[AVGWarhawk]

I really have not found anyone calling the u-boat crews as heros. The discussion is about what they saw and experienced. That is all. Nothing more, nothing less. As the victor countries sit in their high horse, I was only pointing out that these men in the boats and in the trenches were not unlike the victors. They had wives, family, homes and sense of being a countrymen to their land. The thread was about the great spans of ocean and the undertaking of being ordered to sink Allied vessels basically on a shoe string of technology. The same as what Allied forces had to content with. One cannot sit back and wonder how any of the opposing forces did what they did with by todays standards would be cavemen tools. How it turned into who is a hero and who is not is beyond me. But I guess that what open forums are about and all opinions are taken, mulled over and thought about. Like I said from the start, imagine yourself in the middle of the Atlantic in a boat that is already half sunk, a radio that might work, might not, a compass that is so-so and depending on a clear night to see the stars so you could figure out with in a few hundred miles where you are on the planet. That is all this thread was to be.