Win the Atlantic - Win the War
Written and presented by Ludovic Kennedy
"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the War was the U-Boat Peril... Never for one moment could we forget that everything happening elsewhere, depended ultimately on its outcome." (Sir Winston Churchill: The Second World War.)
Tonight Ludovic Kennedy tells the story of the changing fortunes of the U-boat war, with rarely seen film from Germany of U-boats in action and British war film of the Royal Navy's and Coastal Command's reply.
Men from both sides, who were enemies at the time, describe their experiences, including:
Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Gretton, KCB, DSO, OBE, DSC, wartime commander, 7th Atlantic Escort Group
Captain Donald MacIntyre, DSO, DSC, in command of the destroyer Walker
Rear Admiral Otto Kretschmer, Commander of U-99, leading U-boat ace, who sank some 300,000 tons of Allied shipping
Grand Admiral Doenitz, former C-in-C U-Boats who was, briefly, second Fuehrer of the 3rd Reich.
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