New Tom Hanks WWII movie 'Greyhound'... (1 Viewer)

[DaveXA]

It debuts tomorrow on Apple TV+ for those who have it. I read that it comes in at around 91 min but that there's no 'fluff or filler' and that it's basically action, so I'm excited to watch it...

I'll probably add it to my Netflix DVD queue. I'd like to see it.

 

[The Nomad]

I heard that.... When driving from OKC to NOLA we are about 10 hours into the drive by baton rouge... so it like.. keep going on.... and then when you leave NOLA we are usually to hungover, tired and broke to stop and see it...

But I really want to tour the ship... Very much so...I guess a special trip is in order...

I do tour the destroyer escort in Galveston...the memory I recall the most was the galley... centered in the ship on the main deck with large doors on each side..

I could just picture a hot morning in the pacific... the cooks cooking breakfast in a hot galley. Both doors wide open with a breeze blowing through taking the smells of bacon and eggs out to 200 hungry sailors being tortured by the aroma...

I've been looking for an officers VISOR and the 16 power navy spyglass for my collection, but have not found either at a reasonable price....

I worked on this film for about 10 weeks and it was a lot of fun. We got to spend about 10 days on the Kidd with unlimited access and it was fabulous. If you ever take the tour, do not miss the story of the torpedo bomber and the Doctor.
We had a full bridge on a gimbal on set to shoot the in-cabin stuff, so we (fixtures electric) got to retrofit a fair amount of things that light up like buttons and signal lights. When we went to the ship, we brought those fixtures with us to some extent.
On to my story, The first thing we needed to do was clean the reflector on the searchlight we were going to use and that fell to me. I started on it first thing on a crisp early spring morning around 7. As it was filthy, I had asked one of the ship's guides/mechanics about the light the day prior before we opened it. He commented about how bad of shape it was in and that they never had cleaned the reflector as the light didn't work. It probably had not been cleaned since it was decommissioned in 1964!
So this particular a.m. I opened it and it was black and grey and brown and green inside. You could not see any of the shine from the reflector, and you would not be wrong to think it was hopeless. So I started cleaning, soap and water first, then fantastic, then glass cleaner. It was cleaning up well. As I was nearing completion, I smelled something burning. Now as an electrician on sets, we are probably more aware than most when it comes to noticing something burning on set. It happens, something falls on a light, or something overheats, but as we were not running any of our power yet, I knew it wasn't "our" fault. Nevertheless, something was burning as I smelled smoke AND my chest was getting hot! I looked down to see my shirt smoking! As I had finished cleaning the reflector, I had turned it to the morning sun to inspect my work and in about 20 seconds, it had started to burn my shirt.

 

[DCSaints_Fan]

Battle of the North Atlantic was an underapprecaited aspect of WW2. At one point in late 42 the Axis was actually sinking tonnage faster than it could be replaced. Long range U-boats (Type IX) were even attacking individual ships soon after being disembarking just off the US coast, in major eastern ports like New York, Boston and even in the Gulf including New Orleans and Mobile.

If the Allies couldn't win the u-boat war, D-Day is almost impossible, not to mention the lend-lease to the UK and Soviets.

 

[nolaspe]

I'm about halfway thru and it is pretty intense...

 

[Saintman2884]

Battle of the North Atlantic was an underapprecaited aspect of WW2. At one point in late 42 the Axis was actually sinking tonnage faster than it could be replaced. Long range U-boats (Type IX) were even attacking individual ships soon after being disembarking just off the US coast, in major eastern ports like New York, Boston and even in the Gulf including New Orleans and Mobile.

If the Allies couldn't win the u-boat war, D-Day is almost impossible, not to mention the lend-lease to the UK and Soviets.

The German U-boat "wolf-pack" subs had more success in the North Atlantic than let's say the GOM, because the US Navy or Coast Guard actually set up submarine nets in Gulf Coast cities like Mobile, New Orleans, Houston, Tampa and even trapped many of them. I've personally seen some of these submarine nets that were used at Dauphin Island during WWII.

The GOM, obviously is a more difficult hunting zone for German U-boats simply because compared to the massive Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, it's a relatively small body of water and even by late 1942, any halfway rational German U-boat squadron commander wouldn't have decided to stay there too long compared to Atlantic theater because of coastal patrols, who had developed more effective, defense strategies.

ReichsKriegsMarine (German Navy) had less success attacking Allied ship convoys sending arms, weapons, supplies, food to Soviet ports because they these convoys used trade routes that bypassed the North Atlantic and into Russian ports like Vladivostok and further past the Bering Straits and into the Arctic Ocean and the Barents Sea. These are some of the most coldest, harshest, inhospitable climates year-round and would've made it very difficult for German wolf-pack subs to track, target and cause any significance damage to these convoys successfully.

One of the major reasons why the Allies won the North Atlantic was similar to why we established air supremacy by mid-late 1943 and March 1944 in deliberate, targeted terror bombings of German cities, remaining German-occupied Western Europe: Allied, including American military war production at full steam could produce more weapons, tanks, guns, battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers, troop convoys, troop reinforcements, outstretched the Germans ability to match them effectively or efficiently just like RAF and the US Army Air Force's resources of effective, trained pilots, planes, bombers outmatched, outmanned and out-classed Luftwaffe's attempts to stop or defeat them. The Allied High Command also had far more effective, decisive leadership compared to the morbidly obese, fat, morphine-addicted, increasingly detached from reality Luftwaffe head, Hermann Georing. After Georing's grandiose, illogical decision to try and relieve starving, surrounded German 6th Army soldiers at Stalingrad failed in November-December 1942, he was increasingly ignored, ridiculed, and ostracized by Hitler's inner circle and by the Prussian Junker generals and officer corps who never really accepted him anyway and regarded him as a loud-mouthed, arrogant buffoon.

Of all the branches of the German military during WWII, most German historians will tell you that the KriegsMarine was probably the least ideologically effected or supportive of Nazi racial propaganda, along with Rommel's Afrika Corps Panzer divisions in North Africa from 1941-1943.

 

[Goatman Saint]

you don’t give the German wolf packs nearly enough credit. They were built and trained for miserable North Atlantic weather. Until the US manufacturing overpowered Germany, by early 1942 Britain was on the edge of starvation. If Japan would’ve taken another 6 months to wait before Pearl Harbor it would’ve been very conceivable that England would’ve capitulated because of starvation. Churchill knew the one risk to England surviving, and my grandmother lived it.

 

[Krewe of Clyde's]

This looks like a good one. I am looking forward to finding out myself.