| Sailor Steve |
07-29-09 11:30 AM |
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Originally Posted by Hanomag
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1. The year in the movie is 1942, dont they get harrased a little too much for that early in the war? Aircraft attacks, DD detection etc. (besides the Gibraltar bombing) Being that my only knowledge about this is from the history channel and Das GWX, I could be wrong in this assumtion. :hmmm:
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In the book they get attacked by aircraft several times, but it is always by Sunderlands. After the emergency dive at Gibraltar the Old Man complains that he can't believe they were actually caught by a "Bee". "Tired Bee" was the German slang for the Sunderland.
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2. Their base gets bombed! :o Isnt it supposed to be Lorient-ish or even Brest-ish? I thought these bases wouldnt be under air attack until after 43 at the very least.
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The real U-96 was destroyed during an American high-altitude bombing raid on Wilhelmshaven on March 30, 1945.
http://uboat.net/boats/u96.htm
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill...06/u96/u96.htm
Patrol #7 was the one with Bucheim aboard.
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Bonus question: The fighter aircraft shown in the movie were..?
My guess are Brewster Buffalos? :damn:
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Yes they are Texans. The T-6 has always been popular with WW2 filmmakers since it bears a generic resemblance to the radial-engined monoplanes of that era. Tora! Tora! Tora! used a number of Texans heavily modified to resemble all the Japanese fighters and attack planes used at Pearl Harbor, and they did an outstanding conversion job.
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In a movie where such painstaking attention to detail prevailed how could they make such easy boo boos? Or am I way outta' wack here?
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There were probably no Swordfish and no Sunderlands available for Petersen to use for the film, so he had to go with what he could get. Today they would use something similar in size, the CGI the correct aircraft. They would also use CGI to make the foam look correct for the u-boat models - one of my few complaints about the movie. |
