Das Boot... questions??

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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.

The date in the film states is "Autumn 1941"

this leads me to believe that we are talking about October - November of 41.

I would think things were just starting to get tough then.

Originally Posted by Hanomag

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.

La Rochelle actually

U-boat pens were bombed by air attack as early as the first three months of '42

Originally Posted by Hanomag

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

Looks like stock footage of Mosquito bombers as the formation splits.

the intial attack looks to be the standard war movie fighter the T-6 Texan

Rhodes is correct in that this is the film adaptation of a book - so some creative licensing was no doubt used to make the film a bit more "hollywood" than the book