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I read a book: Operation Drumbeat, about the nazi submarine operation to strangle us shipping along the east coast. Quite a few interviews with people that served.
Thing that most surprised me, a guy was asked about the movie 'Das Boot' and to paraphrase, 'oh, movie was just completely unrealistic. They made it look so nice and easy and spacious. Everything was just so clean in the movie, in real life we were covered in greasy soot after the first day and constantly coughing. And that scene where people were screaming in fear with the depth charges? That would never happen. Everyone was there to do their job 100%, fear never crossed your mind.'
Most shocking was how they had no regret about sinking big passenger liners. I guess there's people today who's job is to launch h-bombs at cities, and that is worse in magnitude for sure, but they also don't need to listen to the people in the water screaming for help.
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