The Enemy Below

[deepboat]

Just finished watching "The Enemy Below", and I saw something interesting. The u-boat was tracking a escort on the surface with radar but it was one with a horizontal bar and would show a "V" in the line when it scanned the target. What kind of radar is it? Or is it fictional?

[Brag]

I saw the movie, not bad but let's say a touch Holliwoodish? I would not take any details to seriously.

[Sailor Steve]

Yeah, it's one of my favorite movies, but it does have its flaws. Don't even think about comparing the 'u-boat' interior with the one from Das Boot.:dead:

[Kaptain Hans Wolf]

well i wouldent say its as hollywoodish as u-571, but it certanly is no das-boot.

[Jimbuna]

I'll always remember it for the simple reason.....a proposed type VII that managed to fire 2 stern torpedoes simultaneously :hmm:

[Oberon]

The radar set in SHII showed a dip or raise in a flat line, it's height based upon the strength of return I think. I haven't got far enough in SHIII to use radar yet, and probably wouldn't anyway due to my Sub Command/Dangerous Waters upbringing (RADAR on surface = Death), so I have no idea what SHIII radar is like...

[Chisum]

"The ennemy below" is one of my prefered because i like hollywood simplicity in the world war movie from this time. And Michum still a great actor like Jurgen.

I like also "Torpedo run" witch is the same construction.

And other movie I like is named "Operation Tirpitz"(B/W), a big and dangerous mission with pocket submarines again the Tirpizt in a fjord, many suspens.

And of course, "Run silent, run deep" with Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, a famous submarine movie. Fantastic music at the beginning too.

Don't forget "Sink the Bismarck", a must.

Das boat is very extraordinnary, very immersiv, absolutly perfect, but...to real. For me, Hollywood movies from 1950/1960 are more pleasants to watch.

For your question, i don't know but there is many mistakes and impossibilities in this movie.
For exemple, the american Captain who looks his watch to know when he must change his cap to escape the torpedo lol. Or the german kaleun always go in the 1-4-0 and never thing that the american knows that.
That's Hollywood.

;)

[Blacklight]

I love how early Hollywood made submarines look in the majority of the films and TV shows. Nice, spacious, everyone had their own room or they shared a room with a bunk mate. Everyone had perfect hair, nice clean shaven, always showered looking, never sweaty (When I watch Das Boot, I SWEAR I can smell that crew just by looking at them). Everyone was always smiling with perfect white teeth. There was so much space on that sub that I wouldn't have been surprised to see a bowling alley and a ballroom with a concert piano in there.:rotfl:

[FIREWALL]

CURT JERGENS = KOOL :|\\ :up: I also liked him in Battle of Britain.



Jon - Real Names of Famous Folk - Ju (http://www.famousfolk.com/real/names-j/jon.shtml)Curt Jurgens, Actor; Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (Solln, Bavaria, Germany 13 December 1915 - 18 June 1982). ...

Died of acute heart attack.

[Sniper_Fox]

awesome movie, i like how at the end the 2 captains work togther to save a man, nad they really make the german captain seem human unlike most warmovies at the time, as they would make the germans look like evil ****bags of death


dasboot = best warmovie made

then great escape, steve mcqueen is my hero!

[Pablo]

Just finished watching "The Enemy Below", and I saw something interesting. The u-boat was tracking a escort on the surface with radar but it was one with a horizontal bar and would show a "V" in the line when it scanned the target. What kind of radar is it? Or is it fictional?
Hi!

The German radar oscilloscope shown in The Enemy Below is an "A-scope" display. It is the same type of display used by U-boats until the Type XXI, but I don't know if it looks exactly like a U-boat radar display. The Allied radar in the same movie uses a Plan Position Indicator (PPI), which was used historically by Allied ships later in the war.

See Appendix A of the GWX Manual for a longer dissertation. :)

Pablo

[Pablo]

I'll always remember it for the simple reason.....a proposed type VII that managed to fire 2 stern torpedoes simultaneously :hmm:
Hi!

Actually, I think it is supposed to be a Type IX. I paused a few of the underwater scenes, and it looks to me as if the movie's special effects department took a Gato-class submarine model and filled in two of the Gato-class boat's six forward tubes, and two of its aft tubes, leaving four forward and two aft - the same as a Type IX - as well as putting in a U-boat conning tower and adding the mine cutter for good measure.

Pablo

[Chisum]

Some(bad 'cause increase brightness) pics of the movie.

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[Blacklight]

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[Jimbuna]

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Someone put drain plug in sir !!!! OH NO !! THEY'RE ADDING BUBBLE BATH !!!



DIVE !! DAMN IT !!! DIVE !!! Sir !!! We're almost out of baking soda !!!! ALAAAAAARM !!!

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