Above Us the Waves prt 9 0f9

This is based on true events which took place in the UK and Norway during the Second World War.The German battleship Tirpitz was wreaking havoc on British shippimg in the North Sea.It was anchored in a remote and inaccessible Norwegian fjord and was impervious to attacks from the air or from the sea using conventional surface vessels or ordinary submarines.The British Admiralty devised a plan to destroy the ship by using manned ,midget submarines to inflitrate the anchorage and destroy the ship

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• battleship
• Tirpitz
• wwii
• navy
• germany
• royal
• submarine
• dive
• mine
• war
• norway
• weapon
• military
• history
• world war
• warfare
• politics

[tedjinla]

X3, not X2 was trapped under Tirpitz. Duffy's X2 simply stopped because they were blind after the periscope and the "side cargo" were damaged. You can see that Duffy's sub was not trapped underneath because when the charges do go off, they are hundreds of feet away while John Mills and the other survivors watch in horror.

Brave men's lives are not to be wasted unless impossible to avoid. In reality, X2 (really X-5) was sunk by depth charges from a German picket boat.

[videomonkey2009]

@tedjinla oops! My error. Watch Danger UXB on my channel. You may like that if you like WWII stories. Hope you enjoyed film anyway. :)

[tedjinla]

So why didn't Duffy, realizing that he could no longer press home an attack on Tirpitz, simply DROP his slowly flooding "side cargoes" and then move away from them while continuing to wait it out on the bottom?

Or should I just suspend my disbelief?

[videomonkey2009]

@tedjinla If Im right about what your saying then as the tide went out the tirpitz settled on the little sub and trapped it. They had to wait until the tirpitz rose again so they could get away. I would have freaked myself being trapped under Tirpiz and knowing other were also trying to blow her up while trapped there.

[patp464]

Great movie --- quite exciting. However, weren't there 5 X-craft?  Anyway, thanks for sharing a great movie.

[whiskeyify]

Always liked watching these films when I was young...the British films are more serious than our US war movies I guess.  There's some fine actors here as well.

[tedjinla]

I did indeed enjoy this movie, one of the finest WW2 films ever made, and one of my favorites when I was a kid. The producers took artistic license with the facts but what else is new? Using this plot line, they captured the determination, bravery and self-sacrifice of the crew of the X2 to highlight the pathos of war. You never forget Duffy's hand organ floating on the waves at the end.

Thanks for posting.

[12ock]

awesome invention of those submarine.... but i wish they have come back....home on the sub..

[videomonkey2009]

@crzxr The first of the few. Ahh good film in my that is in my collection. Mitchels Priv Sec had loads of stuff she showed me that she'd brought back from Buckingham palace after a visit she's made for some award. It was great to hear stories of the the little things about MItchel (He wasnt a man you would give a lot of lip and a stickler for doing the job the best way he knew ) He based the Spits wing on the peregrin falcon for speed. Fond memorys

[crzxr]

@videomonkey2009 Yes, I am lucky indeed. I imagine, given your own good fortune in knowing Mitchell's secretary, you are a devotee of 'The First of the Few' , the biopic of R.J.Mitchell? - Another inspiring film (with a great score by William Walton!) Thanks again.