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04-09-23, 01:00 AM | #4831 |
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https://archive.org/details/the-highest-honour-1982
"The Highest Honour" 1982. Australian WW2 movie. True story. Very Moving Highly recommended viewing. The Full Movie posted.
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04-09-23, 06:20 AM | #4832 |
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04-10-23, 12:18 PM | #4833 |
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04-11-23, 05:49 AM | #4834 |
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04-12-23, 09:21 AM | #4835 |
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04-12-23, 09:22 AM | #4836 |
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Australian film "Bad Eggs" with Bob Franklin as a member of the "Zero Tolerance Unit"
The intro:
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04-13-23, 01:28 PM | #4837 |
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04-14-23, 04:58 AM | #4838 |
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04-14-23, 06:40 AM | #4839 |
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With much anticipation, I finally got to see the movie " Greyhound " with Tom Hanks. It came out during Covid and was never at the movie theaters. The movie was just about 90 minutes long and overall, I was a bit disappointed. The movie is about Destroyers in WW2 protecting the Convoy system and battling wolf pack U-Boats.
The movie showed U-boats on the surface engaging Destroyers. The Destroyer Tom Hanks was commanding appeared to me to be a Fletcher Class. The Fletcher class was between 2000-2500 tons with a full load and had a top speed of about 35 knots. U-boats were rather fragile vessels and would never take the punishment well armed Destroyers could bring. Not for long, anyhow. As Destroyers go, the Fletcher class was bigger than most and approaching the size of cruisers. No U-boat Captain would take on a Destroyer like that unless it was a case of desperation and not being able to dive. The movie made for good cinema but sorely need a reality check. |
04-14-23, 11:34 AM | #4840 |
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Its like Star Wars, kinda. |
04-14-23, 12:32 PM | #4841 |
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If you know a bit about the atlantic war this film was disappointing. The original book it is based upon "The Good Shepherd" by Cecil Scott Forester from 1955 is excellent though; but then i bet you read this
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04-14-23, 04:11 PM | #4842 | |
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Even so, there is no documented evidence of U-boats engaging destroyers in running gun battles, especially at close quarters like the 50ft or 15.25 meters depicted in the movie. By all accounts, the U-boat commanders in the war of the Atlantic were very skilled and all too effective in causing a great deal of destruction to the merchant ships in transit to England and other places. These U-boat Commanders would never have acted so recklessly. |
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04-15-23, 01:26 AM | #4843 |
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04-15-23, 05:03 AM | #4844 |
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04-16-23, 04:33 AM | #4845 |
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