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Crash Dive (1943) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Archie Mayo and produced by Milton Sperling and Lee S. Marcus.

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This romantic adventure, set during WWII, features two Navy men vying for the love of the same woman. While heading to Washington, Lieutenant Ward Stewart meets teacher Jean Hewlitt, quickly falls for her, and eventually succeeds in gaining her affection. However, Lieutenant Stewart soon discovers that his new girlfriend is already engaged to his commanding officer. Further complications develop when both officers get assigned to the same submarine and must set off together on a dangerous mission to destroy a Nazi base.

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This movie's opening prologue states: "The cooperation and assistance of the officers and men of the U.S. Navy submarine base, New London, Connecticut, is gratefully acknowledged."

Background shots for this movie were filmed at the United States Navy's Naval Submarine Base New London situated at New London, Conneticut.

Final film for Tyrone Power prior to entering military service as a private. He is credited in the film as as Tyrone Power U.S.M.C.R. On 1 October 1942, Power was allowed to defer the start of his military duties in order to complete production on this movie which did not finish shooting until mid-November 1942. Power did not star in another movie until 1946 when he appeared in The Razor's Edge. At the time of Power's death in 1958, he was a Major in the United States Marine Corps Reserves.

John Payne and Randolph Scott were originally set to star.

The US Navy provided naval equipment and allowed access to their fleet of submarines and also supplied service personnel.

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