Type VII used for transporting the Ark

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Originally Posted by UnterseeBoogeyMan

I wonder what strings Hitler pulled to get a VII out there anyway. Doenitz would surely have to be pulled into at least some specifics of the Lost Ark, if a boat from one of his flotillas is to be used in transporting matrial from Egypt. ALso, the plane blew up, so this was last minute notice. Good thing the Kriegsmarine just happened to have a boat in the area.Also a good thing the Kriegsmarine happened to have a island clpse by too.

I always wondered what strings Spielberg used to get that sub away from Wolfgang Petersen. It's the same submarine exterior used for Das Boot and it was borrowed while that movie was still being filmed.

Indiana Jones was hardly realistic in many respects, Egyptology among them. However in the 1930s Germany's future ally Italy possessed several islands in the eastern Mediterranean that could have played the part of a fictitious U-Boat base, the island of Rhodes and the Dodecanese among them