U-Boats - Churchill's Worse Nightmare DVD

Disc One - U Boat War: As the coastal neon burned brightly at night from New York to Florida Americans were unaware that just a few miles off the coast lurked one of the world's most potent military forces. Watch as the German U-Boat fleet dominated American coastal waters sinking vessel after vessel in what has to be one of the greatest maritime disasters of all time. Disc Two - U Boat War - Iron Coffins: Often referred to as 'Iron Coffins' the U-boats were crewed by 44 men who each spent their entire time at sea in cramped and squalid conditions. Of the 38 000... men that went to sea in these deadly craft only 8 000 were to survive to tell the tale. The defense of merchant shipping and the defeat of the U-boats became the Allies main priority in 1943. Here is the story of the strategy and tactics that were used to inflict catastrophic damage on one of the most dominant German fighting units of WWII. Disc Three - U Boat War - Sea Wolves: With the prime objective of sinking and disrupting the merchant shipping in the Atlantic U-boats were active from the first day of the war to the last. They created such chaos that Winston Churchill wrote ' The threat that the U-boats posed in the Atlantic was the only thing that really frightened me during the war. On their defeat hung the outcome of WWII'. In this riveting DVD German submarine strategies campaigns and leaders of the early days of WWII are recounted and reviewed particulary the actions of the famous 'Wolf Packs'. [show more]

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