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Op zondag 27 januari 2008 18:03 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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U571, Dat je het verhaal wat aanpast om het leuker te maken o.k. maar zeker met iets historisch kun je toch het fatsoen hebben om de karakters de juiste nationaliteit te geven

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U-571 is also depicted in the movie U-571, starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton and Jon Bon Jovi. In fact, U-571 was never captured by the Allies, nor was her Enigma Machine ever taken. The events in the film are loosely based on the British capture of U-110 and her Enigma and cipher keys.

U-110 and U-201 were attacking convoy OB318 in the North Atlantic south of Iceland when a torpedo launch failure resulted in Lemp's guard being dropped. In this crisis, the escorting corvette, HMS Aubretia, had responded to U-110's attack, located her with Asdic and dropped depth charges.

U-110 barely survived the attack but she was seriously damaged and helpless. After a second depth-charge attack, she surfaced, to the crew's relief, and Lemp announced "Last stop, everybody out", meaning "Abandon ship". As the crew turned out onto the u-boat's deck they came under fire from two attacking warships (HMS Bulldog and HMS Broadway) with casualties from gunfire and drowning. The British had believed that the German deck gun was to be used and ceased fire when they realised that the u-boat was being abandoned and the crew would surrender.

The escort commander, Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell in Bulldog, had initially made to ram but recognised the opportunity for capture, pulled out and hove to, before strafing the submarine. Broadway also closed in, intending to prevent U-110 submerging and suffering incidental damage.

Lemp assumed that the boat, with vents open, would sink and ordered a radio operator, Heinz Wilde, to leave the codebooks and Enigma machine and get out - "The U-boat is sinking", he is reported to have said. Another radio operator recovered personal effects, ignoring the secret material.

Lemp realised that the U-110 was not sinking and attempted to swim back to it to destroy the secret material. He was never seen again. He may have been shot in the water by a British sailor (as testified by a German eyewitness), but his fate is unknown. Including Lemp, 15 men were killed in the action and 32 captured.

Bulldog's crew boarded U-110 and stripped it of everything portable on the spot, including her secret documents and Enigma cipher machine. U-110 was taken in tow back toward Britain, but sank en route to Scapa Flow.

The documents captured from U-110 helped Bletchley Park codebreakers solve Reservehandverfahren, a reserve German hand cipher.

The movie U-571 was partially inspired by the capture of U-110.

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Op maandag 28 januari 2008 07:11 schreef vipergts het volgende:
Er is in WO2 1 amerikaanse duikboot door een Uboot tot zinken gebracht. Ik kan het nu even niet vinden, maar het moet een van de toppers zijn. weet ook niet of het onderwater was