World at War - Uboats

[bigboywooly]

Just watching the series World at war - episode 10 which is about wolfpacks

Most of the interviews in the program are online here

http://www.theworldatwar.com/

Interviews with Admiral Donitz , Otto Kretschmer and Peter Cremer and others :up:

Great stuff

[CruiseTorpedo]

I love that series! Best WW2 documentary I've ever seen! The uboat section was one of my favorites, I think the desert war being close second. They did both theaters justice! I wish the part about battle of britain had more gun cam video in it though.

[bigboywooly]

I love that series! Best WW2 documentary I've ever seen! The uboat section was one of my favorites, I think the desert war being close second. They did both theaters justice! I wish the part about battle of britain had more gun cam video in it though.

Yes its being rerun on UKTV History in England at the moment
Compulsive viewing

[CruiseTorpedo]

I bought the dvd series a few years ago, think at the time it was 140 bucks or something. Was well worth it

[bigboywooly]

Some great footage in this Wolfpack episode
The sequence of the hedgehogs being fired off and exploding as they find the sub and the subs stern clear out of the water before sinking was stunning

[mr chris]

fantastic it's on again at 11 uk time. Midnight here i will watch it then.
Thanks for the info BBW:up:

[HunterICX]

the hedgehog action scared the sh!t out of me.....
give me the depthcharges

but an amazing bunch of story's

makes you feel to join those Wolfpacks for real

[bookworm_020]

It it one of the best series I have ever watched on WWII. It didn't just give facts and figures, but let people who had been there and had gone through it a chance to tell what happened. It didn't dumb it down or act high minded. It just told what happend from all sides.

I wish more could have followed in the footsteps of this program, instead of trying to tell us what to think.

The fact that it was done almost 30 years ago and is still as powerful as it was then, shows how good it is. It couldn't be done as well today as they who lived through it are dying out.

A must watch for anyone who wants to get an execellent overview of the war:up:

[P_Funk]

"The Battle of the Atlantic was the only thing that really frightened me" - Winston Churchill.
That's on the site. I believe that's a misquote of the big guy. The real quote is on the first page of the SH3 manual. That or that's the wrong one. But I'm pretty sure.

Another possibility is that he said it more than once and revised his statement.

[Safe-Keeper]

It's actually possible that the widely accepted quote is the false one, you know. It's happened before:p!

Admiral Dönitz - wow. It never occured to me that he might still be alive (or is it an old interview?). I just never think of people of history that way:oops:.

[John Pancoast]

It's actually possible that the widely accepted quote is the false one, you know. It's happened before:p!

Admiral Dönitz - wow. It never occured to me that he might still be alive (or is it an old interview?). I just never think of people of history that way:oops:.

These films were made in the '70's :)

[bookworm_020]

He died in 1980. World at war series was done in the 1970's

[IrishUboot]

I've seen them all before but I'll have to tune in to catch them again. Good WWII documentaries are hard to find on tv. Most of them are just attempts to demonize the German side and the SS in particular. Some of those Channel 5 attempts were laughable.

[STEED]

A good series for it's time. :yep: