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Originally Posted by Capa
I have Plunkett & Macleane and never would have thought that track was on it. The film is more or less black comedy. I like the song but prefer the original SH3 music, Hanging is really overly intense and powerful which doesn't particularly fit in with U-boat atmosphere IMO. If SH3 was an epic, then maybe.
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With respect Capa, I disagree completely.
Enigma broken... resulting in long patrols seeing nothing but the water as shipping was routed well around you....
Mounting losses with lessening returns...
Loss of U-boat bases in the Med and then in France...
Three out of four U-boatmen didn't come back... (An un-sustainable casualty ratio.)
Many boats disappearing on their first patrol...
Query after query by BdU trying to contact lost boats...
Constant discovery and attacks by an opponent whose skills and technology increased more rapidly than countermeasures could be employed... instead of depth charging you to force you down... they would stay as long as it took to run you out of air.
Younger and younger crews...
Constant bombing raids on hometowns...
By the end, they stopped wishing their crews "good-luck" and would say instead... "Just come back alive."
No more bands and nurses... no parties... just survival and thinning hope...
I think "Hanging" fits perfectly.
The U-boat war was a doomed venture... and the crews certainly figured that out as time went on.
The happy times were short lived. Even in the first months of the war... 12 percent of the U-boat combat force were lost.
I think "Hanging" fits perfectly.
No offense intended.