Inside The Control Room During A DC Attack

[K-61]

Exactly. Knowing that the photographer is almost as likely to cop a bullet as the soldiers he films adds to the drama of such pics. I still get a chill when I see that picture of the German soldier with his arms spread out to each side as the bullet strikes him; his gun is flying out of his right hand. Another one is the shot of two German soldiers laying down, with one of them about to release a hand grenade. I believe that pic made it onto the cover of a game like Squad Leader or something similar.

Edit: Found 2 Google links to the pics I mention above:

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=h...20&tx=60&ty=77

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=h...w=1916&bih=871

Originally Posted by TarJak

Nope being in the DD dropping the DC's is the preferred position. Much less chance of getting crushed to death or being stabbed with a sharp piece of U-boat.

Until that U-boats Kaluen gets really irked off by you DCing him and after you think hes dead but hes really alive and kicking, he decides to make it his personal mission to sink you, in which case he pursues your from your stern fires 2 magnetics into your prop, making you a sitting duck in the water then goes broadside and fires all 4 tubes into you then surfaces to get on the bridge and laugh as he watches you and your boat plummet to 1000+ Km of crushing water pressure just waiting to happen that will snap your bones like skinny twigs. Then youd wish you were in the U-Boat Too graphic anyone?

[desirableroasted]

Originally Posted by USNSRCaseySmith

Until that U-boats Kaluen gets really irked off by you DCing him and after you think hes dead but hes really alive and kicking, he decides to make it his personal mission to sink you, in which case he pursues your from your stern fires 2 magnetics into your prop, making you a sitting duck in the water then goes broadside and fires all 4 tubes into you then surfaces to get on the bridge and laugh as he watches you and your boat plummet to 1000+ Km of crushing water pressure just waiting to happen that will snap your bones like skinny twigs. Then youd wish you were in the U-Boat Too graphic anyone?

Ah, the idle dreams of youth.

A skilled captain would slip away.

A less-skilled captain would (if pressed) use one magnetic pistol on a steamer, under the hull, to disable the escort, then slip away.

Jerry Bruckheimer would waste two magnetics into the props (but he would add big explosions), and then fire four more (more explosions).

I do like the 1000+ kilometers idea... how far down is that?

Less Jerry. More Wolfgang.

Originally Posted by desirableroasted

Ah, the idle dreams of youth.

A skilled captain would slip away.

A less-skilled captain would (if pressed) use one magnetic pistol on a steamer, under the hull, to disable the escort, then slip away.

Jerry Bruckheimer would waste two magnetics into the props (but he would add big explosions), and then fire four more (more explosions).

I do like the 1000+ kilometers idea... how far down is that?

Less Jerry. More Wolfgang.

It wasnt meant to be taken litterally.

EDIT: The Km was a typo too.

[sharkbit]

Originally Posted by Elektranaut

The photo reminds me of the ones Robert Capa took of the troops running through the water towards Omaha Beach on D-Day.The images are blurred but there's a real sense of motion,action and danger,you feel your'e right there running up that hellish beach.

The real shame is most of the pictures that he took were destroyed in a lab accident back in England. The technician let the emulsion run (some chemicals were too hot IIRC) and the majority of the shots he took were lost forever. Only a handful survived from that day and those were pretty powerful themselves.

[Kafka BC]

Originally Posted by K-61

... I still get a chill when I see that picture of the German soldier with his arms spread out to each side as the bullet strikes him; his gun is flying out of his right hand. ...

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=h...20&tx=60&ty=77

The one that gets to me is this one by Robert Capa:

Death of a Loyalist militiaman, Córdoba front, Spain, September 5, 1936



Although its authenticity is disputed, it is still a powerful image. And the one that made Capa's reputation when it was posted in Life Magazine in 1937.

“This is not a war,” he used to say, “it is a comic opera with an occasional death.” – George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia