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Fire.
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Darn it fleet is expanding and he will
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not rest until he sent every convoy ship
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to the bottom of the North Atlantic.
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>> Hitler
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Dit [music] has 300 Eubets. Monster wolf
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packs. We need more ships.
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>> You admirals are always asking for more
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and more ships. And when you get them,
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things get no better.
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>> This is war, not a bloody board game.
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>> We have designed these tactics as tools
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which will save you time when you're at
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sea. Seconds that can save lives.
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>> I want this convoy wiped out. God,
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destroyed.
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What if
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what if we don't prevail out there?
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>> I need results. Scott.
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>> And ladies, remember the work we are
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doing here is more important than ever.
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Never forget that.
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If there's going to be an unconditional
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surrender, [music] it will be theirs,
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not ours.
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Admiral Carl Dernitz, head of the Yubot
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fleet and rising star of the Nazi party,
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has been summoned by Hitler.
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>> [music]
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[music]
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[music]
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>> Dunit was a dedicated Nazi.
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He was with a Nazi cause. He believed in
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the furer. He loved the fur. He admired
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the furer. He said the furer is a
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genius. [clears throat]
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>> Hitler.
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After failing to stop the convoys using
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surface ships, the head of the German
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Navy has resigned.
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>> And Dernets is waiting in [music] the
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wings to take his place. He's absolutely
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thrilled. I won't let you down. This is
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>> because having nursed these ideas and
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ambitions [music]
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of winning the Atlantic War with Ubot,
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he's all of a sudden in control.
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And so from [music] January 1943, he
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feels that he's invincible and
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unstoppable.
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>> At Watu, the western approach's tactical
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unit, Captain Gilbert Roberts and Renene
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Lelaw, are tasked with devising
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anti-ubot tactics.
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>> Churchill always said that one of the
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things that he most feared in the war
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was the Atlantic war, was the Yubot war.
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Roberts and Laid Law at Watu feel this
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[music] pressure enormously.
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>> Ladies,
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I'm not going to sugarcoat this. We need
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food supplies.
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Dennit's fleet is expanding and he will
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not rest until he sent every convoy ship
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to the bottom of the North Atlantic.
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>> And ladies, remember the work we are
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doing here is more important than ever.
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And every one of you plays an essential
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part. Never forget that all of us, it's
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our job to prove that these tactics work
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to teach these officers.
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>> Uh, you too.
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>> Good morning, gentlemen.
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>> The officers attending the Watu
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Wargaming courses, learn the tactics
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they will use at sea.
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>> Watu now starts to give these courses to
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many, [music] many people. They run from
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Monday till Saturday every single week.
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day in day out from February uh 1942
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until the end of the war.
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>> Below you is the North Atlantic. Each
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line marks a mile. The Ubot will be
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invisible to you as they would be in
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normal conditions at sea. If you could
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take your places behind the screens,
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please.
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You have two minutes for your first
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move.
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Be decisive.
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Communicate effectively.
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>> Go.
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>> Wargaming has been used for centuries to
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test how armies might operate in a
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future war. It is the only way to
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explore how an enemy might think without
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actually fighting a battle with them.
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New German reactions were explored. They
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were then introduced into the training
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process so that in the battle space in
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the Atlantic when an order was given
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everybody knew what to do.
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>> This is not a game. This is training for
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war
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>> time.
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What scarce food supplies do get past
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the Ubot in the North Atlantic are
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spread thinly around the British Isles
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and Soviet territories.
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>> Good morning.
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>> Morning, sir.
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>> Rationing hit Britain incredibly hard.
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In 1943, you're allowed 4 ounces of
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bacon a week, 2 oz of butter. This is a
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very small. One egg, one fresh egg a
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week.
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>> One sausage, one slice of toast.
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>> One egg, one slice of toast.
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>> Together, they make quite a decent
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breakfast.
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>> And we're the lucky ones.
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>> True, true.
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I see the cues.
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>> Mothers having to say no all the time.
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You're not going to eat that, Gilbert.
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I don't seem to want to.
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>> Gilbert Roberts was cast out of the Navy
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because he had TB and his health has
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been an issue for him all through the
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war to the point where by the time 1943
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his weight was down to eight stone and
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on a man that [music] is dangerously
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underweight. But
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>> you have to eat.
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>> I know I should just can't find my
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appetite.
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They realize that every single day that
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they don't come up with a solution, more
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and more ships are going down. Ships not
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only means material, it also means human
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lives are being lost.
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One of the victories by Dennis's Yubot
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Wolfpacks comes in March of 1943.
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In mid-Atlantic, there were nearly a
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hundred Allied surface transports, what
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the Yubot might have called a
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target-rich environment. And Dunets
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vetored several wolf packs in their
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direction, and they had something of a
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field day.
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another hit. Disit has 300 EUetss
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monster wolf packs. We have nowhere near
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enough escorts to match that.
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>> But Roberts and Horton will not be
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outgamed.
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The Rens are set the task of wargaming
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the battle in real time. They add extra
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naval support ships to assess how many
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merchant vessels [music] could be saved.
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>> Ren, what's the tonnage lost so far?
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>> What are you waiting for? Find out.
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These two convoys traveling in tandem
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lost [music]
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22 ships to yubot attack. That's over
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300 lives.
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All of these men struggling desperately
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to get out of the boats before they slip
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underwater. These boats [music] go down
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in seconds. Not only was it a
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devastating loss to the war effort, but
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it was a tragic end to so many seaman's
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lives.
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If we had those support ships, we could
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have saved eight ships. As I've been
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telling the Admiral T for months, I
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can't wait for them to make up their
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bloody minds. If you want something
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done, do it yourself. I'm going to tell
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Churchill myself.
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There are times
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when I wonder is this how it's going to
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be for us.
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Losses,
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defeats.
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>> Don't think like that. Give it time.
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We'll show them.
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>> We will.
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But there must be times when you think
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what if
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what if we don't prevail out there.
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Of course, everyone thinks about that
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from time to time, but
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we have to fight those thoughts.
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Believe me, I do. The dark [music]
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nights of the soul and all that
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blood, toil, and sweat, as Churchill
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said.
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And he also said we must
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never surrender.
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>> We suddenly realized that this was a
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serious war.
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And then Churchill was doing these
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inspiring broadcasts. So we had
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considerable confidence in how we were
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going to cope with it.
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We would fight them on the beaches and
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fight them on the landing grounds, never
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surrender. And that's the sort of way we
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felt really.
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Despite his elevated rank, Cal Dernets
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maintains direct contact with his Yubot
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fleet in the North Atlantic.
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>> He's now the Grand Admiral Dunets.
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But first and foremost, he's a
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submariner.
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How do you win the war at sea? You win
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it under the ocean with your hubot. The
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sea war is the war of the hubot. It is a
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massive problem for Western approaches.
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Following Dernich's promotion, Rear
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Admiral Everheart Got is now head of
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Yubot operations.
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>> This isn't Stalingrad.
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This isn't North Africa.
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In the North Atlantic, we win our
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battles.
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>> 100 Ubot here
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stalking the Black Pit.
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100 being repaired.
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100 ready to be deployed.
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They don't stand a chance.
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They think they're going to invade
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France.
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How? How will they get their troops
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across?
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>> The sea war is the yubot war.
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If there's going to be an unconditional
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surrender, it will be theirs, not ours.
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>> March 1943 really was a very successful
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month for the Yubo force. And it looked
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like if if it's really going on like
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that every month, then maybe we really
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have the chance to bring uh Britain to
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her knees.
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Following the loss of over 300 lives in
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the March battles, Admiral Horton is
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determined to increase his fleet.
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>> Horton, I missed it.
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>> Drink.
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>> No, thank you.
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Prime Minister, we war gamed a scenario
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with two convoys in March. We added
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three groups of support ships, rapid
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response units that um
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Horton has an ace up his sleeve and he
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can prove that the ships will make a
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difference cuz he has the strategy. He
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has the war game that proves extra ships
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can turn the war around for Britain.
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>> 22 ships were lost in that battle.
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If we'd had the extra support ships, as
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I've been proposing to the Admiral T for
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months, we could have saved eight ships.
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Eight ships.
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Give me 15 [music] destroyers and we
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will beat the subs at their own game.
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You admirals. You admirals are always
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asking for more and more ships. And when
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you get them, things get no better.
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But the war game does convince
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Churchill. By the end of the month,
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Horton is granted his extra 15 warships,
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which he forms into five rapid response
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units.
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Amongst them is the destroyer HMS Oribe.
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In April 1943, it arrives in [music]
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Belfast for repairs.
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A young Ren is watching from the
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plotting room in Belfast Castle that
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day.
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>> HMS Orabe came in one day because she'd
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been so damaged during the storm. The
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first thing they did was to send a
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message to say, "Send us half a dozen
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rens down to have a drink."
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So half a dozen of us went down to the
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Arab to have a drink. And that's how it
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all began.
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>> The 22year-old Christian is about to
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meet someone who will change her life
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forever and involve her in one of the
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most ferocious battles of the North
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Atlantic.
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Another three depth charges.
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He'd already used every single depth
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charge on his ship. Where did he think
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he was getting another three from
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[sighs]
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Thankfully, they can make their mistakes
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here and not at sea.
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>> H
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could I ask you something? Do you think
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I mean
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should I talk more slowly
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and more quietly? I just tend to boom
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someone, wouldn't you say?
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At times perhaps
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>> in Robert's early lectures it was
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remarked upon that some of his speeches
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were garbled or unclear. His solution is
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brilliant. He goes to Liverpool theater
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where Tommy Handley is performing.
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>> Now go on buzz off. Bait your fishing ro
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with a sausage and catch a titl.
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>> A titler?
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>> Yes. An old titler. Tommy Hadley had a
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satirical radio show which took the mick
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out of Hitler which of course allowed
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him to teach Roberts, you know, these
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little, you know, references he could
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put into his talks to make them more
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interesting and engaging.
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>> I would like to get this thing right,
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get the message through, make them
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understand how important it is when
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they're out there.
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>> I think they do understand that.
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>> You know how I like to send them on
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their way with a [music] a memorable
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line. given courage. I want to know I'm
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doing it right.
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>> The prime minister,
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he's rather fond of pauses.
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>> Yes.
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>> H.
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>> Very well.
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>> Would you mind listening?
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>> Of course.
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>> The Battle of the Atlantic.
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The battle for the Atlantic.
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>> The Watu course is teaching
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communications and coordination. What
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it's doing is enabling the escorts to
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work together more efficiently to
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communicate more clearly and to trust
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each other better.
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>> Escort commander Peter Gretton is a firm
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believer in the Waju courses.
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Gretan was an exceptional officer and
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clearly one of the bright lights and one
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of the the great escort captains and
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anti-ubmarine captains of the Second
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World War.
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>> If you had used half raspberry rather
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than raspberry, this would not have
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happened.
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Have I made myself clear?
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>> Half raspberry. I I sir
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>> an error made in a war game
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>> good
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>> can often give you greater insight than
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complete success if everything runs
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smoothly and everything works what have
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you learned
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>> we have designed these tactics as tools
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which will save you time when you're at
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sea
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time that is crucial
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seconds that can save lives
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Sir,
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the battle of the Atlantic is unlike any
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other.
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It is the war of the little ships and
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the lonely aircraft, long, patient, and
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unpublicized
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against our two great enemies,
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the Yubot
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and the Cruel Sea.
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Good luck
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and [music] God speed. One of the most
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important convoy battles of the entire
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battle of the Atlantic and for that
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matter of the entire war was OS5.
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Dunis decided that he wanted to
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annihilate this convoy entirely [music]
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to demonstrate to the Allies that they
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could not venture onto this ocean, that
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that convoy could lose every ship in it.
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So,
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ONS5,
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it's one of the largest single convoys
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ever undertaken.
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43 ships bound for Halifax.
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On its return, it will be carrying tons
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of vital food and raw materials. If you
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have something to say, man, say it to
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me.
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We will be taking the north route.
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northwest to 61° 45 north 2911 west east
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of Eikt here and then southwest along
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the great banks of New Foundland.
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>> I know. I know. Ice.
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It's a risk. Yes, pack ice more so than
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Bergs. It can slow [music] us down,
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damage ships.
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But what would you rather have? Ice or
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more time in the Black Pit?
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The Atlantic air gap, known as the Black
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Pit, is so far from any air bases, the
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convoys traveling through it have no air
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support.
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As you know, we're on our own here.
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This is where the Wolfpacks prowl.
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They'll shadow us. They'll attack at
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night. That's their MMO.
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>> There is some good news. A number of
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longrange aircraft have been allocated
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to the convoys, but the weather is bad
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out there. Not even the VLRs can fly in
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those winds.
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>> If they could, there's a very small area
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here. Even they can't reach. We must
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have our wits about us.
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>> The Watu tactics. Raspberry, half
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raspberry, artichoke, all of them. Drill
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them in. Know them the back of your hand
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because out there we will need them.
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>> So
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observant,
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what's the formation?
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He was pretty hard driver. He could be
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quite clipped and quite sharp. Uh even
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dealing with a young graduate student
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asking him questions. Why don't you know
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this?
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It should be second nature by now.
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Sharpen up, man.
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At the drinks [music] party on HMS
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Ollie, Christian Holden meets first left
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tenant John Lamb.
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>> One of the things that I liked about him
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was his sense of humor, as we find a lot
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of things funny, which a lot of people
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don't find funny.
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John and I got engaged after 10 days.
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And of course, we were only visiting
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each other part of the day. It wasn't
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like 10 days in a hotel or something. It
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was just enough for us to realize that
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we liked each other enough.
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>> The feelings of the newly engaged couple
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are about to be tested to their very
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limit.
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>> [music]
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>> On April the 22nd off the coast of
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Scotland, ONS5 assembles, 43 merchant
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vessels and seven escorts.
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In formation, it covers [music] over 8
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and a half miles.
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With annihilation as their goal, Dunits
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and Gart reconfigure their wolf packs.
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>> Dunuts laid out the North Atlantic into
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a series of squares so that he could
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indicate to the Yubot in the Atlantic
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which grid was likely to be target rich.
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>> I think we moveer.
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Miser has 30.
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>> We'll reconfigure Miser. It's obvious.
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We take 16 boats from here and we'll
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form a new patrol line [music] north
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south between latitude 61° 50 and 57°
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north 400 m east of Greenland.
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We'll call it group star and they'll
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assemble at 0900 hours tomorrow morning.
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I [music] want this convoy wiped out.
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got
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destroyed.
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>> The convoy is facing of course the
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threat of donuts as yubot. This coming
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right after the mass sinkings in March.
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Everybody's very fearful that this is
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going to happen again. But then the
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weather turns against them as well and
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gale force winds start to hit the ships.
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The day after Christian gets engaged to
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John Lamb, HMS Oribe sails out into the
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North Atlantic on a secret mission.
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>> The next morning, after we'd seen the
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ship sailed down the estie, to imagine
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his going out into this dreadful storm,
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the ships were in great danger all the
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time. It was rarely the morning after he
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left when I realized a feeling of real
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fear of what you might lose,
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which was so dreadful to think of.
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As ONS5 also heads into the storm, there
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is another serious setback.
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The news from submarine tracking is bad.
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Expect Ubot in the general area of New
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Fountain.
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>> What?
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>> That's a large area, sir. Are there any
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bearings?
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>> If I had bearings, Ren, [music]
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I would give you bearings. Now get on.
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Code breakers at Brettley Park are
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unable to decipher the enigma coded
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messages from the Ubot. [music]
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>> What's going on?
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>> Why does this keep happening?
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>> If Horton knows where the Ubot are, he
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can get in contact with the escort
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commander of ONS5 and they can avoid the
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threat. I've
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>> got a convoy about to enter the Black
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Pit. No air cover. No. What?
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Well, as soon as you know, I need to
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[music] know.
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>> But in April 1943, he doesn't have the
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intel. He has no idea where the Ubot
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are. And that means that the convoy is
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heading into the unknown.
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They're like corks out there without
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cargo. We've already had one collision.
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>> Fuel at 62%. Sir,
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>> speed four knots.
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>> I shouldn't have to be dealing with
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this. A ship that guzzles fuel 8% a day.
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It's a fast. This is the North Atlantic.
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>> We'll never be able to fill her with
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these waves.
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We've got a few more days and that's it.
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>> HMS Duncan had boiler problems, so she
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was using more fuel than usual anyway.
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In addition, she was a fast destroyer,
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so her fuel use was very high.
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As Gretton [music] heads towards the
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Black Pit, the largest wolf pack of the
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Second World War begins to assemble.
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The captain of Ubot 650 is hunting for
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prey.
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>> Mast head spotted.
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>> Message to Ubot headquarters. Convoy
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spotted. Speed 8 to 10 knots. Bearing
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270.
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>> The message is ciphered on the Enigma
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machine and radioed to Yubot command.
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That message would tell Dennuts what was
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coming, where it was coming, at what
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speed.
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He would then use the grid coordinates
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00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,159
of the North Atlantic to send his own
553
00:29:00,159 --> 00:29:04,320
messages out to other Ubot in the area,
554
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,640
ordering them to congregate in the
555
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,600
appropriate spot so that they could all
556
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:14,360
attack the convoy as a Wolfpack.
557
00:29:16,075 --> 00:29:18,095
>> [music]
558
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,720
>> Spotting a Yubert calling tower, Gretton
559
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:27,080
calls on his Watu training.
560
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,960
Yuvo sighted at a range of about 2 miles
561
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,159
bearing 146.
562
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,559
Expect Yuvo contact at any time.
563
00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:46,240
Observant.
564
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,000
Observant.
565
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,960
Observant. Also known as the square
566
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,600
search. The escort ships conduct a
567
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,320
twomile sweep in a square shape around
568
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,880
the last known Ubot location. If the
569
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,440
Ubot tries to escape the square, ASIC
570
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,000
will detect it and the Ubot can be depth
571
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,000
charged.
572
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,840
Convoy full speed ahead. Duncan and Tay
573
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,480
observant.
574
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,159
The escorts that are in the area
575
00:30:16,159 --> 00:30:18,720
assigned by that tactic then search that
576
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,399
square in the good knowledge that the
577
00:30:20,399 --> 00:30:21,679
Ubot is [music] probably operating
578
00:30:21,679 --> 00:30:25,240
within that area.
579
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,320
In order to identify where it is, you
580
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,640
need to flush him out with your sonar,
581
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,039
your Azic. This is the soundwave that's
582
00:30:35,039 --> 00:30:37,440
going to ping off the shell of the
583
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,120
yubot. The dreaded sound that no yubot
584
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,640
captain wants to hear.
585
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,520
When they're getting pinged by Azdic,
586
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,039
they know that the British are getting
587
00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:54,880
close. Where they can hear escorts
588
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,120
getting closer, they know their risk is
589
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,679
increased.
590
00:30:59,679 --> 00:31:02,679
>> Dive.
591
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,760
>> This causes them to go deep, go deeper,
592
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,640
to evade the convoy.
593
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,039
Once the ships are in the observant
594
00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:19,200
formation,
595
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,760
Gretton launches a pattern of 10 depth
596
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,760
charges.
597
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,360
The convoy doesn't hit any Ubot that
598
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,720
day, but a potentially lethal attack is
599
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,519
successfully deterred.
600
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,720
>> If you're a Ubot commander, you
601
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,120
definitely want to avoid getting trapped
602
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,399
by one of these tactics. As a result,
603
00:31:52,399 --> 00:31:54,799
most of the tactics used by Watu, even
604
00:31:54,799 --> 00:31:56,559
if they don't sink a Yubot, will
605
00:31:56,559 --> 00:32:00,080
dissuade it from attacking.
606
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,279
>> And this was the basic rule in anti-ubot
607
00:32:03,279 --> 00:32:04,640
warfare.
608
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,880
It's not necessary to actually sink a
609
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,080
yubot. Take away the chance of success
610
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,799
and bring your ship and cargo home.
611
00:32:12,799 --> 00:32:17,000
That's what it's all about.
612
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,760
Even though Donuts was head of the
613
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,080
creeks marina, now when there was an
614
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,399
important operation going on, then he
615
00:32:24,399 --> 00:32:27,992
tried to do as much as possible himself.
616
00:32:27,992 --> 00:32:28,480
[music]
617
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,720
>> 16 boats were supposed to be in position
618
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,919
by 0900 hours.
619
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,120
Where are they?
620
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:38,720
>> Yes, sir.
621
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:44,159
>> Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 16 boats, sir.
622
00:32:44,159 --> 00:32:46,399
>> Where are they?
623
00:32:46,399 --> 00:32:49,279
>> They can't move. The wind.
624
00:32:49,279 --> 00:32:52,640
>> Don't whimper to me about bad weather
625
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,880
and strong winds like some little French
626
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,720
girl.
627
00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:00,760
Do you want to tell that to the furer?
628
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,600
This is war.
629
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,039
Not a bloody board game.
630
00:33:07,039 --> 00:33:10,600
Do your job.
631
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:19,480
Get the boats then. Now attack.
632
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,480
Although there is still no intelligence
633
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,880
from Bletchley Park, the onboard
634
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,320
technology on HMS Duncan picks up enemy
635
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,799
radio frequencies.
636
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,000
Bloody magpies chattering. Gretton's use
637
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,000
of the term chattering of magpies merely
638
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,559
indicates there were multiple signals.
639
00:34:02,559 --> 00:34:04,799
This cascade tells him that there's a
640
00:34:04,799 --> 00:34:08,240
major wolfpack converging on him.
641
00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:10,960
Message to Western approaches.
642
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,679
Submarine sighted.
643
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:17,280
Position, course, and speed.
644
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,359
61 37 [music] north
645
00:34:21,359 --> 00:34:23,040
32
646
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,760
49 west.
647
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,639
Huff tough activity suggests several
648
00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:31,520
more in the vicinity.
649
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,280
>> It's even worse than they thought.
650
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,119
They're surrounded. It's a bit like
651
00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:37,520
being at a camp at night [music] in the
652
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,000
moonlight and you can hear the wolves
653
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,960
howling in the distance.
654
00:34:46,879 --> 00:34:49,040
Greten immediately messages Western
655
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,240
approaches and tells them to send help.
656
00:34:52,240 --> 00:34:54,960
And this is the beautiful thing. Horton
657
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,119
because he's already asked Churchill for
658
00:34:57,119 --> 00:34:59,599
his support groups is able to send some
659
00:34:59,599 --> 00:35:03,200
extra destroyers to help the convoy.
660
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,359
>> Ren,
661
00:35:05,359 --> 00:35:10,400
>> message to Arab. Detach to support ONS5.
662
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,709
Position course and speed 2120 hours
663
00:35:13,709 --> 00:35:19,839
[music] 61° 37 north 32° 49 west.
664
00:35:19,839 --> 00:35:24,240
Proceed at 20 knots, weather permitting.
665
00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:26,320
If he's wrong, then that support group
666
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:27,839
has expended [music] fuel getting to
667
00:35:27,839 --> 00:35:30,000
that location and may not end up
668
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,160
fighting any Ubot at all. If he's
669
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,000
correct, they can make a decisive
670
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,160
difference to the battle. It's a vital
671
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,280
decision that Horton's making.
672
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,200
In the mountainous waves, the Audi
673
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,720
travels slowly. It will be nearly 2 days
674
00:35:50,720 --> 00:35:54,560
before it reaches the convoy.
675
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,640
Although there have been no direct hits
676
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,680
on Durnitz's fleet, two Ubot have
677
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,240
returned to base for repairs.
678
00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:05,119
>> The imbecility,
679
00:36:05,119 --> 00:36:06,880
the magnitude of it,
680
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,000
>> it's Gale Force 10. The waves.
681
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,760
>> You don't get it, do you?
682
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,320
It's this.
683
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,920
What Kretchma had, what Pin had, what
684
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:24,760
Sheepka had, what I have.
685
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,839
I need results. God,
686
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,079
not tomorrow
687
00:36:42,079 --> 00:36:45,880
when the sun shines.
688
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,920
Now
689
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,960
the dark side of Dunit's discipline was
690
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,760
that he demanded a lot from his yubot
691
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,480
crews from the commanders and he put a
692
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,359
lot of pressure especially when they
693
00:37:01,359 --> 00:37:04,760
were not successful.
694
00:37:09,599 --> 00:37:11,440
We know what the standard yubot tactic
695
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,240
is. the ideal tactic, get in among the
696
00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:16,560
convoy shipping lanes on the surface
697
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,560
late at night when you can't be spotted.
698
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,040
But the game has changed. We know we've
699
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,520
got the hard weaponry of technology.
700
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,640
We've got the soft, incredibly ingenious
701
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,839
tactics of Watu. The Ubot are up against
702
00:37:29,839 --> 00:37:33,200
it and they are being pushed. The
703
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,560
pressure on them is like never before.
704
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:40,040
Angle 30°.
705
00:37:40,079 --> 00:37:43,040
>> Grange 2,00
706
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,040
torpedo depth five.
707
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,880
>> They go in between the convoy rows.
708
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:50,240
>> Open bow caps
709
00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:52,240
>> into the fourth row.
710
00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:53,599
>> Tube one and two ready.
711
00:37:53,599 --> 00:37:58,200
>> And they attack point blank.
712
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,520
The McKe Sport, a merchant ship carrying
713
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:19,079
68 men, takes a direct hit.
714
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,400
Convoy, full speed ahead. Be on the
715
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,680
lookout for survivors. Artich choke.
716
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:35,079
Artich choke.
717
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,839
>> Let's send these bastards to the deep.
718
00:38:41,839 --> 00:38:44,320
>> Artich choke. Artichoke.
719
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,000
>> Operation Artichoke.
720
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,440
>> Artichoke. Artichoke.
721
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,680
>> To be used when a yubot attacks by day
722
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,720
or by strong moonlight. The escort a
723
00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:55,359
stern. The convoy immediately proceeds
724
00:38:55,359 --> 00:38:58,400
to the torpedoed ship scanning with AIC.
725
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,839
All other escorts turn and speed a stern
726
00:39:01,839 --> 00:39:04,720
the convoy until 6,000 yards past the
727
00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:06,000
stricken ship.
728
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,240
>> The rest of the escorts move to the rear
729
00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:11,200
of the convoy and then basically scan
730
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,920
forwards. The evading yubot will
731
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,560
hopefully run into the line created by
732
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,680
the artichoke tactic. Again, they are
733
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,920
using the fact that the yubot are
734
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,880
concerned about being hunted.
735
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,400
throwing depth charges.
736
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,079
>> Once the escort ships are in the
737
00:39:34,079 --> 00:39:36,800
artichoke formation, another pattern of
738
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:41,000
depth charges is dropped.
739
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,520
Again,
740
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,400
there are no direct yubot hits, but
741
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,040
Operation Artichoke deters further
742
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,040
attacks.
743
00:40:05,119 --> 00:40:07,440
The Mickey's Sport, there's 68 crew
744
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,280
members on board, and it becomes obvious
745
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:10,880
that the ship's just not going to make
746
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,280
it. So, the order is given for them to
747
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,800
abandon ship, to leave the vessel to its
748
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,800
fate.
749
00:40:19,839 --> 00:40:24,079
Convoy, full steam ahead. Northern Gem,
750
00:40:24,079 --> 00:40:28,200
be on the lookout for survivors.
751
00:40:30,079 --> 00:40:32,079
One of the reasons the Atlantic War is
752
00:40:32,079 --> 00:40:34,480
really so terrible is because of the
753
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,480
fact that human beings are going
754
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,593
overboard uh and they're going into this
755
00:40:38,593 --> 00:40:41,520
[music] terrible icy water. Sometimes
756
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,680
into pools of oil and sometimes into
757
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:45,143
flames. You have a life expectancy
758
00:40:45,143 --> 00:40:49,280
[music] of only a few minutes.
759
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,560
survivors.
760
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,599
>> Whole crew. 68 men [music] rescued by
761
00:41:17,599 --> 00:41:19,760
Northern Gem.
762
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,079
>> Good.
763
00:41:22,079 --> 00:41:24,720
Good.
764
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:26,240
A few years ago, I would have lost them
765
00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:29,040
all.
766
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,040
>> What Roberts War Games identifies that
767
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,440
deploying a ship that should be
768
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,680
escorting the convoy to rescue men in
769
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,560
the water, sometimes women and children,
770
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,240
risks the defense of the convoy itself.
771
00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:45,200
As a result, in 1942,
772
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,368
designated rescue ships are added
773
00:41:47,368 --> 00:41:50,400
[music] to the larger convoys.
774
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,560
>> It means the escort can concentrate on
775
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,359
the job in hand, protecting the convoy
776
00:41:55,359 --> 00:41:59,160
and hunting the Ubot
777
00:42:10,319 --> 00:42:13,520
in Belfast. Christian finds herself
778
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,480
plotting the course of her own fiance's
779
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:20,720
ship as it gets closer to the convoy.
780
00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:24,240
Well, I really felt rather desparing and
781
00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:26,960
anxious and and worrying naturally
782
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:30,240
because it was just an extraordinary
783
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:33,280
experience to become engaged to somebody
784
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,280
and there to find the whole thing was
785
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,520
endangered. It was something of a
786
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,480
nightmare to be living through this
787
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,680
extraordinary situation where you had
788
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,839
nothing you could do about it but just
789
00:42:45,839 --> 00:42:49,800
watch from a distance.
790
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,760
The weather is atrocious and the orbeam
791
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,480
its compass breaks. It's an absolute
792
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,960
disaster. It finally manages to make it
793
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:02,000
to the convoy and finds that it's hove
794
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:05,760
to its stationary.
795
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,480
The storm is now so bad, neither the
796
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,839
ships nor the yubot can move. Until it
797
00:43:11,839 --> 00:43:15,119
passes, the convoy can only watch and
798
00:43:15,119 --> 00:43:18,119
wait.
799
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,599
>> Do you ever lose faith, Jean? I mean, in
800
00:43:27,599 --> 00:43:31,079
what we're doing here.
801
00:43:32,079 --> 00:43:35,119
>> I can't afford to lose faith.
802
00:43:35,119 --> 00:43:39,480
How can I teach what I don't believe?
803
00:43:39,599 --> 00:43:43,560
>> This year has been catastrophic.
804
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:45,680
>> There's lots of people in this place
805
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,040
that will close us down just like that.
806
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,440
>> There are no guarantees.
807
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,680
We've never claimed that.
808
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:57,040
>> We can drill them all we like. We can
809
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,359
talk,
810
00:43:59,359 --> 00:44:02,839
set the stopwatch,
811
00:44:03,119 --> 00:44:05,760
but we can't recreate the ocean, wind,
812
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,920
waves,
813
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:11,160
>> the terror.
814
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,880
>> We will prevail.
815
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,520
I know we will.
816
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:21,240
>> Yes. Yes. Of course.
817
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,319
The relationship between Roberts and
818
00:44:24,319 --> 00:44:26,560
Laid Law seems [music] to be one of very
819
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:30,640
very close cooperation, a mutual trust,
820
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,880
mutual respect. And this is something
821
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,760
that's really quite unusual for the age,
822
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,119
for the era.
823
00:44:37,119 --> 00:44:39,680
>> I have every faith.
824
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:40,960
>> I suppose that's what we have now.
825
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:41,839
Faith.
826
00:44:41,839 --> 00:44:45,280
>> No, we have this
827
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what we teach them.
828
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>> We do.
829
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,760
As the storm begins to abate, HMS
830
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Duncan's fuel is now dangerously low.
831
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>> Western approaches aren't going to like
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it.
833
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>> Do you think I like it?
834
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The last bloody thing I want to do.
835
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,599
Leave my charge. The last thing.
836
00:45:23,599 --> 00:45:26,079
I have lives to protect on the ships and
837
00:45:26,079 --> 00:45:29,839
back home. What choice have I got?
838
00:45:29,839 --> 00:45:31,680
We've got just enough fuel to get us to
839
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:35,560
St. John's. if that
840
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:42,560
or
841
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:46,599
we stay we're told.
842
00:45:49,839 --> 00:45:53,200
It may seem odd to us that any man or
843
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:57,280
indeed woman would want to remain in a
844
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,240
battle zone, but Gretton, like most of
845
00:46:00,240 --> 00:46:02,480
the men fighting in this war, they're to
846
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:06,520
win it come what may.
847
00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:13,040
Duncan to detach.
848
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,599
Ste a course for St. John's New
849
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Foundland. Best speed.
850
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:25,200
Forced to depart, Commander Gretton
851
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,760
knows he is leaving the convoy at the
852
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:31,440
worst possible time. In the military, if
853
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,599
you are not able to take part in a
854
00:46:33,599 --> 00:46:35,520
battle that you yourself have
855
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:39,440
influenced, it can be incredibly
856
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,359
emotional. It must have been
857
00:46:41,359 --> 00:46:44,359
heartbreaking.
858
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,400
News of Gretton's departure from the
859
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:56,319
convoy soon reaches Admiral Horton.
860
00:46:56,319 --> 00:46:58,720
>> Present weather conditions preclude
861
00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:03,359
oiling at sea. Intent detaching
862
00:47:03,359 --> 00:47:05,359
and he's taking three other escort ships
863
00:47:05,359 --> 00:47:06,880
with him.
864
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,359
>> That ship was built in the 30s. It's not
865
00:47:09,359 --> 00:47:10,800
up to modern standards.
866
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:12,560
>> Our commanders weren't trained to leave
867
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,960
their charge. Especially not a commander
868
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:16,720
like Gretton.
869
00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:19,359
>> With respect, sir, I don't believe he
870
00:47:19,359 --> 00:47:22,000
had a choice.
871
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,599
>> We will have to live with our decisions.
872
00:47:23,599 --> 00:47:26,599
Roberts.
873
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:40,640
It is now 5 days since ONS5 was spotted
874
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:44,160
by Yubot 650.
875
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,119
As the convoy reaches the black pit,
876
00:47:47,119 --> 00:47:49,520
Dernets is desperate for his wolf pack
877
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,760
to attack.
878
00:47:53,599 --> 00:47:56,599
>> Message.
879
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,800
Utilize all means to listen. Report
880
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,440
every clue immediately.
881
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:09,119
Every chance must be taken.
882
00:48:09,119 --> 00:48:12,480
Something can and must be achieved with
883
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,440
31 Ubot.
884
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,520
End.
885
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:20,480
He's got his teeth into ONS5. And by the
886
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,559
time he's done ordering up Ubot to
887
00:48:22,559 --> 00:48:25,280
attack it, there's around 40 41 four
888
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:26,640
times larger than the Escort. I mean,
889
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:31,000
it's an overwhelming number of Ubot.
890
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:42,720
Knowing that three days ago her fiance
891
00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:46,240
ship HMS Oribe joined the convoy, Ren
892
00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:48,720
Christian Oldm refuses to leave the
893
00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:50,400
plotting room.
894
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,520
>> Naturally, I needed to stay there. There
895
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,920
was no way that I could leave the plot
896
00:48:55,920 --> 00:49:00,920
until the battle was decided.
897
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,599
It was a nightmare to feel so helpless
898
00:49:05,599 --> 00:49:11,400
waiting for news which didn't ever come.
899
00:49:26,529 --> 00:49:28,549
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