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Originally Posted by StanUK
Concerning just SHIII, I knew very little of the German Navy and U-Boats before playing. However after getting hooked it got me interested in the history and I have spent a lot of time reading books and websites about u-boats and the people who commanded and sailed in them. For me, its been a great experience and I have learnt a lot about what the German sailors went through and what they achieved.
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I, too, knew next to nothing about U-boats and the German navy until I started playing SH3 and it has spurred study in U-boats. Both COD and SH3 taught me things I didn't know, or had forgotten, about WWII. If they had video games in high school I would've learned more than through the dry text books, and times and dates we were taught!
There was a documentary on PBS last night about D-Day and I found it fascinating about all the technology that had to be developed in just two years, like the Higgins-boat (unfortunately many of them sank when they were launched too far from shore) and the bravery of the two men who snuck onto Omaha beach at night to take sand depth measurements (for the tanks).
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