Dec 20, 2020 · SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith carousing with US soldiers and a prosthetic leg taken from an Afghan man whom he killed. The leg was used as a beer drinking vessel at the SAS base in Afghanistan and was known as "Das Boot".

Dec 21, 2020 · Earlier today, photos of Victorian Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith emerged showing the soldier allegedly cheering on use of the macabre yard glass. Affectionately referred to as ‘Das Boot’, the trophy was carried throughout the Middle East by the SAS.

Das Boot (German pronunciation: [das ˈboːt], The Boat) is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann.

Dec 5, 2020 · Later it was mounted on a wooden plaque under the heading Das Boot, alongside an Iron Cross – a military decoration used in Nazi Germany. The leg travelled with the squadron at all times, one former trooper told the Guardian.

Jun 2, 2023 · Photographs featuring Ben Roberts-Smith alongside US soldiers holding an artificial limb known as “Das Boot”, have come back to haunt the decorated war veteran amid his defamation lawsuit against Nine newspapers.

Jan 8, 2022 · You can see “ Das Boot” infront of the Aussie flag, with a soldier pretending to drink out of the prosthetic leg.

Das Boot is a German television series produced by Bavaria Fiction for Sky One [1] [2] and a sequel to the film of the same name, based on Lothar-Günther Buchheim's book Die Festung, [2] [3] the series focuses on events on land and sea in World War II.

With Franz Dinda, Tom Wlaschiha, Rick Okon, Rainer Bock. An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in this WWII drama.

Das Boot is considered neuter. Ships in English may have an “all who sail in her” femininity, but apparently to the Germans they’re just functional, genderless machines.

Season one of 'Das Boot' was packed with action, drama, betrayals, and a final twist no-one saw coming. Here’s what you need to know to get caught up in time for season two. While it shares the name of the classic 1981 movie, this isn’t a remake.