U96 course

CCIP · 01-16-11, 03:55 PM

It's not really specified anymore, and Buchheim is deliberately vague - especially in the book where the grid coordinates are completely made-up and not historical. However from what you can generally deduce, most of the actual patrol takes place south of Iceland.

Obltn Strand · 01-16-11, 04:47 PM

uboat.net should give some information of that patrol.

Sorry. I dont know how to post links

kapuhy · 01-16-11, 05:14 PM

Here you go:

http://www.uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_4725.html

Note: this is an actual patrol as it happened IRL - of course, being a novelist, Buchheim has made some changes in his telling of the story, so "his" U96's route might be different. As noted above, Buchheim kept details like this deliberately vague, describing how it is to be a part of U-Boat crew rather than writing a war diary.

CCIP · 01-16-11, 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kapuhy

Here you go:

http://www.uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_4725.html

Note: this is an actual patrol as it happened IRL - of course, being a novelist, Buchheim has made some changes in his telling of the story, so "his" U96's route might be different. As noted above, Buchheim kept details like this deliberately vague, describing how it is to be a part of U-Boat crew rather than writing a war diary.

Yep - and it's also worth noting that the Das Boot patrol was sort of a collage of stories that had occured over several patrols on the actual U-96.

Sailor Steve · 01-16-11, 11:07 PM

And remember that in the book no number is ever mentioned. The boat is "U-A".

Gargamel · 01-16-11, 11:34 PM

Wasn't U-A an actual boat? Wouldn't that count as it's number then?

Sailor Steve · 01-16-11, 11:56 PM

There was a boat in the First World War called U-A. Buchheim used that specifically because he didn't want to use the number of an actual WW2 boat. If I recall correctly Thomsen's boat was U-X.

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CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	It's not really specified anymore, and Buchheim is deliberately vague - especially in the book where the grid coordinates are completely made-up and not historical. However from what you can generally deduce, most of the actual patrol takes place south of Iceland. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	And remember that in the book no number is ever mentioned. The boat is "U-A". __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,273 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	Wasn't U-A an actual boat? Wouldn't that count as it's number then? __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.

01-16-11, 11:56 PM	#7
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	There was a boat in the First World War called U-A. Buchheim used that specifically because he didn't want to use the number of an actual WW2 boat. If I recall correctly Thomsen's boat was U-X. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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01-16-11, 04:47 PM	#2
Obltn Strand Commodore Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 614 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 0	uboat.net should give some information of that patrol. Sorry. I dont know how to post links

01-16-11, 05:14 PM	#3
kapuhy Grey Wolf Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Poland Posts: 874 Downloads: 72 Uploads: 3	Here you go: http://www.uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_4725.html Note: this is an actual patrol as it happened IRL - of course, being a novelist, Buchheim has made some changes in his telling of the story, so "his" U96's route might be different. As noted above, Buchheim kept details like this deliberately vague, describing how it is to be a part of U-Boat crew rather than writing a war diary.