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Re: U-boat oddities
Posted by: J.T. McDaniel ()
Date: March 08, 2004 01:40AM

<HTML>Yep, Hollywood magic and Hollywood science. Like the crew in Run Silent, Run Deep using a come-along to try to pull the forward torpedo room hatch closed, since the counterbalance springs were obviously so much stronger than the water pressure pushing down on it. (Probably shouldn't even ask just who had it open at sea in the first place.)

My personal favorite has always been the stock footage inspired magically morphing submarine that dives as a covered-wagon Gato and surfaces following a severe depth charging as a Balao, and mounting a 5"/25 in 1942, yet looks exactly like a U-boat, complete with net-cutter, in the underwater shots. (But John Wayne did get his ex-wife back, and I guess that's all that matters.)

J.T. McDaniel</HTML>

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U-boat oddities David W. 03/07/2004 12:37PM
Re: U-boat oddities Vettecaster 03/07/2004 12:48PM
Re: U-boat oddities J.T. McDaniel 03/07/2004 06:42PM
Re: U-boat oddities Dan Odenweller 03/07/2004 07:40PM
Re: U-boat oddities J.T. McDaniel 03/08/2004 01:40AM
Re: U-boat oddities Dan Odenweller 03/08/2004 03:12AM
Re: U-boat oddities ROBERT M. 03/10/2004 04:20AM
Re: U-boat oddities ROBERT M. 03/11/2004 02:03AM
Re: U-boat oddities ROBERT M. 03/11/2004 03:35AM
Re: U-boat oddities Ian Stapley 08/06/2004 06:24PM
Re: U-boat oddities ROBERT M. 08/08/2004 04:38AM


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