[Rockin Robbins]

Sheesh, where'd that goose-stepping salute come from? The fact is U-Boats sank less than 1% of Allied ships during the war. The fact is that the vaunted homing torpedo hit 1/10 of the targets it was shot at, where the Cutie, crippled as it was hit 33%. The fact is that the German U-Boat didn't take enough weaponry to sea to do anything more than die and make an artificial reef with. The fact is that US submarine radar DID render a 15 second dive time difference irrelevent. The fact is that reskinned fleet boats with no modifications to drive systems outperformed the unproven Type XXI boat, whose reliability was never established.

The fact is that US submarines won their war in the Pacific while Germany lost in part BECAUSE U-Boats were helping defeat them by bringing unbeatable foes into the war. The US and Britain didn't have to be part of the fight. U-Boats made their enmity unavoidable and so caused the defeat of Germany. How good the boats were technically was irrelevent. How gallant their men were was irrelevent. All that technical excellence (while not as technically excellent as the fleet boat) and all that gallantry actually contributed to the defeat of the Germany who foolishly squandered them for an obviously impossible task.

By the way, the Saturn V rocket hasn't flown since well before you were born. I personally watched every Saturn V that ever flew, and not on television.