Men of Honor is the story of Carl Brashear, born in 1931 to sharecroppers, who joins the Navy with the goal of becoming the Navy's first African-American diver. He is inspired by the heroics of Billy Sunday, the White son of a sharecropper.
At the Bayonne, N.J., divers' training camp, Sunday becomes Brashear's instructor, but he must endure hazing that borders on the murderous. Despite Sunday and the camp's commander being against Brashear's graduation, his physical skills and steely determination, inherited from his father, help him persevere.
Carl and Billy's paths cross again when they both need rehabilitation - one from an injury, the other from bitterness. Their wives watch on with awe and frustration as their stories unfold.
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Men of Honour
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Anchors Aweigh
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Stars and Stripes Forever
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I'm in Town
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Frantic Faye Thomas:
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Sunny Side of the Mountain
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Harold Hawkshaw Hawkins:
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It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
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Half a Mind
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Morning Papers Waltz Op. 279
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Johann Strauss:
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Blue Yodel #4
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I Want You to Be My Baby
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You'll Never Know
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Say When
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I Wish It Would Rain
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Win
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I'm in Town
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Frantic Faye Thomas:
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Make Up My Mind
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Harold Hawkshaw Hawkins:
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It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
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J.D. Miller:
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You'll Never Know
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Mack Gordon:
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