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Old 07-13-06, 02:38 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Neither the book or the movie has much to do with real life, except to show what it was like on board. If you look at the reference bigboywooly posted http://uboat.net/boats/u96.htm you'll see that the real U-96 never went into the Mediterranean. Also, in the movie they don't go from Gibralter back to Vigo, they go straight home to La Rochelle (or was it La Pallice?).
I think you meant they don't from from Gibralter to La Spezia -- they go back to La Rochelle.
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