How did Gable and other survivors get rescued?

The movie starts with Gable's sub getting sunk in the Bungo Straits. Then we see Gable and fellow submariners bobbing in the water amidst the sub's wreckage. The movie then quickly fast-forwards to Gable pulling desk duty at Pearl Harbor, with nary a mention of what had to have been a miraculous resuce of the survivors of that sinking.

Now, I could be wrong, but I'm assuming (only assuming!) that they were picked up by another sub that luckily happened to be in the same area. Again, I could be wrong, but I think it was still too early in the war for there to be other U.S. surface ships or even PBY Catalinas available to resuce them that far into Japanese homeland waters. I'm assuming the Navy had other subs working as a group in Area 7, and one of them came to the rescue.

In any case, it woulda' been nice if the movie had included an additonal scene of the rescue of these guys (in whatever form it was - again, I'm assuming another U.S. sub), before the story flipped instantly to Gable sitting at his desk in Pearl. Just my humble opinion here, but, I think that would have made it a more interesting war movie, and certainly a more interesting sub movie, because subs did in fact carry out rescue missions of downed fliers, etc. (just ask George Bush, Sr., rescued by the USS Finback) So, it would have been cool to see that facet of their wartime capacities.





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