Movies and Films
This is the forum for Movie and Film discussions. Again, our topic is naval warfare in WWII for the most part.
Re: Das Boot 17th Greatest War Movie
Posted by:
J.T. McDaniel
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Date: July 19, 2005 01:37AM
The U-boat from Raiders was the same one they built for Das Boot. They built a new boat for U-571, utilizing the original plans, and supposedly differing from an actual Type VII only in that the flood openings were plated over and consequently the boat couldn't dive. It was seaworthy, though, which wasn't necessarily the case with the earlier one. This was the boat that was later used to play both USS Squalus and USS Sculpin, resulting in all the comments further up the page.
J.T. McDaniel
J.T. McDaniel