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Ending at La rochelle (spoilers)

posted 8 years ago by Andy44
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The sub pens were almost bombproof. Why would the sub stop
outside? I believe the RAF patrolled the approaches to La Rochelle and St. Nazaire; I would think a returning sub would get inside the pen ASAP.

I know the allies bombed sub pens in France and Germany, but I think the only
somewhat successful raids were by heavy bombers, sometimes with "block-buster"
bombs.

In the movie, the "bombers" looked like low-flying single engine planes. Does the book explain any of this?

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[–] benth04 8 years ago

In the movie, the "bombers" looked like low-flying single engine planes. Does the book explain any of this?

The single-engined planes in the film are AT-6 trainers, the only plane that then - and even more today - could be acquired to create an illusion of WW2. For many year it has been the plane in a WW2 film (today, with fast and powerful computers, it would be no problem to create a thousand-bomber raid over Cologne, of course, or to raze Hamburg to the ground once more).
The shot with the bombers splitting up, is a shot from the 1969-film 'Battle of Britain', where a formation of He-111 breaks up, not to attack London, but to run away attacked by 'those last fifty Spitfires and Huricanes'

[–] Sudip (57) 2 years ago

Fantastic answer! 👍🏻