Whereas the United States in 1942, of course, was a model of racial equality, and. After the German crew is taken prisoner, Carson jeers at them: "It's your first time looking at a black man, ain't it? Get used to it!" It's absolutely true that Nazi Germany persecuted black people. Jon Bon Jovi and Matthew McConaughey in U-571Ī generally B-list and exclusively American cast is headed up by Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton and Harvey Keitel, with the tokenish addition of TC Carson as an African-American cook. Bulldog's triumph was recovering the codebooks. Bletchley Park already had several Enigmas at this point. Damaged by depth charges, U-110 surfaced and was boarded by the Bulldog's crew, who collected all the papers they could find (no one spoke German, so they couldn't be selective), and an Enigma machine. On, German submarine U-110 attacked an allied convoy that included the British ship HMS Bulldog. The film seems to be based on the real story of Operation Primrose. Third, as eagle-eyed readers may already have noticed, the Enigma had actually been deciphered almost a year before this film is set – and seven months before the US entered the second world war. Three Enigma rotors were found, according to some sources, in a German sailor's trousers. The first capture took place in February 1940, when the U-33 was taken by HMS Gleaner off the coast of Scotland.
Second, by 1942, allied intelligence already had several Enigma machines. First, the real submarine U-571 was never captured, though it was sunk by an Australian plane off Ireland in 1944. Posing as a German supply crew, the American sailors plan to board the U-571 and steal its Enigma. It's spring 1942, and an American submarine is making its way through the Atlantic.
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