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I wanted to shout back, "You have never trained me to fire, have you? I'm only eighteen, remember!" But of course, I did no such thing. A Stuka bomber was poised overhead about a few hundred feet above our ship. The bomber came literally screaming down (at me personally, I thought). More orders shouted down to me from the bridge. "Open fire! Open fire!" I pointed the machine gun directly straight up in the air, my eyes squeezed tightly shut, my fingers squeezed tight, pressing the firing trigger. I was waiting for the bomb to explode on me.
'Underwater, underhanded and damned un-English' they might have been but submarine development and deployment has long been an integral part of naval warfare.
For centuries man has been fascinated with the possibility of an underwater vessel, the ultimate method of improving the odds against a superior surface fleet. Being submerged beneath the sea was the obvious means by which a warship could be approached and attacked without detection - but the attempts to create the perfect sub was a long and often tragic affair.
This DVD tracks the evolution of underwater crafts from the early Turtle to a privileged look inside the salvaged U-Boat 534 and beyond. Aboard the famous U-Boat 534 we examine the living conditions and the true bravery shown by all her crew.
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I wanted to shout back, "You have never trained me to fire, have you? I'm only eighteen, remember!" But of course, I did no such thing. A Stuka bomber was poised overhead about a few hundred feet above our ship. The bomber came literally screaming down (at me personally, I thought). More orders shouted down to me from the bridge. "Open fire! Open fire!" I pointed the machine gun directly straight up in the air, my eyes squeezed tightly shut, my fingers squeezed tight, pressing the firing trigger. I was waiting for the bomb to explode on me.
'Underwater, underhanded and damned un-English' they might have been but submarine development and deployment has long been an integral part of naval warfare.
For centuries man has been fascinated with the possibility of an underwater vessel, the ultimate method of improving the odds against a superior surface fleet. Being submerged beneath the sea was the obvious means by which a warship could be approached and attacked without detection - but the attempts to create the perfect sub was a long and often tragic affair.
This DVD tracks the evolution of underwater crafts from the early Turtle to a privileged look inside the salvaged U-Boat 534 and beyond. Aboard the famous U-Boat 534 we examine the living conditions and the true bravery shown by all her crew.
17 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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