U-571: Tropes

Signature tropes

The ones that say the most about U-571. Pick one to read it.

• Artistic License – Shipsin 154 titlesThe German destroyer hunts for U-571 with sonar pings, even though the Kriegsmarine never developed active sonar (the one with pings) and relied on passive sonar (very sensitive listening devices).Read →
• Sink the LifeboatsRare · in 6 titlesTo prove how evil the German U-boat crew is.Read →
• Artistic License – Historyin 3,078 titlesThe real U-boat which got captured and from where the Enigma machine was retrived was designated U-110, not U-571, and was merely forced to resurface and abandoned after being attacked by two British…Read →
• Someone Has to Diein 64 titlesThe climax of the film and the moment Tyler's development comes to a head.Read →
• A Father to His Menin 814 titlesTyler who's good buddies with his fellow officers, an older brother figure to the enlisted, has a good respected advisor in the Chief's and in an era when the military was still heavily segregated ev…Read →
• America Won World War IIin 65 titlesinvoked Infamously so. In Real Life, the Enigma Machine was stolen from a German submarine...Read →