I don't know. I seem to recall reading many instances where U-Boats short of fuel for getting home got their tanks topped off by an out-going boat. Not just from the dedicated U-tankers which couldn't be everywhere. However, dispatching an oceanic tug for the Germans would be somewhat risky as they didn't control the airspace much beyond the shoreline. Odds are pretty good that the tug and the towed would be bounced by aircraft.

Exactly. I have heard how fuel and torpedoes were transferred between incoming/outgoing boats, but as far as having a "Kriegsmarine Triple A" service, I don't think that happened.

i agree

a good movie based on real life DAS BOOT

might give some u boot secrets away if you you know how to look for them

eg: survivors not being rescued when they finish of a tanker scene

But not only was that particular scene not based on real life, it wasn't even in the book.

The scene from the book that they left out of the movie was much more grim.

I'm in the middle of the book now and I'm liking it a lot more than the movie. Of course there's plenty of the familiar scenes in it, and Pilgrim gets a lot more dirty with his comments about "subject number one" (the glass eye story had me laughing out loud).

I'm in the middle of the Storm chapter and after the first depth charging. Haven't quite got to the tanker attack yet.

I won't give anything away (of course I could also be misremembering), but there is a nighttime attack on a convoy, with some interesting differences.

But the big scene is almost at the end of the book, and it's a corker. You'll know it when you get there.:yep: