Well, we all thought McConnaughey was a pile of shit in 2000 didn't we? U-110 and HMS Bulldog The real life stories of the capture of U-boats and their coding equipment are exciting enough without embellishing the stories with Hollywood glitter | There are the mandatory depth-charge scenes--which I generally like, but in this film there's one after another after another |
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I already mentioned the torpedo near-misses | Another incredibly tense fight commences between the U-571 and the German destroyer, with the submarine taken below and the destroyer depth charging the U-boat |
I've seen enough blood to know that it's surprisingly bright red when fresh, but this goop is candy-apple red.
12One character mentions sinking in a test dive | Moffet 35 and 5 abandoned ship into two lifeboats and three rafts, except for the master who was killed |
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On board U-571 the German skipper gets loose and tries to sabotage the engines of the U-boat but is caught and re-secured | She had not, until her loss, suffered any casualties to her crew during her entire career |
The 2000 French-American World War II movie, U-571, shows a fictionalized account of American Navy forces capturing an intact German U-boat, a coup reminiscent of the U-559 incident and certain other U-boat related incidents such as the capture of U-110 and the retrieval of code materials and the capture of U-505.
4Kapitänleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, the skipper of U-110, did not succeed in reaching his submarine, allegedly shot in the water by British machine gunners according to a submarine crewman | The plot is fictional and portrays a German submarine boarded by American submariners to capture her |
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Between September and December, U-571 was probably being overhauled in a drydock as no mention of the boat for that time period appears in war diary kept by the German Commander in Chief, Submarines, Admiral | The tanker SS Pennsylvania Sun, torpedoed by U-571 on 15 July 1942 was saved and returned to service in 1943 The whole crew of J |
U-571 surfaces heavily damaged and begins to flood, unable to fire its last torpedo.
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