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[challenge entry] Yes it's a pie-chart, what of it?

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(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:13, archived)
# For the same principal see the film U-571
historical re-writing at its "best"....

Where upon, the crew of Royal Navy ship HMS Bulldog, US navy submarine commanded by British Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell US Lieutenant Commander Dahlgren. Captured an intact enigma machine and code books from U-boat U-110 U-517 in May 9, 1941 1942.

hmmmmm

(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:15, archived)
# bloody hell that movie was so wrong, it was down right offensive.
(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:19, archived)
# indeed
In 2006, screenwriter David Ayer admitted that U-571 distorted history....

"It was a distortion...a mercenary decision...to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience."
(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:25, archived)
# Mercenary...That sounds about right
Because only a fool would allow money to influence him into changing history for the sake of propaganda
(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:48, archived)
# "They got one thing right in the movie. There were U-Boats in the North Atlantic during the Second World War."
(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:19, archived)
# hahahhaha!
(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:24, archived)
# I like this, which does the Americans no favours
For authenticity, the stage crew made a working submarine for filming in the Mediterranean off of Malta. During production, an American warship appeared and was so taken in by the Nazi submarine they actually sent an armed team to board it.
(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:35, archived)
# according to
Spielberg Hollywood in general

very much woo
(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:15, archived)
#
Hollywood Americans
(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:16, archived)
# hmm
looks like showers
(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:17, archived)
# according to
Speilberg Hollywood America in general.

I mean, fair enough, we couldn't have won without them, but they couldn't have won without us and all the other allies either.
(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:17, archived)
# Teddy Duchamp's dad stormed the beaches at Normandy
DON'T FORGET THAT!
(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:15, archived)
# Ha ha ha! Come on, Choppy! Bite my ass, Choppy! Bite my ass!
(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:18, archived)
# And don't forget the three Swedes that were lying on the beach and decided to spontaneously join in the conflict


(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:20, archived)
#
To be fair to Spielberg Saving Private Ryan depicted the landings on Omaha beach, which WAS exclusively American troops. So pretty accurate then really...
(, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 15:48, archived)