das boot

[cappy]

##one of the most interesting war films at see to me was the film das boot...the story of a uboat and its crew .....they i believe lost more than our total lost at sea in the MN ...... afollow on of that film is at the moment being made by german sky television ...at la rochelle were of course the sub pens which could not be touched regardless of bombing by the best bombs we had it is due to be shown in summer2018 ......if anything like the first one it will be really worth watching ....regards cappy

[John Pruden]

cappy I took my grandson over to see the U BOAT over in Birkenhead how they sailed in one of them I don't know but its a good day out for anyone visiting its cut into three parts with a glass window face on each section and everything that came up with it is on display? jp

[cappy]

cappy I took my grandson over to see the U BOAT over in Birkenhead how they sailed in one of them I don't know but its a good day out for anyone visiting its cut into three parts with a glass window face on each section and everything that came up with it is on display? jp

##only ever got aboard on in dunston on the tyne it had been decommisioned and just had watchmen aboard.......the thing stunk of oil and was making me feel to confined ...never had that feeling before .....didnt like it ...wouldnt have like to be drafted as the german seagoing personel were just told join that u boat ....one or two trips near the end of the war and finish.....not for cappy that one

[vic mcclymont]

Went inside the U boat pens at L, Orient, concrete walls are really thick.
A British blockbuster hit the roof and only bent it.
On British diesel subs not allowed to shower or take additional clothes.
When they get to their destination, all trooped up to the nearest shower and fresh clothes are waiting for them.
Regards
Vic

[Ivan Cloherty]

Only French and American actors being employed

[Lewis McColl]

Funny watched a movie last night or part of it about how the Americans captured the enigma machine( re writting history again) they did in small writting on the credits admit that it was the Brits that actually got there hands on the first one.

[cappy]

Only French and American actors being employed

####probably ivan .....but worth watching i guess cappy

[Bill Cameron]

One of my favourite movies, so well done, while watching it I’m sure I could smell the boiled cabbage and diesel

[Frederick Lacey]

Took these photo's of the U-Boat pens early fifties in Hamburg, was on the "Port Brisbane " at the time.img040.jpgimg041.jpgimg042.jpgimg043.jpgimg046.jpg

[Captain Kong]

When I was a Sea Cadet in 1949 I did a "Submarine course" at HMS Dolphin in Gosport,
I spent two weeks in submarines and all I did was scrub out all the compartments and polish brass through half a dozen submarines, we were used.
When I came home I told all my mates that I had been out in the Atlantic Diving a thousand feet under the sea. They were jealous.
Brian