Sh3 Commander photos

[GoldenRivet]

I got to thinking after this last patrol when i shut down SH3 Commander. I wonder how these U-Boat commanders who's photographs appear in SH3 Commander might feel about that.

Would they be put off to the fact that people play a game using their image?

Would they feel honored?

angry?

what would i feel if 60 years from now, someone were using my image to spur their imagination along while they played some game that was once very real and frightening to me at one point in my life... and maybe even cost me my life?

personally, i would probably think it was really neat as long as it was tasteful and respectful.

who really knows? Im not sure how you guys use SH3 commander, but i have particular photographs in sh3 commander which i attach to particular careers.

So i decided that i should probably learn something about the men whos photographs i had been using frequently. so i pulled up uboat.net and searched through the images until i found them both

first up we have the image of Kapitan Zur See Werner Hartmann, http://www.uboat.net/men/hartmann.htm he completed the third longest u-boat patrol (200 days) once commanded the 2nd flotilla as well as the 27th flotilla, and has a total of 115,337 tons to his credit. He survived the war, and died in 1963, he was 61 years old.

second, we have korvettenkapitan Seigfried Strelow, http://www.uboat.net/men/strelow.htm who started his career on torpedo boats and worked his way up to a light cruiser, he eventually took command of a u-boat gaining just under 60,000 tons. His boat was depth charged while crash diving by a wellington bomber in the north atlantic. the boat sank, all hands lost.

one thing that struck me was how sad some of the images are. Smiling faces younger than my own and i have still a year to round the corner to 30! One u-boat commander assigned to a XXI boat was only 24 years old. Germany surrendered before he receives his first patrol orders. no other information is available on him.