The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) contributed to its refusal by the Vatican who called it "blasphemous." In Norman Jewison's 1973 film version of "Jesus Christ Superstar", in the Last Supper sequence, Jesus and the 12 apostles briefly mimic the posture of each character in Da Vinci's painting The painting is parodied in Mel Brooks's movie "History of the World, Part I", making Leonardo a contemporary of Jesus. It is also parodied in the original movie "MASH", in the scene where Hawkeye Pierce stages a "last supper" for Walt (Painless) Waldowski before his planned suicide. The various doctors, all in surgical scrubs, pose in imitation of
Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci (1939) "Leonardo da Vinci" was assigned to a special operation aimed at mounting raids on harbours on the eastern seaboard of the United States. To this end she was converted to carry a , and during the autumn engaged in trials with the new weapon. However, the operation was delayed due to the need for modifications to the CA craft and "Leonardo da Vinci" returned to action to the Atlantic. On 19 March 1943 "Leonardo da Vinci" torpedoed and sank the 7,628 ton British cargo ship in the South Atlantic. "Leonardo da Vinci" captured and took on board one survivor; two