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* LongRunners: Has been on the air for forty ''continuous'' years and counting.
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* LongRunners: Has been on the air for forty fifty ''continuous'' years and counting.
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** Admiral Karl Dönitz's obsessive use of radio proved to be one of the downfalls of the U-boats. He would send boats as many as 70 messages a day, wanting to know where they were and how they were doing. The Allies adapted to this by developing Huff-Duff, which allowed them to zero in on a U-boat's position from their use of radio.
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** Admiral Karl Dönitz's UsefulNotes/KarlDonitz's obsessive use of radio proved to be one of the downfalls of the U-boats. He would send boats as many as 70 messages a day, wanting to know where they were and how they were doing. The Allies adapted to this by developing Huff-Duff, which allowed them to zero in on a U-boat's position from their use of radio.
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** Erich Topp also mentions that he and his fellow U-boat commanders suspected that their Enigma Codes had been compromised by the Allies, but Dönitz and his staff believed this was an impossibility.
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** Erich Topp also mentions that he and his fellow U-boat commanders suspected that their Enigma Codes had been compromised by the Allies, but Dönitz UsefulNotes/KarlDonitz and his staff believed this was an impossibility.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The Type XXI U-Boat, as mentioned in "Hitler's Lost Sub." It was streamlined, could replenish its air while submerged, and was faster underwater than surfaced. Only they weren't ready until May 1945, less than a week before the end of the war.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: AwesomeButImpractical:
** In "Bombing Hitler's Supergun", the American solution is to fill a B-24 Liberator bomber with explosives, get it airborne, and then have the pilot bail out and remotely fly and crash it into the target. Unfortunately, the electronics of the day just aren't up to the task: an enlisted man on the project realizes too late that an errant radio signal could cause the firing circuit to trigger early (something that a more advanced receiver would have been able to prevent), possibly starting a fatal fire. He's unable to convince his superiors, and sure enough, the plane explodes in midair, killing pilot Joe Kennedy, Jr. (the older brother of future President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, then a Navy officer serving in the Pacific).
** The Type XXI U-Boat, as mentioned in "Hitler's Lost Sub." It was streamlined, could replenish its air while submerged, and was faster underwater than surfaced. Only they weren't ready until May 1945, less than a week before the end of the war.
** In "Bombing Hitler's Supergun", the American solution is to fill a B-24 Liberator bomber with explosives, get it airborne, and then have the pilot bail out and remotely fly and crash it into the target. Unfortunately, the electronics of the day just aren't up to the task: an enlisted man on the project realizes too late that an errant radio signal could cause the firing circuit to trigger early (something that a more advanced receiver would have been able to prevent), possibly starting a fatal fire. He's unable to convince his superiors, and sure enough, the plane explodes in midair, killing pilot Joe Kennedy, Jr. (the older brother of future President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, then a Navy officer serving in the Pacific).
** The Type XXI U-Boat, as mentioned in "Hitler's Lost Sub." It was streamlined, could replenish its air while submerged, and was faster underwater than surfaced. Only they weren't ready until May 1945, less than a week before the end of the war.
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** "Frozen In Time" has a crew finding the intact ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Bird Kee Bird]]'' - a B-29 that was abandoned in Greenland during the [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cold War]]. Sadly an attempt to get it off the ice resulted in the craft catching fire and being destroyed.
* DownerEnding: "B-29: Frozen In Time" has a crew finding the intact ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Bird Kee Bird]]'' - a B-29 that was abandoned in Greenland during the [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cold War]]. Sadly an attempt to get it off the ice resulted in the craft catching fire and being destroyed.
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/hitlers-supergun.html "Bombing Hitler's Supergun"]]. Joe Kennedy Jr. (UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy's older brother) attempts to fly a remote-controlled bomb into the WaveMotionGun to destroy it, but an electrical fault causes the plane to explode in midair before he can bail out of it as planned. Allied troops reach the supergun site a month later to discover that an earlier British attack with "Tallboy" ground-penetrating bombs had already destroyed the site.
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/hitlers-supergun.html "Bombing Hitler's Supergun"]]. Joe Kennedy Jr. (UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy's older brother) attempts to fly a remote-controlled bomb into the WaveMotionGun to destroy it, but an electrical fault causes the plane to explode in midair before he can bail out of it as planned. Allied troops reach the supergun site a month later to discover that an the earlier British attack with "Tallboy" ground-penetrating bombs had already destroyed the site.
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** Poor David Pogue has to wear a rectal probe to track his core temperature when testing out US Army extreme weather gear in [[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/making-more-stuff.html#making-stuff-colder "Making Stuff Colder"]].
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** Poor David Pogue has to wear a rectal probe to track his core temperature when testing out US Army extreme weather gear in [[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/making-more-stuff.html#making-stuff-colder "Making Stuff Colder"]]. The look on his face when he finds this out is worth a laugh.
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* ThisCannotBe: In "Hitler's Lost Sub," the divers return to the U-Boat archives with proof of the wreck's positive identification. However, the curator refuses to believe his archives are inaccurate considering he had spent 50 years carefully going through all official records to build them. However, he accepts it when they show him the engine room tag with the boat's number.
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* ThisCannotBe: In "Hitler's Lost Sub," the Sub":
** The divers return to the U-Boat archives with proof of the wreck's positive identification. However, the curator refuses to believe his archives are inaccurate considering he had spent 50 years carefully going through all official records to build them. However, he accepts it when they show him the engine room tag with the boat's number.
** The divers return to the U-Boat archives with proof of the wreck's positive identification. However, the curator refuses to believe his archives are inaccurate considering he had spent 50 years carefully going through all official records to build them. However, he accepts it when they show him the engine room tag with the boat's number.
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* {{Retirony}}: In "Hitler's Lost Sub," it's mentioned that Martin Horenberg, the radio operator of U-869, had served in the U-boat force for the entire war, making it a miracle he was still alive by the time they sailed. They were sunk three months before the end of the war.
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* DatedHistory: "Hitler's Lost Sub" describes U-boat sailors as apolitical, with one historian mentioning that Nazi party membership was forbidden while on active duty. However, this plays into the "Clean Wehrmacht" myth that German soldiers weren't enthusiastic supporters of the regime. Indeed, as the war progressed and the U-boat Force needed more replacements, it became the most Nazified service with young members who had barely finished their indoctrination in the Hitler Youth.
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** "Frozen In Time" has a crew finding the intact ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Bird Kee Bird]]'' - a B-29 that was abandoned in Greenland during the [UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cold War]]. Sadly an attempt to get it off the ice resulted in the craft catching fire and being destroyed.
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** "Frozen In Time" has a crew finding the intact ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Bird Kee Bird]]'' - a B-29 that was abandoned in Greenland during the [UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cold War]]. Sadly an attempt to get it off the ice resulted in the craft catching fire and being destroyed.
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** "Frozen In Time" has a crew finding the intact ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Bird Kee Bird]]'' - a B-29 that was abandoned in Greenland during the ColdWar. Sadly an attempt to get it off the ice resulted in the craft catching fire and being destroyed.
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** "Frozen In Time" has a crew finding the intact ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Bird Kee Bird]]'' - a B-29 that was abandoned in Greenland during the ColdWar.[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cold War]]. Sadly an attempt to get it off the ice resulted in the craft catching fire and being destroyed.
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* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: In "Hitler's Lost Sub," it is mentioned that the German submariner received the kind of adulation that American astronauts received. During World War II, they had the best food, the best pay, better opportunities for advancement, and were regarded as an elite service.
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* SerendipitousSurvival: In "Hitler's Lost Sub," one member of the crew of U-869 survived because he was hospitalized with pneumonia shortly before the boat left Norway. Decades later, he learned about the discovery of his boat off the coast of New Jersey and contacted the producers of what ultimately became the NOVA episode.
