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Tom Hanks Commands a WWII Convoy, Dodges U-Boats in 'Greyhound'
https://www.military.com/daily-news...nds-wwii-convoy-dodges-u-boats-greyhound.html
Tom Hanks loved C.S. Forester's 1955 novel "The Good Shepherd" so much that he wrote a screenplay based on the book so he could star in a movie version.
Set in 1942, the movie features Hanks as newly minted U.S. Navy Cmdr. Ernest Krause, whose first mission is leading a convoy of 37 ships across the Atlantic. This would be a simple task, if not for the wolf packs of Nazi U-boats tasked with sinking every one of those Allied boats.
The trailer just debuted online.
Hopefully, the movie gets into this, too:
The Good Shepherd (novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Shepherd_(novel)
The book illustrates the difficulties of the Atlantic war: the struggle against the sea, the enemy, and the exhaustion brought on by constant vigilance. It also details the problems of the early radar and ASDIC equipment available and the poor communications between the fleet and Admiralty using HF Radio & early manual cryptography.
https://www.military.com/daily-news...nds-wwii-convoy-dodges-u-boats-greyhound.html
Tom Hanks loved C.S. Forester's 1955 novel "The Good Shepherd" so much that he wrote a screenplay based on the book so he could star in a movie version.
Set in 1942, the movie features Hanks as newly minted U.S. Navy Cmdr. Ernest Krause, whose first mission is leading a convoy of 37 ships across the Atlantic. This would be a simple task, if not for the wolf packs of Nazi U-boats tasked with sinking every one of those Allied boats.
The trailer just debuted online.
Hopefully, the movie gets into this, too:
The Good Shepherd (novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Shepherd_(novel)
The book illustrates the difficulties of the Atlantic war: the struggle against the sea, the enemy, and the exhaustion brought on by constant vigilance. It also details the problems of the early radar and ASDIC equipment available and the poor communications between the fleet and Admiralty using HF Radio & early manual cryptography.