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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.
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.
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.
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Aug 26, 2023 · U-571: Blending Fiction with WWII Naval Battles ‘U-571’ is partially based on a true story. The film’s creator, Jonathan Mostow, found his muse in the historical events of May 9, 1941, where British forces orchestrated a daring raid on a German U-boat, absconding with the coveted Enigma machine. While ‘U-571’ undeniably draws ...
Aug 3, 2020 · Even the most basic detail of U-571 is fictionalised. The real U-571 wasn’t involved. It was commissioned in May 1941 and was sunk on January 28, 1944 in the North Atlantic off the west of...
The Germans immediately opened fire with the AA guns, but one of the gunners panicked and failed to open fire during the second attack, so the boat was forced to dive despite the depth at that point being only 70m, leaving behind a small patch of oil. A leak in one of the ballast tanks forced U-571 to return to base for repairs.
On 28 January 1944 in the North Atlantic, U-571 sank on its eleventh war patrol after fighting on the surface with an Australian Sunderland aircraft from RAAF 461 Squadron. The aircraft pilot...
