Real Time History

Season 2025, Episode 1

Episode Title: U-Boats Unleashed: Battle of the Atlantic 1940

Air Date: 2025-01-03

Overview:

In the summer of 1940, Great Britain is under attack in the air and at sea. German U-Boat wolf packs prowl the Atlantic and sink over a million tons of shipping. German skippers call this the “happy time” — but was the German Navy actually that successful early in the Battle of the Atlantic?