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Up Periscope
1959 · Film · 112 min
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.
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Tangent coming!
This reminded me of the book "Up Periscope", which I read as a kid, about a frogman during WWII using a sub to infiltrate a Japanese camp to photograph a code book.
I remember it talked about the then-new diving technology. I thought it was SCUBA. It was Aqua-Lung; verified with a checked out copy at https://archive.org/details/upperiscope00whit/page/150/mode/2up?q=lung .
Turns out that book is based on the movie. ('Garner called the film "another piece of crap that Warner Bros. stuck me in while I was under contract."' says Wikipedia.)
And Aqua-Lung wasn't available until after WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua-Lung
Guess the book wasn't that accurate.
I enjoyed it when I was 12 or so.