What’s Your Favorite Submarine Related Movie?

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  • Bill

    Was sorry to see you left "Destination Tokyo" off the list. Excellent movie.

  • Toby Martin II

    "The Enemy Below"... an oversight?

    • Keith

      I would have to say a grossly irresponsible oversight.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1594391088 Clark Weichmann

        My favorite sub film of all time.

  • Tito Pannaggi

    What about Georges Méliès' submarine film? He was the first!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/whatever41 Cynthia LaRochelle

    Wow, this was a tough one, but I went with Red Oct. All were great.

  • Allen Hefner

    I would have chosen Red October, but it is way too mainstream for this blog!

    I did miss Down Periscope, which was much funnier than everything else on the list!

  • Doriano Pulpito

    the enemy below

  • BRIAN

    Destination Tokyo(1943)
    Hell And High Water(1954)

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  • Darrell McCoy

    Yellow submarine?!, I would replace this one with the two anime titles, Blue Submarine No. 6 and Submarine 707-Revolution. Yes, they are animated, but still a thrill to watch.

  • Lenny Cassioppi

    Maybe it is too old, but "Destination Tokyo" is my all time favorite.

  • Ron

    First Place - Enemy Below and Ice Station Zebra. Second Place - Destination Tokyo, Hunt for Red October, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

  • Martin Stumacher

    A good list but my favorite was Destination Tokyo.
    For its time, World War II, it was an excellent film with a great cast at Warner Bros. Cary Grant and John Garfield among others. This was a great propoganda piece during the War Years.

  • OZ, Rob

    A couple more to consider..
    Forty Ninth Parallel..1941
    We Dive at Dawn..1943..

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  • Bryan K

    This was one of the harder polls! I had a tough time choosing from the list. I was wondering why Yellow Submarine was on the list, but that's okay, I can deal with that. Das Boot? I wanted that one, even though it was from the perspective of the enemy, It was still a great movie! Run silent, Red October? Both fantastic movies, but not my choice. I instead opted for Destination Tokyo. I loved the actors and the direction.

  • Blair Kramer.

    "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea" isn't a very good film, but it's very entertaining in a juvenile sort of way. It spawned an equally juvenile, but equally entertaining, TV series in the mid 60's. I particularly enjoy the "giant" monsters that try to crush the Seaview (the name of the submarine) at the bottom of the ocean. For some reason, the monsters always looked like a stuntman in a bad costume holding a model of the submarine! And for the most part, each episode focussed on the monster of the week!

  • Nina

    A good submarine movie worth checking out was a made for TV special "The Hunley".

  • Susan

    The Enemy Below. Loved On the Beach, but I don't tend to think of it as a submarine movie because its principal theme was how the world deals with nuclear anialation. Parts of the movie involve a submarine crew, but Ava Gardner (the female lead) spent very little time on Gregory Peck's Sub.

  • GenevaP

    The Hunley with Armand Assante.

  • Mike M

    Very difficult to choose. This is the hardest poll I can remember-many top notch films. I finally settled on Red October, but would not disagree with Run Silent, Destination Tokyo, 20,000 Leagues or Das Boot.

  • Rick

    What about Grey Lady Down? That was a really good movie about a nuclear submarine accident with Charlton Heaston.

  • John Stanaway

    I guess I would distinguish between submarine and submarine combat movies. Your list omits THE ENEMY BELOW which is a crack submarine-destroyer combat movie. The dramatic sonar ping and sweating faces looking in near panic at the sub ceiling makes for hearty submerged drama. YELLOW SUBMARINE is a great Beatle film, but submarine movie? BTW Hunley is just another typical Turner turkey; why would anyone want to remember it?

  • Bill

    Voted for The Hunt For Red October but prefer The Bedford Incident.

    • frank pienkosky

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  • David Ecklein

    If you can suspend judgement on the fantasy, the Japanese "Lorelei" (2005) is a really spectacular alternate-history, alternate-reality submarine war tall tale.

  • Rita

    Although there were some great movies on this list,including Hunt for Red October, Operation Petticoat, Run Silent Run Deep and Das Boot, I had to vote for Destination Tokyo. Excellent movie!

  • Designer

    Das Boot was the most realistic as all the interior sequences were actually shot inside a U-Boat from WWII and not on a cutaway or a sound stage set. Also, the Germans were the masters of the submarine and used them more in both world wars than all other nations put together. They also had 80% losses. Very few of their sailors survived the war and many of the captains who did survive became VLCC (Supertankers) captains in the late 60's and early 70's as they were only in their 20's during the war but had already gained vast experience and survived.

  • Gerald F.

    I would have voted for Enemy Below if it had been on the List. As it was, I chose Run Silent, Run Deep barely over Destination Tokyo.

  • Tom Leach

    Torpedo Run although not currently available was a great sub flick with a submersable escape scene not shown in any other films. Glenn Ford headlined the cast.

  • Dr Morbius

    If you're gonna put On The Beach and Yellow Submarine on the list you may as well include Assault On A Queen, with Sinatra doing an Ocean's Eleven thing on a cruise liner.

  • Dana Rich

    "The Abyss" is sort of a submarine movie and I found it very enjoyable. Not as good as many on your choice list, though.

  • Cranford

    The Bedford Incident

  • Mark Townsend

    I voted for "Destination Tokyo" mainly because it was WW2 and was a pretty realistic film. "Das Boot" was a very good film as well but I have a hard time identifying with .... Nazis. Oh well....
    I was tempted to vote for "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," as I am a bit prejudiced, having known one of the men behind the special effects for it. It was a colorful adventure film, but I decided against it as it really isn't anything BEYOND adventure --it is very unscientific. A minor example; at one point the Seaview is being rained upon by icebergs.
    Hint: icebergs float.
    So a good solid WW2 sub film with American heroes was my choice.
    But many others were very good too.

  • Lisa C

    I chose The Russians Are Coming... although I don't consider it a "submarine movie". My favorite is one mentioned by some others, "The Enemy Below". It's like an exciting chess game.

  • hiram grant

    I have to concur with all of the people who say that this is an excellent list (although the omission of The Enemy Below is strange). I also agree that Destination Tokyo belongs on top, with Operation Petticoat second and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea third. How's that for variety in submarine pictures?

  • B Young

    I voted for Destination Tokyo great WW II flick. The appendectomy scene was based on an incident that took place on the SS Silversides Dec 22, 1942. Where pharmacist Mate Thomas Moore removed George Platter's appendix 150 feet below the surface. Photos of the surgery are on display in The Naval Memorial Museum in Muskegon Mich.

    Two other sub movies not on the list a John Wayne flick "Operation Pacific" and a Ronald Reagan movie "Hellcats of the Navy" it also stars Reagan's future wife Nancy Davis.

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  • tinytim

    Growing up in the late 50s and 60s, there were three great submarine movies I watched many, many times: "Destination Tokyo" (my vote), "Run Silent, Run Deep," and "Torpedo Run" with Glen Ford and Ernest Borgnine. Your leaving the latter off the list is a serious oversight, one I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned. I also find your overall concept seriously flawed. For this comparison to make any sense you should have qualified it further to include only war movies. Pitting "Das Boot" against "The Russians Are Coming . . ." or "Yellow Submarine" is like comparing apples with hand grenades.

  • Jaime

    Das Boot is the best movie of all in this category.It is also not a nazi propaganda but a remarkably humane story which should touch us all.

  • rickpatbb

    The miniseries War and Remembrance had some pretty good submarine sequences in it too.

  • Linda

    Your list omitted one of the best sub films of all time -- Ice Station Zebra. Full of suspense,
    action AUTHENTIC submarine activities and sets and great performances by the ENTIRE cast.

  • Kate

    Voted for "Red October", but really "Ice Station Zebra", is a great picture but needs to be seen in a theater on a big screen, to get the full effect of the suspense as it builds along with the music score.

    To my knowledge, in " On The Beach", there were little or no submarine action. "Crash Dive", superb movie but I think the younger people have not seen many of these movies made in the 1940's and that is sad. Because back then movies were made as authentic as possible and the actors, well, they just don't have actors like this anymore, they were called "Hollywood Royality", for good reason.

  • bill

    ENEMY BELOW,2ND,DAS BOAT

  • Richard Dicks

    How do you leave The Enemy Below off of this sort of list??

  • AO

    What about "Down Periscope"? (1996) Kelsey Grammar et al.

  • Rick

    Wow, some really good movies to pick from and they represent many different types of movie. There were several other movies that could have been mentioned too, but you do have to limit the field. AS much as I love historic/WWII movies, for some reason I still like the adventure of Irwin Allen's "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". I would also like to mention "Fantastic Voyage" is also a movie I love. By today's standards the FX may be laughable, but for their time, I loved them.

  • ganderson

    I agree with the posters who added 'Enemy Below' and 'Bedford Incident' to the list and particularly agee with adding 'The Hunley', a made-for-tv movie from 1999. For those who don't know, the Hunley was a Confederate submersible powered by 7 crewmen turning a crankshaft. It gained historical immortality by becoming the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel when it destroyed the USS Housitanic in Charleston Harbor in 1864. The movie is not perfect, with dreadful miscasting in some of the lead roles, but it is appropriately tense and fairly well written. I personally suffer somewhat from claustrophobia and, for some inexplicable reason, submarine movies have an appeal -- I guess as a means to confront my own fears. Certainly the claustrophobic surrondings inherent in any submarine movie add to the tension and generate that extra little element of dread and helplessness. My point is 'The Hunley' has that element in spades and is the better for it -- maybe that's what makes it a great submarine movie.

  • WJM

    I am in agreement with multiple other commeters, how does this list not include "The Enemy Below"? Easily my first choice and then was shocked to not even see it listed. With Robert Mitchum as an American destroyer Captain and Curt Jurgens as a German U-Boat Captain each giving superior performances in an excellently written movie that won the 1958 Academy Award for Best Special Effects, I simply don't see how it was not included. Leaves me at a loss as to what to vote for with 3 or 4 of the others tieing for 2nd place behind it.

  • Steve Phifer

    The Enemy Below is my favorite. How could it have been left off the list?

  • Jill

    Voted for Red October but I really liked Down Periscope. Just for laughs of course! :)

  • Steve in Sedona

    Anybody remember "The Fifth Missile", a TV-movie with Robert Conrad? Interesting premise: A nuclear submarine gets an overhaul, but the paint used in the interior is toxic. Everybody's affected except Conrad - he's a closet alcoholic whose medication counteracts the paint's toxicity. The submarine is ordered to simulate a drill focusing on the aftermath of a nuclear attack on the US. Because of the effects of the toxic paint, the entire crew - except Conrad - believes the drill is real and prepares to launch a counterattack.

  • Robert Dato

    THE ENEMY BELOW, for realism and suspense, is my favorite submarine movie.

  • Gord Jackson

    "The Enemy Below" is where I go. Leaving it off the list was a serious oversight.

  • richard finn

    My 2 favorite movies on the list were "On The Beach" and "The Russians are Coming, ditto" I voted for The Russians as it was pure enjoyment. Actually though in both those movies, the submarines on played minor roles. For intensity, "The Enemy Below" and "Destination Tokyo" were tops. And when "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" came out in 1954, it was only that year the the US launched its 1st nuclear powered sub.

  • CE Carter

    I must agree with T. Martin, D. Pulpito, Ron, Susan, J. Stanaway, Gerald F., Lisa C. and all the others who chose "The Enemy Below" starring Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens. Leaving it out of the survey was a serious oversight. In my opinion, what distinguishes this war movie from some of the others is that it does not create a, "Good Guy vs Bad Guy" sub-plot. It comes down to one vessel commander against another. Robert Mitchum's character is nowhere near Humphrey Bogart's in "Caine Mutiny" or Richard Widmarks' in "The Bedford Incident". The U-boat commander portrayed by Curt Jurgens is a professional warrior -and not even a Nazi.
    Once the machineries of war under their respective controls and commands have been mutually destroyed and they see and meet one another face to face, they have a respect for one another as men -without political ideology. In my opinion, this is what makes "The Enemy Below" an excellent war film. Like "Paths of Glory" it shows the brutality of war. It does not glorify war.

  • S. R. Orsulak

    Why you forgot to include OPERATION PACIFIC and THE ENEMY BELOW is hard for me to understand. Since I am a NAVY VET these 2 films along with RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP and DAS BOOT are by far the best movies about submarine warfare in my opinion ever made.

  • William Sommerwerck

    As much as I like "20,000 Leagues..." (solid story, superb model effects), I went with "Das Boot" because -- besides being an excellent film -- it's got a lot of hot bearded guys.

  • John S. Orlitta

    I'm surprised that "Fantastic Voyage" didn't make the list.

  • wade

    not really into submarine movies but can't resist the combination of Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck

  • SLH

    The moment I read the title the only movie that entered my mind was 'Operation Petticoat'. I have enough real life drama and tragedy in my life, when I watch a movie I lean toward pure entertainment with a happy ending. The cast was wonderful from the stars to the co-stars.

  • Vann Morrison

    There are some British made movies also,
    Morning Departure, Above us the Waves, Submarine X-1 and We Dive at Dawn. There are some classics not mentioned either; Torpedo Alley, Submarine Seahawk, Operation Pacific with the Duke,
    Submarine Command, The Flying Missle with Glen Ford, Battle of the Coral Sea with Cliff Robertson, Murphy's War with Peter O'Toole. There's also a late 40ish early 50ish German made submarine movie, Sharks and Little Fish. Also a good Russian made sub movie titled "72 Meters", unfortunately in Russian with no subtitles. And don't forget that there was a Japanese I-Boat in Stephen Spielberg's 1941. Loved it when they captured Slim Pickens.

  • ed

    grey lady down i liked. think it would have been easier to say what is the worst submarine movie ever made

  • Guy

    I am gutted that U571didn't get a better vote, a very intense and moving storyline. obviously my vote is U571 with hunt for red october as back up, Sean Connery made the movie.

  • Carole Maloof

    Red October was my first choice but we do LOVE The Russians are Coming. Never tire of either of them. Very different but equally well cas, good story line and well acted.

  • Ray

    Voted for Red October but Ice Station Zebra should have been on this list

  • Ranny Nella

    OPERATION PETTICOAT heads the pack. Cary Grant and Tony Curtis are at the height of their acting powers in this zany WWII adventure. And, Joan O'Brien, alone, makes the film worth watching for her pneumatic figure. A terrific film all around with no cast member making a false step. Director, Blake Edwards, went from a Pink Submarine to a Pink Panther a few years later.

    20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA runs a tight second. I think it's Disney's finest live action adventure film. The Nautilus Submarine is one of the greatest design achievements for any Underwater vehicle.

    VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA is, definitely, a juvenile science fiction adventure (along with its TV series spinoff) but it still remains a favorite of mine. I saw it at a movie theatre with a pack of pals when it was first released. We all had a great afternoon at the show. The SEAVIEW is a wonderful sub with those impossible and amazing bow windows. We all loved the TV series (schlocky monsters included) and howled at MAD magazine's parody, 'Voyage to See What's On The Bottom'

    ICE STATION ZEBRA (not on your list) has long been a guilty pleasure favorite of mine. I usually watch it annually during the winter months (yes, a viewing is imminent). It's a pretty good adaptation of Alistair MacLean's spy thriller. Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine and Jim Brown all give good performances.

    DESTINATION TOKYO, RUN SILENT RUN DEEP, THE ENEMY BELOW, UP PERISCOPE and DAS BOOT are all terrific!

    I was a radioman on a fast attack submarine so I feel qualified in my assessments.

    Finally, In spite of a beached Soviet Sub sparking the action, I've never regarded THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! as a true 'Submarine' themed film. I like it, though, very much and laugh everytime I see it. Alan Arkin delivers one of the best comedic performances of all time. The movie poster is also wonderful with an illustration by Jack Davis (of MAD fame).

  • Dolores Tamoria

    DAS BOOT is the most authentic submarine movie ever made. Made from the German perspective it is superb and part of my Classic Movie Collection.

  • Arlene

    Toby,

    I agree - The Enemy Below - how could you leave it out?

  • Publius

    I voted for "The Russians" because of the comedy ensemble cast that is in the film. The captain of the Russian submarine vessel is hysterical, and used to be in the Second City here in Chicago for so many years. I've only seen a little of the "Leagues" Film but like James Mason's performance. As to the others I'll have to catch sometime on DVD rental.

  • BOB TROTT

    ALL THE MOVIES YOU HAVE LISTED ARE GOOD , BUT THEY ARE JUST MOVIES. THE MORE TRUE TO LIFE IS "DAS BOOT ". THERE ARE ACTORS IN ALL THE OTHERS AND FOLLOW A SCRIPT, BUT " DAS BOOT " IS MORE TRUE TO LIFE.

  • Mark Townsend

    "Steve in Sedona says:
    January 17, 2012 at 2:06 pm
    Anybody remember "The Fifth Missile", a TV-movie with Robert Conrad? Interesting premise: A nuclear submarine gets an overhaul, but the paint used in the interior is toxic. Everybody's affected except Conrad - he's a closet alcoholic whose medication counteracts the paint's toxicity. The submarine is ordered to simulate a drill focusing on the aftermath of a nuclear attack on the US. Because of the effects of the toxic paint, the entire crew - except Conrad - believes the drill is real and prepares to launch a counterattack."

    Now that you mention it, not only do I remember it, somewhere I have it on videotape. I'd forgotten it.
    It was a pretty decent TV movie for its day. But, I don't think it's in the same league as "Destination Tokyo" and other, better productions.

  • David Orme

    I hav'nt read ALL the reviews in this column, but my favourite title is "THE ABYSS", EXCELLENT!!!.

  • Michael Oldfield

    In my humble opinion, "Das Boot" is the only film which gives us an idea of what it was really like to serve onboard a submarine. American sub movies all portray the sub's quarters as so clean and spacious you could hold a high school graduation dance in them.
    "Das Boot", on the other hand, shows us just how crowded, dirty, foul smelling and claustrophobic it really was. The depiction of the depth charging while they are running through the Straits of Gibraltar is one of the most terrifying war sequences I have ever seen in a film

  • tim kenneally

    don't forget 1941. when slim pickens tricks the nips into thinking he moved his bowels is a classic.

  • Phil Ingram

    I wish you would have put "Ice Station Zebra" on your list. That was one suspenseful movie that kept you sitting on the edge of your seat.

  • Thomas G. Finnerty

    The Enemy Below - Atlantic.
    Operation Pacific - Pacific.
    Two of the greats, Left out?
    Let's not forget Submarine X-1, The Mighty Midgets!
    The Hunley? The early classic, Submarine D-1? Time to expand the library fellas!

  • Beth

    THE ENEMY BELOW. Don't know how this one was overlooked when the list was made.

  • Jerry

    Whatever happened to 'Enemy Below' and 'Torpedo Run' ????

  • Jerry

    I forgot to add John Wayne's 'Operation Pacific'!

  • Hector DL

    Most of the titles listed are "important" films like DAS BOOT but, for sheer entertainment value, I'll go with ICE STATION ZEBRA at number one - it's got that inimitable 60's vibe, impressive visuals, a killer score and a great cast.

  • MrMovieClassics

    Easily Martin & Lewis's "SAILOR BEWARE" -- one of their very best, if not their best. FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY!

  • janet m.

    When I read the prompt, I immediately remembered Das Boat. When I saw the list, it became a more challenging choice. I voted for Red October because we must choose one.

    Has anyone noticed that there are no longer any new submarine movies? They seem to be only a residue of WWII. However Red October was different. On a personal share re submarines: In the 80's, I had a friend in the Navy National Guard that told me about how they'd go out in subs on maneuvers and meet up with the Russians. They'd have a cultural exchange; he told me the Russians coveted Playboy magazine. I wish I remember more about this adventure---it could be an idea for a movie.

  • R. Schafer

    How could the poll leave off The Enemy Below and include Yellow Submarine?

  • J Elder

    Left off Operation Pacific, good John Wayne, Ward Bond movie.

  • Richard

    I would vote on The Enemy Below it was very good, The Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea was great growing up with I have some of the series before the budget cut and program become stupid to watch

  • Gordon

    My personal favorite is Hell and High Water (1954). I saw it as a kid when it first came out, and just bought the DVD. It was still as good as I remember, despite some implausabilities.

    I also saw 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as a Kid, and liked it as well.

  • Magman

    The survey has been torpedoed without The Enemy Below. But with the list as is....Red October or Run Silent Run deep.

  • Mike B

    Lots of great movies here, along with some that were left out. It was tough for me to personally choose as they are all so great but I had to go with Run Silent, Run Deep. Das Boat is fantastic and gives a great perspective of submarine life. The Bedford Incident is a favorite of mine as the ending is a shocker. Once Captain Finlander had located the sub and activated the sonar, the pinging to me was hypnotic. The tension on the bridge was almost unbearable and when the fatal mistake was made, "Fire One!" my jaw literally dropped. Great dramatic film!!

  • Ed Moore

    Three of the best movies were left off:

    1. The Bedford Incident.
    2. Ice Station Zebra.
    3. The Enemy Below.

    Voted for "Das Boot" as best of listed. Fourth if the missing ones are included.

  • Ray Johnson

    Operation Pacific! The WWII submarine movies were the best. How can you not list this flick? Jack Pennick as the crusty old Chief dropping torpedoes from a crane trying to figure out why the detonators aren't working is classic stuff. Great cast, great action.

  • Dave

    USAA, an insurance company insuring military people, asked its customers who were submarine commanders (more than 100) who their favorite submarine movie was. More than half said "Das Boot." The six-hour version is great.

  • David Alan

    "Ice Station Zebra"

  • Doug Weir

    Best submarine comedy?
    The Incredible Mr. Limpet

  • Chester

    Well, I made my choice based on the options above, BUT my real favourite submarine film is The Enemy Below w/ Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens. MOVIES UNLIMITED, how, how could you leave that one off the list!

  • Frederick

    With the exception of "Crash Dive" I've seen every movie on this list and while I, voted for "K-19" every movie on here I've seen is EXCELLENT!! Although putting "Operation Petticoat" or "Down Periscope" up against "The Hunt For Red October" is something we won't see in any other poll, it's different.

  • Alfie

    'Red October' came to mind immediately ... then I noticed 'On The Beach' ... Those periscope scenes of post-nuclear cities in the USA are so hard to forget. That, plus the thought that those on the sub ultimately have no place on earth to go that is safe .. the horrible futility and no hope for survival in the face of such devastation and radiation. They know they will die in that sub. A sub-related movie does not have to be about torpedos, evasion, or crew conflict. 'On the Beach' ranks right up there with 'Red October.'

  • wateristhesource

    Fantastic Voyage. Getting out of the submarine to swim in someone's body fluids is either astounding or disgusting.

  • john

    "The Enemy Below", "Torpedo Run" and "Ice station Zebra", should have been on this list above some of the lesser submarine movies you chose. Which brings up a second question. Who compiles these lists of movies in different catagories, where so many good quality movies are left off lists for more mediocre ones? This happens consistantly. You can do better.

  • Vann Morrison

    Almost forgot about the WWII supernatural thriller "Below", starring Bruce Greenwood.
    Ghosts on a submarine. There was also a made for TV movie in the 70's titled; "Fer de Lance" about a posionous snake loose on an nuclear sub.

  • Larry Jacox

    I like "Operation Petticoat" but "Enemy Below" rings truest. As an old sailor. the shipboard routine on the 'can' seemed like home.

  • Linda Snyder

    I totally agree "Torpedo Run" and "Enemy Below" were blatant omissions but this list was really tough nonetheless. Went with "run Silent, Run Deep" just more my era.

    • Mike B

      "What is that sir I can't make that out?"

  • Thomas W. Wilson

    Many good submarine movies have been mentioned in this category but I vote for Das Boot due to its stark realism. Also, not all German soldiers and sailors were Nazis. In fact, most of the German population were not members of the Nazi party. Most of the German soldiers and sailors were fighting for their country or each other as is usually the case. I have toured the U-505 at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and I can tell you it took a special breed to live on one of those submarines. One couldn't be claustrophobic or concerned with creature comforts, that is for sure. I once met a submariner from the U-505, Hans Gobeler, and he was a nice and friendly old gentleman who did not act like a Nazi. And, my brother was a submariner.

  • Zahid

    I have a qsiuteon.Once you find this system works for you how quickly can it be scaled up.Can most of it be outsourced and where would you go to find good people.

  • frank pienkosky

    "Das Boot"...hands down..those of you who have actually been down inside a submarine know what I mean..[smelly, cramped, all-encompassing dampness]...only certain types of guys [small!] are cut-out for this duty...

  • frank pienkosky

    another one that should be mentioned is "Kursk..A submarine in troubled waters"...although it might be more suited to the "fake documentary" category..

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