U-Boat Wargamers

Sky History 2

7:00 PM to 8:05 PM

Thursday 12 September

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After the fall of France in 1940, Dönitz’s most famous U-boat commanders embarked on a race to send British merchant ships to the bottom of the sea. Driven by a fierce competition to sink the highest tonnage, they terrorised the North Atlantic convoys and converged on them in wolfpack attacks. All the while, Vera Laughton Mathew’s Wrens worked around the clock to bring the battle directly to Dönitz’s U-boats. When confronted with unprecedented losses, and the real risk of starvation, the British Royal Navy seized on a manoeuvre developed by the famous U-boat hunter, Commander Johnny F Walker. Narrated by Derek Jacobi