The United States decided to try to capture one from a damaged U-Boat | Type Ordered 24 Oct 1939 Laid down 8 Jun 1940 werk 547 Launched 4 Apr 1941 Commissioned 22 May 1941 Kptlt |
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This left the audience not knowing what had happened to his character |
However, the submarine has taken severe damage, and so the crew abandons it with the Enigma in their possession.
6When there was action, or conflict, he was very good--but most of the time all he did was hang his jaw open and stare stupidly, like a particularly dumb-looking mannequin | |
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There is so much that's unbelievably bad about this movie that I have to describe it in detail | Seizing the Enigma: the Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939—1943 |
The crew realizes that Wassner, despite being shackled, is using Morse Code to tap out a signal that the submarine had been captured, so Hirsch kills him.
7Between September and December, U-571 was probably being overhauled in a drydock as no mention of the boat for that time period appears in war diary kept by the German Commander in Chief, Submarines, Admiral | As the crew sigh in relief, Tank reports Trigger's death |
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The Allies captured Enigma-related codebooks and machines about fifteen times during the War; all but two of these by British forces | Both my grandparents were officers in the , and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements |
Were the British right to be offended by the movie? An earlier military Enigma had been examined by in 1928; the broke the Enigma code in 1932 and gave their findings to Britain and France in 1939, just before the.