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Battle of the Atlantic Season 1 Episodes

  • 2002-2003
  • 1 Season
  • Documentary, Action & Adventure
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In the European Theatre of World War II, in no other factor was Britain closer to defeat than in the Battle of the Atlantic. With U-Boats, Vice Admiral Karl Dönitz planned to starve the United Kingdom into submission by sinking vital shipping. This series recounts the struggle of the Allies to find a means to combat this menace with new technology and tactics and breakthroughs in decrypting enemy messages. Taken together, the longest battle of the war is surveyed with the fate of the free world in the balance.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

3 Episodes 2003 - 2003

Episode 1

Grey Wolves

45 mins

The dramatic events in the Second World War when German U-boats almost forced Britain into submission. The programme features reconstructions, archive material and testimony from British seamen who fought to keep open the supply line that linked the country with America.

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Episode 2

Keeping Secrets

45 mins

How the 1941 capture of an Enigma machine provided Britain with a means of striking back against Hitler's U-boats, which had claimed more than three million tons of Allied shipping in the first 18 months of World War Two. Featuring eyewitness accounts and testimony from both sides, dramatic reconstructions and archive material.

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Episode 3

The Hunted

45 mins

In 1942; Karl Dönitz commanded 342 U-Boats and hoped to strike a decisive blow on the convoys in which the Allied war depended. Fast on the surface, able to hide beneath it, the U-Boat seemed invincible. This is how the Allies fought back.

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