Type VII used for transporting the Ark

Torplexed · 04-11-09, 08:34 PM

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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

Cpt. Angry F... · 04-11-09, 08:43 PM

Haha. The Afrika Korps apparently already existed back in 1938 (or whatever year Indy 1 is set) and had a foothold in Egypt!

Torplexed · 04-11-09, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Cpt. Angry F...

Haha. The Afrika Korps apparently already existed back in 1938 (or whatever year Indy 1 is set) and had a foothold in Egypt!

Yes...apparently the British had no objection to a massive German archeological dig involving hundreds of well-armed soldiers. Egypt was nominally independent by 1922 but Britain still had a healthy military presence there in 1938.

UnterseeBoogeyMan · 04-11-09, 08:53 PM

An armed German force on British occupied land must have been a concession made by the appeasement faction in London. Chamberlain must have given the Reich a lease.

Yeah, Torplexed,the islands in the Med would make more sense. Otherwise the Uboat has to cross the Suez to get to the Indian Ocean. I am impressed they were able to build a Uboat pen out in international waters with no one raising a fuss. Kind of surprising it wasnt a joint venture with the Japanese. Using the island as a springboard, the Axis could have cut supplies to Viscount Slim's forces in India.

Torplexed · 04-11-09, 08:58 PM

The bunker and pen you see (briefly) in the movie is the one in La Pallice (La Rochelle) in France which still exists today. It was one of the first scenes filmed.

I'm pretty sure there weren't any Type VIIBs or Cs yet operational in 1938. Maybe some prototype Type VIIAs. But then most movie audiences wouldn't know the difference.

GoldenRivet · 04-11-09, 10:56 PM

awesome movie anyway.

i never once thought to ask how the light speed engines on the millennium falcon worked.

im just taking Star Wars' word for it

Art does not always have to represent life in order to be considered art.

My thinking is that they would have had some sort of hastily modded hatch built onto the sub.

Oneshot/Onekill · 04-12-09, 01:45 AM

It would have to of been a Type VIIA. The first TypeVIIB wasn't launched untill 1939.

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Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	The bunker and pen you see (briefly) in the movie is the one in La Pallice (La Rochelle) in France which still exists today. It was one of the first scenes filmed. I'm pretty sure there weren't any Type VIIBs or Cs yet operational in 1938. Maybe some prototype Type VIIAs. But then most movie audiences wouldn't know the difference. __________________ --Mobilis in Mobili-- Last edited by Torplexed; 04-11-09 at 09:13 PM.

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GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	awesome movie anyway. i never once thought to ask how the light speed engines on the millennium falcon worked. im just taking Star Wars' word for it Art does not always have to represent life in order to be considered art. My thinking is that they would have had some sort of hastily modded hatch built onto the sub. __________________

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04-11-09, 08:43 PM	#2
Cpt. Angry F... Swabbie Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Castellum Traiectum Posts: 14 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Haha. The Afrika Korps apparently already existed back in 1938 (or whatever year Indy 1 is set) and had a foothold in Egypt!

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UnterseeBoogeyMan Ensign Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: The Land of Cholla Cactus and Red Chile Posts: 224 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	An armed German force on British occupied land must have been a concession made by the appeasement faction in London. Chamberlain must have given the Reich a lease. Yeah, Torplexed,the islands in the Med would make more sense. Otherwise the Uboat has to cross the Suez to get to the Indian Ocean. I am impressed they were able to build a Uboat pen out in international waters with no one raising a fuss. Kind of surprising it wasnt a joint venture with the Japanese. Using the island as a springboard, the Axis could have cut supplies to Viscount Slim's forces in India.