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Another Problem with "U-571"?
Posted by: Angolmois ()
Date: February 21, 2003 12:08PM

<HTML>I've watched that movie again and decided that the first 5 minutes or so are the best in the whole movie. Mainly because it so strongly resembles "Das Boot". But there's another possible problem which wasn't mentioned.

When the captain looks through the periscope at the tanker, it is located in the control room. From what I gathered, there were two periscopes on the all U-boats: one for attack, and one for scanning the horizon. The attack periscope in the VII type was located in the conning tower, while the scan perisocope was in the contorl room.

Now, is it plausible that the captain would be using the scan periscope to attack a ship? Or is it another boo-boo by the director?</HTML>

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Another Problem with &quot;U-571&quot;? Angolmois 02/21/2003 12:08PM
Re: Another Problem with &quot;U-571&quot;? ScottNE 02/21/2003 07:31PM
Re: Another Problem with &quot;U-571&quot;? Angolmois 02/21/2003 10:54PM
Re: dont forget &quot;Action in the North Atlantic Periscope Pete 02/22/2003 03:22PM
Re: dont forget &quot;Action in the North Atlantic ROBERT M. 02/24/2003 09:55PM
Re: Another Problem with &quot;U-571&quot;? J.T. McDaniel 02/22/2003 08:44PM
Re: Another Problem with &quot;U-571&quot;? Leif... 02/23/2003 04:42PM
Re: Another Problem with &quot;U-571&quot;? kosta 02/23/2003 07:22PM
Re: Another Problem with &quot;U-571&quot;? George Roumbos 02/24/2003 01:45PM
Re: Another Problem with &quot;U-571&quot;? Marc Cimon 02/25/2003 08:11PM
Re: Another Problem with &quot;U-571&quot;? ROBERT M. 02/26/2003 08:30PM
Re: Another Problem with &quot;U-571&quot;? kosta 02/26/2003 09:35PM
Re: Another Problem with &quot;U-571&quot;? J.T. McDaniel 02/26/2003 10:03PM
Re: Another Problem with &quot;U-571&quot;? ROBERT M. 02/27/2003 02:34AM
Re: Another Problem with &quot;U-571&quot;? J.T. McDaniel 02/28/2003 04:52AM


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