Das Boot... questions??

[BulSoldier]

I have watched the 293min version 2-3 times i think.In the book i am at the moment where they are all asleep while waiting for the darkness and repairing the boot.
My question is not really related to the uboatwar, but - have anyone found the theme from the gibraltar scene when all hell brakes loose ? I cant find it anywhere.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Hanomag

1. The year in the movie is 1942, dont they get harrased a little too much for that early in the war? Aircraft attacks, DD detection etc. (besides the Gibraltar bombing) Being that my only knowledge about this is from the history channel and Das GWX, I could be wrong in this assumtion.

In the book they get attacked by aircraft several times, but it is always by Sunderlands. After the emergency dive at Gibraltar the Old Man complains that he can't believe they were actually caught by a "Bee". "Tired Bee" was the German slang for the Sunderland.

2. Their base gets bombed! Isnt it supposed to be Lorient-ish or even Brest-ish? I thought these bases wouldnt be under air attack until after 43 at the very least.

The real U-96 was destroyed during an American high-altitude bombing raid on Wilhelmshaven on March 30, 1945.
http://uboat.net/boats/u96.htm
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill...06/u96/u96.htm

Patrol #7 was the one with Bucheim aboard.

Bonus question: The fighter aircraft shown in the movie were..?
My guess are Brewster Buffalos?

Yes they are Texans. The T-6 has always been popular with WW2 filmmakers since it bears a generic resemblance to the radial-engined monoplanes of that era. Tora! Tora! Tora! used a number of Texans heavily modified to resemble all the Japanese fighters and attack planes used at Pearl Harbor, and they did an outstanding conversion job.

In a movie where such painstaking attention to detail prevailed how could they make such easy boo boos? Or am I way outta' wack here?

There were probably no Swordfish and no Sunderlands available for Petersen to use for the film, so he had to go with what he could get. Today they would use something similar in size, the CGI the correct aircraft. They would also use CGI to make the foam look correct for the u-boat models - one of my few complaints about the movie.

[Indiana_Jones]

Originally Posted by BulSoldier

My question is not really related to the uboatwar, but - have anyone found the theme from the gibraltar scene when all hell brakes loose ? I cant find it anywhere.

You mean the music?

I think it's on my LP.

[BulSoldier]

Yes i cant find the music from the gibraltar scene.

[msalama]

Das Boot is brilliant entertainment, but I really wouldn't put too much value on it as a historical document. IIRC there was even a group of U-bootwaffe sailors who wrote a book contradicting most of the events Buchheim claimed as true, and AFAIK many historians have refuted his views as well. So take Das Boot for what it is, i.e. one of the greatest war movies and / or books ever made, but that only

That said I really have to read / watch it again pretty soon, it's been a while already...

[Indiana_Jones]

Originally Posted by BulSoldier

Yes i cant find the music from the gibraltar scene.

Well going by my LP listing the track you seek is "U 96"

[Petr]

Does anybody have German subtitles for the longest version? (4,5 hours I think)
I have English but sometimes they are unacurate.
Thanks