The Navy League reviewed it when it came out and said that
although it was a good action movie they couldn't recommend
it just because of this. Very ethical on their part. And why
did they pic the same sail # as out first nuke boat, the
Nautilus?
And why
did they pic the same sail # as out first nuke boat, the
Nautilus?
Well, I guess the makers of the film tried to make some reference to a real number, but failed. Anyways, the inaccuracy broke my meter on U-571, I mean, there’s plenty of historical fiction films, or at least films based on a true story with some creative license (The Great Escape), but the distortion of U-571 was beyond what I could take, even for the sake of entertainment. The facts are there that we were a leading role in decoding for the Japanese navy, because we wanted to try the island-hopping strategy to keep losses down in some places while still striking at critical points, especially when you are talking an enemy military force in the millions, that could at least dig in to numerous sparse islands. We actually cracked their code, figuring out what their own phrases meant, and so on, all in a similar manner to how the British worked on the enigma. I only recently started getting into this part of history when I actually wrote my aging Grandfather about what he did when he was a young adult, which got me into reading a whole lot into the Pacific Theatre. The biggest beef I have with Hollywood, especially recently, is their lack of acknowledging what we did years ago. We did fight the Japanese, we did use an incredible amount of strategic and intelligence work with them. It’s fact, and the other part is the fact that the war ended more than half a century ago. I have seen plenty of things that could be offensive as whatever I have been or am religiously, ethnically, and so on, but I confront the film with facts and opinions of my own at the same time, and I would encourage others to do the same, after all, when writing opinions, who knows, it might make your writing run a little more smoothly after all.