it never stops amazing me, the sheer waste of human dedication and bravery of the 28-30.000 men who gave it their all for an ideology that - in hindsight, was doomed and evil from the begining.
they may have severd the convoys and began starving britain of supplies. but the brits would never have given in. and i think the americans would have rolled across the atlantic anyway.
the uboats had the edge, in a way, in the early part of the war but command and higher failed to capitalise on the success with new technology, more boats, and the blind refusal to realise the enigma was broken even though Kaleu's and crew KNEW something like this had happend.
but hindsight is easy...
i think i could rattle on for hours but it begins to make me angry at the almost fruitlessness of it all.....but hell, what an adventure!!
it still facinates me and i keep reading the history, buying the dvd's hoping for new material to get a different slant on it all, but they lost! maybe thats the facination, the collosal loss on both sides.
even in the game when the depth charges come down i get tense and start thinking of the crew and my boat. ITS A GAME ITS A GAME!! i tell myself over and over again...but the reality of it is awsome, all those men
...i'm off to bed!