What happens
Lieutenant Commander Roberts and Lieutenant Masterman command the destroyer USS Warren, recommissioned after the Pearl Harbor attack and sent to join a convoy. Their ship picks up a lifeboat carrying two women and twenty babies, and the crew must improvise care for them aboard a warship. Admiral Stephen Thomas, commanding the convoy, follows the messages from the Warren with growing exasperation. The series is Screen Guild Theater, and this 1943 broadcast of Stand By For Action stars Charles Laughton, Brian Donlevy and Chester Morris, adapted from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film.
The Pacific Ocean in the early months after Pearl Harbor, aboard the destroyer USS Warren and the cruiser Chattanooga.
Characters: Admiral Stephen Thomas, Lieutenant Commander Roberts, Lieutenant Masterman, Lindsey, Dr. Stone, Mrs. Collins
Listen for: Masterman's reluctant care of the babies aboard the Warren, and the radio messages between the Warren and Admiral Thomas's flagship.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.