What's your favorite submarine movie?

[brewens]

9. Das Boot hands down. I'd like to see a real good effort at US Navy submarine movie

made like Das Boot. There would be no shortage of sub careers and harrowing missions to portray. But you just know they wouldn't be able to help ruining it by going over the top.

Like the dogfights in Red Tails. I couldn't even finish watching it. If you really know WWII air combat, one scene in there is ridiculous. This German ace can make this wicked maneuver that basically flips his 109 around. Supposedly, one of the Red Tail Mustang pilots figures out how to do it to defeat him, if I remember right. Actually, I don't think I even saw that. I could just tell that was going to be what would happen later.

Mustang's weren't that kind of fighter plane. 109's were smaller and more limber. A Mustang pilot wouldn't get in a tight turning dogfight with one of those guys. Same with how our guys fought the Japanese Zero in the Pacific. You used "zoom and boom" tactics. They had speed, durability and power over the Zero, with almost all of our fighter models. You made sure you had an altitude advantage and used that to dive on them, blow into them and fire, and hope for hits and climb or dive away.