does the u-505 have a problem with the stuka and spitfire being friends? what's up with that?
U-505 is of two minds about it.
On the one hand, war machines operate by a lot of rules about how they can engage with each other based on who won what. And in this situation, because the Allies won World War II, Spitfire gets to set the terms.
Technically, if Stuka wanted to avoid this, he could simply not engage with Spitfire at all (assuming Spitfire also chose not to engage). That he seems to have no qualms about letting Spitfire dictate the terms though?
"Have you no dignity?" U-505 asks.
"<No. I lost the same war you did>," so says Stuka.
But then, Stuka and Spitfire are also afforded some latitude in how they interpret these rules. The British did win, but only just. Means there's some room in the off hours for Stuka to win a battle or two. And Stuka, you'll recall, also does not consider himself to have been captured and so thinks prize rules do not apply to him. It's also been decades since the war ended and there was a good ten years before U-505 showed up to have an opinion it.
Ultimately, though, U-505 leaves well enough alone. When Spitfire and Stuka are in disagreement, Stuka prefers to loiter around U-505's exhibit. Better that they entertain each other than Stuka spend all his time down there with him, intruding on his solitude, trying (and sometimes succeeding) to get him to slip in to speaking German, and making it look like they're up to something.
It is very annoying when 727 arrives in the 90's and states her interest in U-505 because now the war planes get their turn to have an opinion on what he's doing.
"<If a beautiful plane wants you>," says Stuka, "<then you should let her have you.>" Especially if she's American (or United, as it is).
No one wants wisdom from a little plane though. Idiot unterseeboot.
