tugs around? I've been there many times over several decades and I saw plenty of tugs! I was on the HANCOCK in 1970-71 and we tied up at the same wharf shown in the film--using tugs! Yokosuka had tugs back when the movie was filmed.
I recall the great film "Bridges at Toko-Ri" (Sp?)
There is a scene when they are moving the Essex class CV alongside a wharf (Yokosuka), using the prop aircraft lined up to move the ship. The air group commander-CAG-was complaining to the admiral that this used up valuable aircraft engine time. Way back then, this must have really got the aviators pissed at the black shoe crew of the CV.
I can't remember which ship, but there was a USN WW II aircraft carrier which had to be moored at harbor without an available tugboat, and the captain ordered all the planes on the flight deck to be died down tight and then to have their engines run with the propellers in maximum power position, to move the ship sideways (no thrusters on carriers back then). Is this what you are referring to?
Name the largest (and perhaps only) USN ship to have been propelled by aviation propeller engines (no joke).
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