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Old 09-15-10, 04:12 AM   #11
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CBC's The Doc Zone broadcast a very good documentary-The Spies Who Came From the Sea last spring (http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/docz...ame/index.html)

It covered the mission of U-537 to build Weather Station Kurt in Northern Labrador in '43, as well as a spy insertion by U-518 into Quebec in November '42. Their submarine set looked just like it does in SH3.

The spy was arrested a couple of days after landing, in part because he still stank of diesel from his voyage - even after showering. He also paid for his hotel with a wallet full of currency which had been out of circulation since 1917.

An earlier German spy simply took all the cash he'd been given to maintain his operation (equal to about a hundred thousand today), and went off to try and spend the war night-clubbing in Montreal.

Alas, I think the show is no longer available for viewing on their site, probably because they're selling it as a DVD (http://www.cbcshop.ca/CBC/shopping/product.aspx?Product_ID=FTSRC00464&Variant_ID=FTSR C00464〈=en-CA). CBC does tend to re-broadcast a lot so it may come around again.

P.S. I am in no way affiliated with CBC, etc.
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