SPRING, 1942
HITLER'S U-BOATS WREAK HAVOC IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC...
SINKING OVER 1000 ALLIED SHIPS AND...
THREATENING TO DESTROY...
THE SUPPLY LINE FROM AMERICA TO ENGLAND.
UNABLE TO CRACK THE NEW U-BOAT RADIO CODES...
ALLIES STRUGGLE BLINDLY AGAINST THE GERMAN ONSLAUGHT.
Enemy speed eight.
Angle to the bow, sixty.
Enemy speed eight. Angle to bow, sixty.
Mark is set.
Depth is set.
Range, five hundred.
In firing range.
Torpedo speed, 35 knots.
Spread shots from tubes one and four!
Tubes 1 and 4 ready.
Spread shots.
Fire!
Torpedoes running.
5, 4, 3...
2, 1...
Jawoh!
Ja!
Great shot, Captain.
Yes, gentlemen.
We broke their back, gentlemen.
Fast screws! Bearing 180!
A destroyer!
Down to 90 meters.
Both motors full ahead!
All hands forward!
Seal torpedo hatches!
Starboard rudder twenty!
Starboard rudder twenty.
Check all hull openings!
Come about.
Passing 200 degrees.
45 meters. Fast dive, Captain.
Both hydroplanes, please.
Steady at 220 degrees.
Contact drawing right.
Port engine stop.
Port engine stopped.
Port engine half back.
Depth charges!
Hold on!
The Tommies are crapping all over us!
Careful, that's fuel leaking!
Stop that leak!
She's dropped to 120 meters, Captain.
Blow all tanks! Surface! Surface!
Everything clear. Lockouts to the bridge!
Diesel room, answer me!
I need a damage report, Hans!
They're all dead, Captain. All our mechanics.
The Chief Mechanic, the fat kid...
the whole engine crew. All dead.
Port exhaust hatch broke.
Port diesel is flooded.
Crankcase is full of seawater. Starboard diesel...
seized 2 days ago.
What about my batteries?
Damaged. 300 amps bow, 200 stern.
It's useless!
We have only enough power to dive and maybe maneuver.
Thank you, Hans. Pass the word to conserve electricity.
- Radioman! - Captain?
To Berlin:
Location 85-32.
Diesel engines out. Electric motors only.
Send help.
I understand...
your family's from Koblentz.
Good Rhine farming folk.
You understand me?
Can you speak passable German?
Can you read and write it?
Or are you just a farm boy...
with a German name?
Just a farm boy...
who can read, write and speak quite well.
I studied German at Brown University...
before joining the war.
Thank you, Wentz.
Okay, let's give it a test.
You said you could repair engines?
Captain...
I apprenticed in my uncle's garage, fixing scooters
I tried.
Damn it!
I need a mechanic!
What are they saying?
They desire to be our guests.
Impossible. Shoot them.
What, sir?
Standing orders of the Führer:
Pick up no survivors.
If they are found...
they will report our position.
Go on.
Our comrades have brought us fresh eggs...
and even our mail.
Welcome!
Have we got a job for you.
Which of you are the mechanics?
Who's the mechanic?
We're all very skilled mechanics.
We'll have you underway before dawn.
Look at this!
Who wants that junk?
Pornography and dirty letters...
stinking of French perfume.
A sack of pure shit.
I should throw it overboard.
Come aboard.
Come.
Welcome aboard.
Aren't you from Wiesbaden?
Alarm!
Repel boarders! Alarm dive!
Flood all the tanks!
Let's drown these vermin! Move your asses!
Faster! Down!
Hello, gentlemen.
Give us a hand.
Sure.
What are they doing?
Something's wrong.
Back to the ship!
Faster!
Get the forward gun! They're firing!
Who, sir?
The submarine. They blew up our radio tower!
Short intervals.
Prepare charges.
Set depth 25.