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Type Ordered 24 Oct 1939 Laid down 8 Jun 1940 werk 547 Launched 4 Apr 1941 Commissioned 22 May 1941 Kptlt She was on 22 May 1941 with Kapitänleutnant in command
On board U-571 the German skipper gets loose and tries to sabotage the engines of the U-boat but is caught and re-secured Take the most cartoonish movie score for a kids' action movie and inflict it on a movie that's supposed to be somewhat serious and for adults, and you get the idea

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But what we get here is a shallow Hollywood action flick not necessarily a criticism under the guise of a historical depiction of WWII.

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Tyler attempts to deceive the destroyer into stopping its attack, by ejecting debris and a dead crew member out of a torpedo tube, faking their own destruction
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It got better, but overall still two stars
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This left the audience not knowing what had happened to his character U-571 is forced to descend to dangerously deep depths, only to suffer further damage from the intense pressure
The submarine then dives beneath the German destroyer, which begins to drop depth charges The British had captured the first naval Enigma machine in May 1941, before the US had entered the war

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Nothing like the scenes on "Das Boot", but there was genuine tension and frightening moments on it.

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The credits acknowledge the Royal Navy's role in capturing Enigma machines and code documents from U-110, U-559 and the U
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He closes the air valve to the stern tube, but finds a second leak, which he can't reach
The tanker SS Pennsylvania Sun, torpedoed by U-571 on 15 July 1942 was saved and returned to service in 1943 Sadly, U-571 is damaged beyond repair, and must be abandoned by the American prize crew, although all code materials and Enigma machine are recovered However, it tries to be too much patriotic, resulting as some kind of an amazing feat rather than another time that war proved to be terror on earth
I'm well aware that, historically, it could not be less accurate if it tried but I think you know me well enough by now to know that I don't give half a crap about that sort of thing But also another movie that I really liked back in the day

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On 22 April 1943, she had to return to base because the commander was badly injured in an accident on the conning tower.

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The incident most likely to have provided the inspiration for the movie, U-571, the capture of U-110 in May of 1941 by the Royal Navy, was kept so secret that the British did not even tell President Roosevelt of the capture until almost a year later
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With seriously damaged engines, the U-571 skipper radios for assistance, a transmission that is promptly intercepted and decoded by American intelligence