268: War at Sea '41 Pt. 6 - Aces Down
History of the Second World War

268: War at Sea '41 Pt. 6 - Aces Down

B1IntermediateJuly 29, 202626 min

This episode follows the Battle of the Atlantic through the costly weeks of March 1941, when Germany lost three of its most celebrated U-boat commanders: Günther Prien, Joachim Schepke, and Otto Kretschmer. It examines the expanding British convoy-escort system, the battle surrounding convoy HX-112, and the decisions that pushed Dönitz to disperse his boats farther west and toward West Africa. Those losses marked the end of one phase of the U-boat war, even as rising German production and the approaching entry of the United States pointed toward an even larger struggle ahead. "One sc...

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The Battle of the Atlantic would be the longest battle of the Second World War, although that seems like a bit of a cheat since it did not behave like a traditional battle at all. The term was a publicity idea from Churchill, and it hides the fact that the Battle of the Atlantic was actually made up of countless small independent actions.

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