How Come No One Is Talking About This Movie

........Actually the Germans did succeed in building one large aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin, not to be confused with the nineteen thirties airship of the same name. It would have carried Stuka dive bombers and ME 109 fighters and used a steam catapult launching system like that used on U.S., British and Japanese carriers. It would was at least as large as the ship in the movie........The German navy also mounted a flight deck and catapult on a freighter research landing and take off techniques, but its lack of a hanger deck and it inability to handle more then one plane at a time made it unsuitable for operational use...........Early in the war the Germans sent some pilots to Japan to study carrier operations. With the entry of the United States into the war the Japanese navy had its own priorities and Germans could not easily send personal to Japan. The program was ended........Fortunately for the allies the different branches of the German military were not very good at thinking out of the box or working together. The navy and the air force couldn't work procedural maters out. The Graf Zeppelin was launched, towed to another ship yard to be fitted out, but it never went out to sea..........Toward the end of the war the Nazis ordered the ship scuttled to keep it out of Soviet hands. After the war the Soviets raised the carrier, but in a move that defies logic, they towed it out into Baltic and sunk it. The Soviet Union did not have any aircraft carries of its own till the nineteen eighties............Of course the military intelligence, much less a Hollywood screen writer, didn't have information on all this. Tracey's character was supposed to go out in a blaze of glory and the idea of one man taking out a German carrier would have appealed to wartime audiences even though a pocket battleship would have been more historically accurate..........As for the ending of course this is a movie. If a female pilot had taken the conrols of a P-38 and successful bombed an enmy amonition dump it would have become part of military history. The public information people would have surpressed details like she took the plane so the man she was in love with would go on the mission, but story would have become part of the war effort if it had really happened.
I'm not Spartacus. The dude over there in the sandals who looks like Kirk Douglas is.

I'll accept your explanation about the rest of the crew, even though we never saw them. The producers were probably too cheap to hire more actors.

I know about the so-called German aircraft carriers but the Neuschwabenland was more a tender than a carrier. The "other one," the KMS Graf Zeppelin, was never even completed. Construction was halted in 1943 and the ship was docked in the harbor at Stettin and used as a floating warehouse for U-boat parts for the rest of the war.