything else around the 00:04:20:09 00:04:24:24 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: ship. And so far, we haven't seen any survivors 00:04:25:00 00:04:27:17 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: at all. They apparently have been picked up by the ship that came 00:04:27:18 00:04:30:22 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: before us. We're passing a lifeboat and there goes the last of this 00:04:30:23 00:04:35:08 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: ship bubbling up now, you know, it's quite gotten up into the 00:04:35:09 00:04:40:03 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: air as it slides underneath the sea, pulling its lifeboats with it. 00:04:40:04 00:04:42:24 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: And here it is Collingwood's last view of the sea. 00:04:45:12 00:04:48:22 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: The only thing that we can see left alive in the water is a little 00:04:48:23 00:04:52:17 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: cap. The ship's cap, which is on one of the life raft, the badly 00:04:52:18 00:04:55:22 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: rolled, the life raft right down with this ship and is floating 00:04:55:23 00:05:00:00 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: along in the water. This tiny little area cap sitting on top of the 00:05:00:01 00:05:04:03 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: life raft, probably nibbling away as loud as they can, and they're 00:05:04:04 00:05:07:20 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: finding out maybe they are part of the ship with a couple of whalers 00:05:07:21 00:05:11:01 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: and and they're racing over the life raft now, and they've got the 00:05:11:02 00:05:13:13 CHARLES COLLINGWOOD: little cat and they're taking it off to the same thing.