Their averaging figures got messed up but U-391.33 just didn't look right and U-1174/3 didn't seem much better.The film U-571 is based on 3 separate incidents involving 3 different U-Boats.
Except to keep the movie short of a TV series they'd have to cut out too much of the real action to add in their 'necessary' embellishments.Perhaps it would have been more fitting if they'd named the film U-505. The true story of the capture of U-505 is epic enough to stand on its own.
What do you mean? She was 26-years-old in 1999.Kate Beckinsale wasn't even born until 1973, so she couldn't have been at Pearl Harbor. Another fallacy flagged up.

I could find a list of historic answers given by students; battles not only fought on the wrong date but even in the wrong century, between the wrong opponents, etc. Not long ago, I clicked into a website offering info and footages of WW2; one of the audio selections was listed as, "Hear President Truman's speach to congress about the attack on Pearl Harbor."

He was Vice President Truman at the time -- and the speech was that given by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on December 8, 1941. Where did these historians go to school?
I've met a few people who said they wouldn't read a book -- they'd wait to see the movie. Unfortunately, even authors often change a few facts in the writing -- by the time it reaches the screen...

Don't follow him too closely, Soui; it's not that we'd mind seeing you on the telecast but I hear Afghanistan is a dangerous neighborhood.I'm trying to follow Ross Kemp in Afghanistan on Discovery Channel...

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