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Originally Posted by JazzJR
I think this Scene with the Destroyer was that, where one of the Watch crew said "Freighter sighted!" and then the Kaleun went up and said "Thats no Freighter....thats a Destroyer" And since he though the Destroyer is around 6000meters away he tried to attack it. The 2WO said "He want to attack the Destroyer. Crazy at this sea (because of the high waves)" Then a wave is infront of the Periscope and the Destroyer is almost ramming the Boat. So i think he just tried to attack it because he though it was far away and didn't have him spotted, so it would be a good hit. But i think the british ships had already radar in that year. The Kaleun said "They really have spotted out Periscope"
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And then he says something about this being hard to believe, given the weather or sea state or whatever. At least according to the English subtitles altho my German dictionary would have me believe that the "hard to believe" part is pretty spot on. And there's a bit later on in the uncut version, when they are trying to make repairs after the Gibraltar disaster, where he remarks on the fact that the plane seemed to come right at them in the dark, the implication being that it already knew where they were. The 1WO says he's heard talk about the British having new and improved radar and der Alte says (again, according to the subtitles) that if the Tommies can find them in the dark there's not much left they can do except pray.
I think all of that stuff is a reflection of the already stated fact that the Happy Times are over, the Allied offense and defense in the war at sea are improving in ways the Germans never anticipated and for which they have no ready answer, and the men out there trying to deal with them are getting the first inklings of that unpleasant fact.