War is brutal, exhausting, and, more often than not, meaningless. That's one key message that Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 World War II picture Das Boot puts across more powerfully than most war movies.

The jet boasted a top speed of approximately 540 miles per hour, far surpassing the fastest Allied piston-engine fighters.

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