War Sailer - Netflix Series

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A couple friends in Bergen, Norway, get jobs on a cargo ship just in time for WW2 to break out, so their 18 month voyage turns into five years. One guy has a wife and three kids, the other is a bachelor. Basically, life during wartime. Isn't that a Talking Heads song? Anyway, it's a pretty good show.

P. S. The Germans built a submarine pen in Bergen which led to trouble that shows up in the show.

Submarine Pen in Bergen Today

From BattlefieldsWW2.com:

When the Germans conquered Norway in 1940, it gave them a golden opportunity to move their U-Boats closer to the front. Construction of a U-Boat bunker in Bergen started in 1941. The bunker had 3 dry boat pens, 3 wet ones, and one that was used for storage.

It was the Kriegsmarines’ 11th U-Boat Flotilla, transferred from Germany, who made its new headquarters in Bergen.

After the Allied landings in France in June 1944, there was a massive expansion of the U-boat base in Bergen. This led to a massive English air raid in October 1944, involving over 150 aircraft. The attack ended in a disaster when 193 Norwegians, among them 61 children at a nearby school, were killed. The bunker took several hits, but remained intact. Only two U-Boats were damaged.  Later the same month ended another attack without success when the 244 aircraft could not find the target due to heavy clouds. A few planes dropped their bombs, but did not hit the bunker.

The third and last air raid took place in January 1945, when 33 bombers loaded with "Tallboy" bombs attacked the base. The bunker took 3 direct hits. One of the bombs penetrated through the roof, damaged two U-Boats and killed 20 Germans.

As with the other German naval bases, the base in Bergen was named using the German phonetic alphabet. As it was located in Bergen, and ”Bruno” is phonetic for"B," it thus became Bruno.

The bunker is used today by the Norwegian Navy for the repair of submarines as well as storage.

From Wikipedia:

A large part of the work to build the bunker was carried out by around 2,000 prisoners of war from the Soviet Union and Poland. The bunker's roof consists of five-metre-thick reinforced concrete, where an entire year's Norwegian production of cement was used for the construction.

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The future of the submarine bunker is uncertain, as the Norwegian Navy's new submarines are too large for the docks in Bruno and will receive new service facilities at Haakonsvern .

P. P. S. Bombing of the school reminds me of another such incident during WW2 in Copenhagen.