Tim wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:44:18 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

That is one mezmorizing film! Too abcd it came on way late last
night, and I could only get half way though it before I had to sack
out. Life on a German U-boat. Oh, man. I had to shut it off right
when the crew was at their christmas lunch reception in Spain. I wish
I'd recorded it. I'll eventually get to see the rest of it though.

Great movie!

Agreed...

it gives you an good insight on human nature too. I thought it was
interesting that when they hit the convoy and the captain and crew
were taking a pridful grin and saying , "hear those bulkheads
crumble?" Even though doing their job, they had the attitude of being
the true victors in the fight., then come the destroyers and sub
chasers throwing depth charges over baord. Then you see the anger from
the captain;"Those pigs! Those dirty SWINE!" Like, you're not
supposed to do that, you're picking on us!"

Anyhow thats how I saw it.

Hollywood license? I don't see how anyone could survive any type of a
fire on a Uboat, especially like the one they had, besides consuming
most of the limited suply of oxygen, the smoke would be the worst. But
for some odd reason, it was a "clean" fire. go figure.

Then there was the food hanging every where. May as well, I suppose.

Another thing that got me, was that after surfacing to polish off the
tanker, The captain made a good hit on it, the moved in to watch it
sink. Then notice that there were survivors on the tanker that wer
jumping overboard, he was angered that the rest of the convoy had left
them there after 6 hr.s, then made the decision to leave them to the
fate of the sea. One helmsman broke down into tears because there was
nothing to do for the lost crewman, but I think I can understand the
decision of the captain, that he had no room for prisoners, and this
was a wartime decision that could have been critical to his own ships
saftey.

Hard decision to make, and afterwards, probably even harder to live
with.