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Originally Posted by melnibonian
No matter what we think of the second world war and Germany I feel we should respect the level of professionalism, endurance and (unfortunatelly) ruthlessness of the U-Boat crews. The achieve a lot with inferior machines and in really difficult conditions.
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It is not what we think of Germany, there was less than a handful of radicals. For the most part the German soldiers were much like you and me. Unfortunate that Hollywood always shows the extremely bad side of the Germany back then. If you get out of Hollywood and read accounts by soldiers in the Germany military, most loved, laughed, cared for family and country...not much unlike the Allied troops. Most thrown into a war they did not want.
As far as inferior machines as to what we have today....you bet man, it was sometimes a shoe string operation at best. Hell, the wildcats that flew off carriers had no compass, fly only while the sun is up so they could see their way back. Now that takes a large set of nuts to do that!!!!
A very different world then what we see today, no doubt.