Re: Realism Question: Movie U571
Posted by:
kurt
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Date: August 12, 2003 01:11PM
<HTML>This has been discussed repeatedly on the forum.
You are correct - the scene - like a lot in U-571 - is impossible fiction. Fully submerged (submerged below periscope depth) sub on sub combat was impossible in WWII for a number of reasons, and did not occur. Submarines hunted, and sank, other subs in WWI and WWII, but in the same manner they did with surface ships: sightings taken on the surface (either when surfaced or from a periscope, radar, etc).
Once below periscope depth, a sub was safe from another sub.
Kurt</HTML>
You are correct - the scene - like a lot in U-571 - is impossible fiction. Fully submerged (submerged below periscope depth) sub on sub combat was impossible in WWII for a number of reasons, and did not occur. Submarines hunted, and sank, other subs in WWI and WWII, but in the same manner they did with surface ships: sightings taken on the surface (either when surfaced or from a periscope, radar, etc).
Once below periscope depth, a sub was safe from another sub.
Kurt</HTML>
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