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Originally Posted by Nopileo
while I thought it was purely fictional (although based on real events).
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"The story is based, loosely, on an amalgamation of the exploits of the real U-96, a Type VIIC-class U-boat commanded by Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, one of Germany's top U-boat "tonnage aces" during the war." - Wikipedia
Lehmann-Willenbrock died in 1986:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinric...nn-Willenbrock