In World War II, Lethal German U-Boats sailed all over the world wreaking havoc and destruction. This unique documentary series charts the true close-run fight that took place. With rare, original footage of actual battle scenes and interviews with U-boat commanders and crew members from both Allied and Axis naval forces. These three episodes give the viewers an inside look at the destructive nature of these deadly "Iron Coffins"
U-Boat War Season 1
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U-Boat War
1997In World War II, Lethal German U-Boats sailed all over the world wreaking havoc and destruction. This unique documentary series charts the true close-run fight that took place. With rare, original footage of actual battle scenes and interviews with U-boat commanders and crew members from both Allied and Axis naval forces. These three episodes give the viewers an inside look at the destructive nature of these deadly "Iron Coffins"
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U-Boat War Season 1 Full Episode Guide
The largest U-Boat housed 44 crew members who lived in their weapons of war for days on end in cramped and squalid conditions. Of the 38,000 men who fought in these machines during World War II, 30,000 would die in their iron coffins. Experience the Allied strategies and tactics of the 1943 that caused the men in the U-boats to suffer the highest mortality rate of any fighting unit in the history of war.
From New York to Florida, Americans were unaware that just a few miles off their shores, Hitler's U-boat fleet terrorized American coastal waters and vessel after vessel went down in one of the greatest maritime disasters of all time
U-Boats were active from the first day of the war to the last. The menace provoked Winston Churchill to write, "The threat 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 World War II." Witness in actions of the famed Wolf Packs in this riveting episode
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