I have quite recently watched the movie "Greyhound" a movie about what I assume is a US destroyer conducting convoy duties during the war. I don't really know what to think about this movie. It is better than the U 571, but all movies are better than that one.

I haven't seen a lot of naval "war" movies. I can't recall any movie about a destroyer, a destroyer escort, a frigate, a corvette, and/or any other smaller surface ship. There are a few submarine/U-boat movies.

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I have quite recently watched the movie "Greyhound" a movie about what I assume is a US destroyer conducting convoy duties during the war. I don't really know what to think about this movie. It is better than the U 571, but all movies are better than that one.

I haven't seen a lot of naval "war" movies. I can't recall any movie about a destroyer, a destroyer escort, a frigate, a corvette, and/or any other smaller surface ship. There are a few submarine/U-boat movies.

A classic is ""The sea shall not have them""

It is the autumn of 1944. Allied armies are sweeping through France towards Germany. A British Lockheed Hudson has been damaged in aerial combat with a German Messerschmitt, with both aircraft ditching in the North Sea, twenty miles off the Dutch coast. The four crew from the British aircraft are unable to send a complete mayday alert, although a signal fragment reaches England. Among them is Air Commodore Waltby (Michael Redgrave) who has a briefcase containing secret German plans related to rocketry. Flight Sergeant Mackay (Dirk Bogarde) assumes a leading role in the rescue dinghy, tying everyone together to prevent anyone falling overboard, and sharing his boots with the pilot despite the cold. As the weather closes in and a freezing cold night descends, aircraft suspend their search, leaving the now waterlogged dinghy to face the sea alone. Cryptically, Waltby orders the crew members that if he dies, they must get the briefcase to London or throw it overboard should they face capture.

An RAF Air Sea Rescue sea launch is deployed to the search. Commanded by Flying Officer Treherne (Anthony Steel), Launch 2561, or "Sixty One" in radio signals, struggles against the bad weather, mechanical problems and a fire in the galley. Second in command, Flight Sergeant Singsby (Nigel Patrick) dominates the crew, playing a benevolent but demanding hand with the questionable seamanship of junior ranks. On the second day, updated intelligence about the dinghy's likely location is received from the downed German Messerschmitt pilot, who the RAF has since rescued. RAF Air Sea Rescue is now aware the dinghy has drifted inshore, far from its ditching point. As the weather clears, "Sixty One" sights the dinghy and approaches for rescue, negotiating fire from enemy shore batteries and a mine field. Launch 2561 safely returns to England where the briefcase with secret documents is delivered. An injured Flying Officer Treherne and Flight Sergeant Mackay are applauded by senior officers.

Another classic is ""The Cruel Sea"" the story of HMS Compass Rose.

In late 1939, just as war breaks out, Ericson is recalled to the Royal Navy and given command of HMS Compass Rose, a newly built Flower-class corvette intended for convoy escort duties. His sub-lieutenants, Lockhart and Ferraby, are both newly commissioned and without experience at sea. The new first lieutenant, James Bennett (Stanley Baker), is an abusive martinet.

Despite these initial disadvantages, the ship's company gains hard experience and becomes an effective fighting unit. At first their worst enemy is the weather, since German submarines lack the range to attack shipping far into the Atlantic. With the Fall of France, French ports become available to the Germans and U-boats can attack convoys anywhere in the Atlantic – making bad weather the convoys' greatest advantage. Germany is joined in the war by Italy, while the Spanish dictator Franco allows Axis U-boats to use Spanish harbours. The first lieutenant is put ashore due to illness, the junior officers mature and the ship crosses the Atlantic many times escorting convoys, often in brutal weather. They witness the sinking of many merchant vessels they are charged with protecting and the tragic deaths of merchant navy crewmen. A key scene involves Ericson's decision to carry out a depth charge attack even though the blast will kill merchant seamen floating in the water. After close to three years of service, including one U-boat sunk, Compass Rose is herself torpedoed and her crew forced to abandon ship. Most of the crew are lost. Taking to a couple of liferafts, Ericson survives this ordeal along with his first lieutenant, Lockhart (Donald Sinden), and with the few crew left (including Ferraby) they are picked up the next day.

Ericson is promoted commander, and together with Lockhart, his now-promoted "Number One", takes command of a new Castle-class frigate, HMS Saltash Castle. With Ericson leading an anti-submarine escort group they continue the monotonous but vital duty of convoy escort. Late in the war, while serving with the Arctic convoys, they doggedly pursue and sink another U-boat, marked as U-53, Saltash Castle's only "kill". As the war ends the ship is shown returning to port, as guard to a number of German submarines that have surrendered.

I shall take a closer look at them both.

The Japanese made a movie about Yamato, but I have only seen the final moments of it. The movie Midway must be considered to be a naval war movie, I liked it. It had intense scenes when the US dive bombers dived toward the Jap carriers.

I have almost waited for a TV series about the naval war in the Pacific. Something similar as the Band of Brothers and the Pacific, but about a Fletcher class destroyer or a few destroyers.

I would like to see a remake of the movie Sink the Bismarck

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I shall take a closer look at them both.

The Japanese made a movie about Yamato, but I have only seen the final moments of it. The movie Midway must be considered to be a naval war movie, I liked it. It had intense scenes when the US dive bombers dived toward the Jap carriers.

I have almost waited for a TV series about the naval war in the Pacific. Something similar as the Band of Brothers and the Pacific, but about a Fletcher class destroyer or a few destroyers.

I would like to see a remake of the movie Sink the Bismarck

The careers of HMS Bulldog or HMS Cossack would make good viewing.

I watched a Norwegian TV series "The Heavy Water War." A Tv series about the Norwegian commando raid to destroy the heavy water facility in Rjukan, Norway.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3280150/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt


We can maybe discuss the German attempt to get nuclear weapons.

Originally Posted by I3BrigPvSk

I watched a Norwegian TV series "The Heavy Water War." A Tv series about the Norwegian commando raid to destroy the heavy water facility in Rjukan, Norway.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3280150/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt


We can maybe discuss the German attempt to get nuclear weapons.

There was a TV programme a few years ago regarding the SF Hydro. It was a Norwegian steam powered railway ferry that operated in the first half of the 20th century on Lake Tinn in Telemark. It connected with the Rjukan Line and Tinnoset Line, at Mæl and Tinnoset, operating between 1914 and 1944. The combined track and ferry service was primarily used to transport raw materials and fertilizer from Norsk Hydro's factory at Rjukan to the port in Skien. It was the target of a Norwegian operation on 20 February 1944, when resistance fighters sank the ferry in the deepest part of Lake Tinn to prevent Nazi Germany from receiving heavy water.

Many years after the war (1990's perhaps), a team of divers managed to bring up one or more of the heavy water barrels, after various tests it was still found to be heavy water, it hadn't degraded whatsoever.