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German submarine U-571 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany for service during World War II. U-571 conducted eleven war patrols, sinking five ships totalling 33,511 gross register tons (GRT), and damaging one other for 11,394 GRT.
Oct 30, 2018 · On October 30, 1942, the heroic efforts of three British sailors resulted in the capture of codebooks and key setting sheets for the top secret Enigma code machine used by the German military during World War II. The sailors had boarded a sinking German submarine, U-559 in the Mediterranean Sea, costing 2 of the men their lives but reaping ...
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U-571 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career: Stosstrupp (30 Oct 1941 - 4 Nov 1941) Raubritter (4 Nov 1941 - 17 Nov 1941) Störtebecker (17 Nov 1941 - 22 Nov 1941) Seydlitz (27 Dec 1941 - 16 Jan 1942) Endrass (12 Jun 1942 - 17 Jun 1942) Panther (10 Oct 1942 - 20 Oct 1942) Veilchen (20 Oct 1942 - 7 Nov 1942) Delphin (26 Dec 1942 - 19...
22 Apr 1943 The boat had to return to base because the commander was badly injured in an accident on the conning tower. Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats-
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Apr 20, 2022 · The film's historical inaccuracies were broken down by The Guardian in 2009, starting with the fact that the first German Enigma machine was captured in February 1940 by the Royal Navy vessel HMS...
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Sep 3, 2016 · The movie portrays the daring capture of a German code machine (named the Enigma) from a heavily damaged U-boat submarine (U-571) by a crew of young and inexperienced, but brave U.S. Navy sailors aboard an outdated S-33 submarine, disguised to look like a U-boat.
Aug 3, 2020 · None of that happened, of course. U-571 – directed by Jonathan Mostow and co-written by David Ayer – is a cynical Hollywood fantasy: the kind of crafty historical tinkering which has riled up ...
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In 1942, during the Battle of the Atlantic, after sinking a merchant ship from an Allied convoy, the German U-boat U-571 has her engines badly damaged by depth charges from a British destroyer, with all of their engineers and mechanics killed in a flash fire.
