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Nazi yubot maestro Carl Ditz is winning
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the battle of the Atlantic.
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>> Happy hunting.
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>> One torpedo straight into the magazine.
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Bullse eyee.
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>> One torpedo, one ship.
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>> This is our happy time.
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>> 20 seconds. That must be a record. Our
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main weapon has to be the torpedo
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carrying yubot.
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>> Britain is on its knees.
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>> If we keep losing ships, the country
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will be down to just a few weeks of
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supplies. People will be starving to
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death.
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>> May the enemy never know the secret of
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our success.
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>> The British are oblivious to the Yubot's
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tactics.
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>> You need to get in the minds of those
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Yubot aces.
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No way back to Germany this time. There
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are glimmers of hope. The
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>> capture of the Enigma machine was a huge
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coup.
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>> Well, let's find them and destroy them.
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But they prove to be dead ends.
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>> Find out what's happening and sink the
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Yubot.
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The Royal Navy turns to the Rens to
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uncover the Yubot secrets.
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>> That is what we will do here by playing
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through scenarios and recreating battles
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in a war game.
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>> So, who thinks they can sink a Yubot?
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Admiral Dennit says Ubot are hunting
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British convoys like wolf packs.
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They work together to track down their
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prey and coordinate their deadly
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attacks.
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>> Looks like a good day for us.
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>> Enemy convoy inside.
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>> AM 1452 northwest course.
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>> Speed
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>> 8 knots
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>> about
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30 ships.
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We're the shadow convoy till support
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arrives. Y
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>> the weather to hunt
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Elmo's fire.
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It's an omen.
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It's also an oven.
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>> The crutch wise about
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>> Well, I wouldn't want you to get ahead
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in the tunnage wager.
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>> You greedy bastard. We can share the
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tunnage we sent to the bottom.
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>> Plenty to go round.
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>> The orders are to wait till nightfall.
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>> Happy hunting.
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The yubot captains are driven by a
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fierce competition to sink the highest
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tonnage.
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>> They got awarded the night's cross if
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they sunk 100,000 tons of cargo. This is
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a game of oneupmanship.
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Kretchma pin. They are focusing on the
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prize.
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>> This is the era of the great yubot aces.
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This is where audacity pays. where poor
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defense of convoys is something the
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Germans can exploit.
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>> The competitive Ubot aces are wreaking
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havoc on transatlantic trade
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and the Royal Navy doesn't understand
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their tactics.
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>> By the early spring of 1941, Dunit's
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Ubot had sunk a total of 650 ships.
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You have a island nation where 95% or so
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of the energy that Britain requires is
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brought in from abroad. 70 plus% of the
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food stuffs. It's a terribly dangerous
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situation.
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The British are losing so much shipping
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that Winston Churchill issues the Battle
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of the Atlantic directive. He orders
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that all Ubot are to be targeted and all
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Ubot shipping yards have to be bombed.
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>> But it makes little difference. Ditz
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protects his Ubot in concrete submarine
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pens.
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Churchill's bombs failed to penetrate
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them.
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>> Germany has conquered France. Because
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she's conquered France, she now has a
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sequence of Atlantic ports that enable
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her to get directly into the central
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Atlantic.
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>> Dits can attack convoys leaving the
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southern ports of Britain with impunity.
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So the western approaches convoy routes
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are transferred northwards to Liverpool
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and other ports. The convoy command
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headquarters is also moved to Liverpool.
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This was a place of constant activity
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24/7.
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The majority of the people working there
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were the rents.
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The head of the rens, Vera Lorton
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Matthews, wants the Navy to give her
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team even greater responsibilities.
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>> Sir Percy Noble was in charge of Western
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approaches in Liverpool. Now, he was a
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man with enormous experience in the
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Navy.
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>> Thank you for coming to Liverpool.
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>> He was an old hand. He knew the ropes,
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but he'd never really faced something
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like this before. And he was desperately
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trying to find a way to stop these
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terrible, terrible losses that were
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being inflicted by the Ubot.
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>> It's a relief to escape the bombs
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raining down on London Town.
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>> We have our own blitz. A bomb landed a
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stones throw away from here. Quite a
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commotion.
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>> Nowhere safe.
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How did the Atlantic cruise go?
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A real eye opener.
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>> Bloody chaotic mess would be a polite
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way of putting it.
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>> Did you learn anything?
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>> I was on a destroyer attached to the
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escort. Orders from shore were flooding
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in, sending the other escort ships on
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wild goose chases. In the end, our
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destroyer was the only escort left
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protecting the convoy. The poor captain
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was going stark raving mad.
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>> Any enemy engagement?
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>> Thank god no. Curtains for us all.
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>> You need to get in the minds of those
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Yubot aces, so they're called.
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>> Well, that's easier said than done, I'm
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afraid.
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>> Let me know if the Rens can do anything
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to help. We are here to serve.
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>> Thank you. I do appreciate having your
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ren here. They certainly brighten the
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place up.
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They can do more than that.
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Much more.
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How nice to see you.
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Virilon Matthews is going to individuals
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in the Navy and going the Rens can do
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this. The Rens can give you what you
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need. They can fill these positions.
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This is powerful stuff.
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Vera Lorton Matthews is determined to
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transform the Rens into a force who can
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help fight back against the Hubot.
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The Yubot had another advantage over the
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Royal Navy. They could communicate in
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secret, so the Navy could not predict
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their movements.
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>> We are back in business.
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Send beacon signal. Enemy convoy in
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sight.
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Square AM 1452 course 330°
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report convoy at 1249
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speed 8 knots.
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The Germans sent their messages through
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an enigma machine. When the operator
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would hit a key to input a letter, that
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would be transferred through three
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rotating wheels. Each had 26 positions.
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So that by the time it was sent out into
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the ether, that key had been changed,
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get ready for this number, 160
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quintilion times.
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Send to U99, U70, UA, U37.
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Report by short signal. Yes. When
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attacking.
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>> Donut is asking for updates all the
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time, but these are gibberish until we
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can break the code.
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One man who might be able to predict the
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yubot movements through wargaming is
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Gilbert Roberts, but his career in the
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Navy was cut short by tuberculosis.
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>> Due to his illness, Roberts at this
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point is in the home guard. Those who
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can't serve in the front line volunteer
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for service in defense of the UK. It's
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better than nothing, but must have been
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a heartbreaking experience for a man
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with that level of understanding of
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naval tactics.
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>> Who goes there?
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>> Oh, for crying out, lad. Game's up.
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Let's cut the round.
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>> I'm sorry to say, but if this had been
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the real show, we'd all be gone. You lot
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are as inconspicuous as a herd of bull
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elephants.
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>> It's my lambos, sir. I think I've caught
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a cold.
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>> Well,
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better what happens here than when the
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Germans arrive.
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>> You're all right, sir?
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>> Thank you.
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I used to be 100% fit. Now my health is
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just fitful.
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>> When he applies to all sorts of jobs
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with the Navy, he's told, "Well, no, I'm
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sorry. We can't accept you back because
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of this illness.
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>> He must be doing something for the
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fleet. He's waiting for an opportunity.
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Meanwhile, the Rens are using what
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intelligence the Royal Navy have in the
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Western Approaches plotting room.
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Loren played a key role tracking the
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location of the known convoys and the
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suspected Wolfpack units.
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>> I wanted to be a plotter cuz I
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discovered they had a very interesting
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job. The plot consisted of a large map
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and you could see all the number of
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enormous ships, battleships, battle
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cruisers, destroyers.
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But the Ubot rarely give away their
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positions.
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Driven by Dernitz's tonnage competition,
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Pin goes for the biggest kill of his
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career. The Turgy Viken, a whailing ship
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now converted into an oil tanker. But
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the main attraction for Pin is not the
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oil. vital for the British war effort.
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But the fact that the ship weighs over
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20,000 tons,
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>> it's big. A wher
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>> set torpedoes.
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Range 450 m. Depth
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9 m. Course
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330° 8 knots.
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>> Torpedo set.
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Fire
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>> directed
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30 m from the midship.
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>> That's a few thousand more tons for our
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tally.
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Wait,
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the beast isn't sinking.
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>> Sink the ships. That was the key.
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Go to hell.
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>> Dun's overall grand strategy for how the
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hubot could win this war was to sink as
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many ships as possible. Add up the total
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tonnage.
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>> Center U37, U47, U70, U99.
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Report position by squares by short
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signal.
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Who's attacking the whaler?
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>> He needed to instill competition among
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them in order to increase the tonnage.
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He worked out that he needed to sink
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700,000
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tons of cargo every month to win the
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war.
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>> This carefully designed competition
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kicks in. Cretchmer tries to claim the
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ship for himself, but the intense
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competition makes him and his fellow
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aces reckless.
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It's a flaw in Dernets's strategy that
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will come back to haunt him.
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>> Our turn.
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Let's put the wounded beast out of its
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misery.
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>> Set torpedoes.
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Torpedoes are said
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>> fire.
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>> Hit on the port side. The crew are
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abandoning ship.
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Sink. You bastard. Sink.
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>> We're picking up propeller noises on the
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hydrophone.
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>> How close?
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>> Too close.
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Enemy
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escorts. Two of them. Dive. Dive. Dive.
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The Royal Navy misses the chance to
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destroy Cretchmer's U999,
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but Dennit has lost all contact with
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Pin's U47.
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What's going on? Are there wireless
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transmitters down? Where's Pin in the
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U47?
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>> We don't know, sir.
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>> Transmit to Wolfpack.
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U47 report position and condition.
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>> Come on, Prian.
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Where in God's name are you?
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Donuts never gives up. He keeps sending
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out messages going, "Send me your
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location." But he hears nothing.
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Anything?
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No, sir.
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Shisa.
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It was all going so well and now
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silence.
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What's PM playing at? I bet he's going
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to claim the tonnage of that hefty
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whaler.
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>> While the yubot aces are obsessed with
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tonnage, Vira Lorton Matthews knows that
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if she can get enough intelligent women
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into the Rens, the Royal Navy will
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eventually run out of male brain power
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and be forced to come to her. And she
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has a strategy. What do you think of the
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new uniform? After all, you'll be
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wearing it.
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>> Well, Mom, I like the hat. I think it's
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jolly elegant.
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>> Well, it damn well should be. I had
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Edward Mullen, you design it. I want my
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Rens to be the talk of the town.
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>> I shall wear it like a cat on a catwalk.
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>> The Rens are given this very lovely
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uniform actually. I mean, it's designed
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by a famous fashion designer.
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We had tricorn hats with a badge at the
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front.
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The trousers are rather fetching.
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My father always said a woman should not
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be seen dead in a pair of trus.
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>> It's about time we started wearing the
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trousers.
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>> It was a very smart uniform. Black
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stockings and brass buttons.
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It looks lovely. Thank you.
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>> It made the rens very popular to join.
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People joined forth of clothes really.
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Everybody wanted to join the rens.
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As the rens fight to have their
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abilities recognized, Cretchmer is
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relentlessly pursuing the crown of
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tonnage king.
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>> Sir, we have something.
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It's faint, but it's definitely
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propeller noises to this house.
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>> Very good.
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>> Surface and head for that bearing cruise
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speed.
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>> Cretchmer, keen to add to his tonnage,
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is alerted to a 41 ship convoy
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transporting vital oil supplies to
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Britain.
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We're spoiled for choice.
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Let's start with the oil tanker.
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Set torpedoes.
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Range 1500 m.
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>> Torpedo set.
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>> Fire.
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That's as good as it gets.
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>> Set torpedoes.
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There's more than one oil tanker in this
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convoy.
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>> Fire.
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That makes six.
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One torpedo, one ship.
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Let's head home.
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>> Cretchmer has just taken his tally to an
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astounding 47 allied ships, weighing
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over 273,000
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tons. But flushed with success,
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Cretchmer's U99 becomes complacent.
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GET UP, MAN. GET UP.
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>> Zombie alarm.
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>> I'm done. I'm done.
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>> Dive. Dive.
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>> Why the devil have you dived? Are you
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sure we couldn't have gotten away on the
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surface?
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>> Yes, sir. We destroyed 800 meters
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before. They couldn't have missed us.
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>> Full speed submerged. Let's get out of
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here.
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>> Depth charges are too close for comfort.
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Sir, we've lost all thrust and
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propellers.
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>> He goes far beyond the depth that he
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should
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>> and so his instruments are broken, so
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he's forced to rise to the surface.
401
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The British are waiting for him.
402
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>> Let's get out of here.
403
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>> I'm afraid not, sir. Electric motors and
404
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steering a kaput.
405
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Radio Laurio now. Give me that.
406
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Two destroyers. Depth charges 53,000
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tons. Capture Kretzma.
408
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Prepare scuttling charges and destroy
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all documents and ciphers.
410
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No way back to Germany this time.
411
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In just over a week in March 1941,
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things are looking much brighter for the
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British.
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Ditz has lost contact with not one but
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three of his Yubot aces.
416
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>> I need you to find me U99 and U 100. Now
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creature,
418
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where the bloody hell are you?
419
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Don't go quiet on me like pre
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any news.
421
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,039
>> The U37 has passed a message on from
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Cratchma.
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>> Bomb
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boat sunk. Hile Hitler Crashma
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two destroyers 53,000 tons.
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Add the 53,000 tons to fracturous tally.
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Ditz knows that Pin is never coming
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home. And now Cretchmer and Shepka are
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00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,640
missing too.
430
00:23:49,679 --> 00:23:51,840
>> They were like sons to him, his dual
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commanders.
432
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For Dunit, it was a great shock because
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Pin was the paragon of Yubot Ace. He was
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a people's hero and now he was lost.
435
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,640
When Otto Crretchma was still alive, I
436
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,440
asked him what he thought was fate. And
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Kretchma thought it most likely that Pin
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was hit by one of his own torpedoes,
439
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:20,320
that he was hit by a circle runner.
440
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,600
Pin may have run out of luck, but the
441
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:27,200
truth will likely never be known.
442
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,240
>> Very shortly after Pin's mysterious
443
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,440
death, a Shepka, who was another of the
444
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,080
great aces, is also killed.
445
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,640
>> I'd like to propose a wager.
446
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,440
>> It's almost as though fate was listening
447
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,919
to Shepka when he was betting his
448
00:24:43,919 --> 00:24:46,320
friends. First of 250,000 tons of
449
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,440
shipping buys the champagne and within a
450
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:54,320
few days all of them are taken out.
451
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,400
>> Killing two and and capturing a third is
452
00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,240
a very major coup for the British.
453
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,240
>> This could be the turning point to the
454
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,080
British need in the Battle of the
455
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Atlantic.
456
00:25:06,159 --> 00:25:07,279
>> They think they're going to be able to
457
00:25:07,279 --> 00:25:08,559
interrogate this guy. They're going to
458
00:25:08,559 --> 00:25:12,600
be able to get something out of him.
459
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,600
I must apologize for the welcome.
460
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,159
>> May I have those back, please? They were
461
00:25:22,159 --> 00:25:24,400
a gift for my leader.
462
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,919
>> All in good time. All in good time.
463
00:25:27,919 --> 00:25:29,360
You've made a bit of a name for
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00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:30,880
yourself.
465
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,880
>> Simply work in the service of the German
466
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,880
Navy.
467
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,360
Going through the pockets of all of
468
00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:40,000
Cretchma's crew, the British find this
469
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,679
little plan of how a yubot would attack
470
00:25:43,679 --> 00:25:47,240
a British convoy.
471
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:49,840
The British don't realize the
472
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,000
significance of this sketch of this
473
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,919
diagram that this might have been the
474
00:25:53,919 --> 00:25:57,360
key to avoiding so many more losses from
475
00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:00,520
the convoys.
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00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:02,960
Nobody of importance saw it and so the
477
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British were still as clueless as ever.
478
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,799
>> It's a massive missed opportunity.
479
00:26:10,799 --> 00:26:13,360
But the British do glean one positive
480
00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:15,440
piece of intelligence from the German
481
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,360
prisoners.
482
00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:20,240
>> Very good.
483
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,480
>> Thank you.
484
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,960
U47. That's Pin's boat, correct?
485
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,480
>> Gunther Pin's boat.
486
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:38,640
Well,
487
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,039
>> we know what happened to Cretchmer
488
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and Shepka.
489
00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:45,520
But it looks as though they lost Pin as
490
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,679
well.
491
00:26:47,679 --> 00:26:51,679
Let's say our destroyers got Pin.
492
00:26:51,679 --> 00:26:55,120
Revenge for Scapperflow at last. Very
493
00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:57,440
good, sir.
494
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,000
>> You boat down.
495
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,080
>> The British use it as a propaganda coup.
496
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,320
They announce the fact that he's died
497
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,039
and they even drop leaflets over Germany
498
00:27:13,039 --> 00:27:16,679
saying, "Vo is
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00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,760
A fine morning to you, Miss Laidawor.
500
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,279
Ma'am,
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00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:31,200
>> I see the Germans have finally admitted
502
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,919
that rogue Prian is no more.
503
00:27:33,919 --> 00:27:35,600
>> I was heartened to see that Cretchmer
504
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,279
received a brisk reception from the good
505
00:27:37,279 --> 00:27:38,640
folk of Liverpool.
506
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,600
>> Quite. Let's hope our homegrown
507
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,320
inquisition can ek out the Yubot's dirty
508
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,000
secrets from him.
509
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,600
Thank god we have got rid of some of the
510
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,919
worst of them.
511
00:27:49,919 --> 00:27:52,080
>> I fear there may be many more where they
512
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,240
came from.
513
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,640
>> These three Ubot aces were not
514
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,440
unreplaceable. A new generation of
515
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,640
experienced Yubot commanders had grown
516
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,080
and had learned from the experience of
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the Yubot aces.
518
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,559
Carl Dennit, undeterred by the loss of
519
00:28:20,559 --> 00:28:23,440
his three aces, is more determined than
520
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,039
ever to win the battle of the Atlantic.
521
00:28:27,039 --> 00:28:30,360
>> Mine fur,
522
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,000
I'm pleased to report that our Ubot have
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00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,120
sunk 90 enemy vessels and half a million
524
00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:39,360
tons of enemy shipping.
525
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,679
But we must do more.
526
00:28:41,679 --> 00:28:44,320
We're on the cusp of great things. With
527
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,720
more Hubot, we can ram home our
528
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,640
superiority.
529
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,520
So, I must ask again for the fleet of
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300 Yubot. I will then guarantee you a
531
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,240
victory that will bring Britain to her
532
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,640
knees and will go down in future
533
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,440
histories of the Third Reich.
534
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:08,120
>> I will consider it.
535
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,919
>> Thank you.
536
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,440
Donuts would like Hitler to make yubot
537
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,919
the highest priority, but he's fighting
538
00:29:23,919 --> 00:29:26,159
against Hitler's commitment to the land
539
00:29:26,159 --> 00:29:28,159
war, and Hitler's just not ready to make
540
00:29:28,159 --> 00:29:31,640
that move yet.
541
00:29:31,679 --> 00:29:34,240
After failing to win Hitler over,
542
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,960
Dernitz faces a major setback when the
543
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,159
British sees an intact Ubot off Iceland
544
00:29:40,159 --> 00:29:43,120
in the North Atlantic. But that's not
545
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,080
all they capture.
546
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,200
The crew of the HMS Bulldog, the nearby
547
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,320
destroyer, quickly got to the Uvote and
548
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:56,760
were able to conduct a quick inspection.
549
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,480
They find this extraordinary looking
550
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,480
typewriter.
551
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,679
The capture of the Enigma machine and
552
00:30:15,679 --> 00:30:21,240
code books was a huge coup.
553
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,679
If we can crack these codes, then we can
554
00:30:29,679 --> 00:30:31,440
know at least where the wolfpacks are
555
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,600
going to attack.
556
00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:38,960
This was an enormous moment of optimism,
557
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,679
of great hope that finally we can get
558
00:30:41,679 --> 00:30:46,520
inside Durnets's mind.
559
00:30:52,399 --> 00:30:55,760
At Bletchley Park, a group of eccentric
560
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,720
mathematicians, puzzle solvers worked
561
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,279
hard to try to crack into this code and
562
00:31:01,279 --> 00:31:03,520
famously built what amounts to the
563
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:07,520
world's first analog computer.
564
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,640
Cracking the Enigma code soon brings a
565
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,760
breakthrough, and the rens play a key
566
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,840
role.
567
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,760
You've seen the news?
568
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,919
>> Yes. The Bismar. Marvelous
569
00:31:19,919 --> 00:31:22,799
>> indeed. I'm proud our rens in Y service
570
00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:26,240
in Scarra helped hunt the Bismar down on
571
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,080
the QT. Of course,
572
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,120
>> mom's the word.
573
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,279
>> You wouldn't talk to your family or
574
00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:37,039
friends about what you did.
575
00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:40,960
I was in the Y station.
576
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,799
Letter Y stood for naval intelligence.
577
00:31:44,799 --> 00:31:48,240
We needed to know whether German Ubot
578
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:52,000
were lurking to attack our convoys.
579
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,039
So what we were listening to was the
580
00:31:55,039 --> 00:31:58,799
radio signals between German naval bases
581
00:31:58,799 --> 00:32:00,880
and ships.
582
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,360
You would sit down and you'd start
583
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,960
twiddling up and down the wavelengths
584
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,320
that the German fleet used. And if you
585
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,720
picked up a signal, you would just write
586
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,159
down exactly what you heard. The officer
587
00:32:16,159 --> 00:32:18,640
would inform Bletchley Park if it was
588
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,640
code.
589
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,200
Rens like Pat helped track down the
590
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,000
Bismar, Germany's most prized
591
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,000
battleship.
592
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,760
In the Bismar chase, they're gathering
593
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,519
intelligence. They're analyzing the
594
00:32:33,519 --> 00:32:36,240
positions. They're predicting potential
595
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,600
German courses of action.
596
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,679
They've discovered that the Bismar was
597
00:32:41,679 --> 00:32:44,480
in fact pointing in an entirely
598
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,159
different direction and they were able
599
00:32:46,159 --> 00:32:51,240
to pursue her and sank her.
600
00:32:52,799 --> 00:32:55,039
It becomes apparent that the Rens are
601
00:32:55,039 --> 00:32:57,519
really good at this sort of stuff.
602
00:32:57,519 --> 00:32:59,440
>> Thanks to the cracking of the Enigma
603
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,000
code, the Rens can monitor the German
604
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,760
newbot wolf packs much more closely.
605
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,440
If you look at what happens to convoys
606
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,000
over the summer of 1941, Germans can't
607
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,240
find them because they're reading the
608
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,480
signal traffic as the hubot are sending
609
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,960
it or as Donuts is replying. The
610
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,120
principal means of defending merchant
611
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:23,200
shipping is avoidance of the enemy.
612
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,159
But it's a temporary reprieve. The
613
00:33:26,159 --> 00:33:29,519
Germans regularly change their codes and
614
00:33:29,519 --> 00:33:31,840
it proves impossible to track every wolf
615
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,880
pack so the convoys can avoid them.
616
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,279
This has tragic consequences for the
617
00:33:37,279 --> 00:33:40,279
Rens.
618
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:44,880
>> The Aguilera.
619
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:46,320
>> Yes, I I'm aware.
620
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,640
>> The SS Aguilera, the commercial steamer,
621
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,399
was torpedoed and sunk off Spain. 21 of
622
00:33:52,399 --> 00:33:54,960
my rens were on board.
623
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,440
They all perished. Had they been aboard
624
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,919
a Royal Naval Destroyer, they probably
625
00:33:59,919 --> 00:34:02,159
would have escaped the attack.
626
00:34:02,159 --> 00:34:04,399
A destroyer was also sunk.
627
00:34:04,399 --> 00:34:07,919
>> Don't evade the point.
628
00:34:07,919 --> 00:34:10,560
The point is that my rens are not
629
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,359
allowed aboard royal naval vessels
630
00:34:13,359 --> 00:34:16,240
because it's considered to be bad luck.
631
00:34:16,240 --> 00:34:18,879
This is pure superstition. It's
632
00:34:18,879 --> 00:34:20,800
medieval.
633
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,200
What is bad luck is that they were
634
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,399
aboard a defenseless freighter. From now
635
00:34:26,399 --> 00:34:29,119
on, my rens will only travel aboard
636
00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:31,520
Royal naval vessels on foreign
637
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,119
assignments. Is that clear?
638
00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:38,399
>> I am all too aware. I I sympathize with
639
00:34:38,399 --> 00:34:41,040
you and of course with the families of
640
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,879
all those poor young women.
641
00:34:42,879 --> 00:34:45,839
>> Your sympathy is all very well,
642
00:34:45,839 --> 00:34:49,800
but I demand action.
643
00:34:50,879 --> 00:34:54,159
The SS Aguilia tragedy meant that the
644
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:56,240
Navy had to rethink its policy about
645
00:34:56,240 --> 00:34:58,640
women and rens not being able to go on
646
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,640
ships.
647
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,640
The law was changed and finally women
648
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,280
were also able to go on board naval
649
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,280
ships.
650
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,839
I just heard about the aguila.
651
00:35:19,839 --> 00:35:22,880
Did you know any of the rens?
652
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,359
>> Each and everyone.
653
00:35:25,359 --> 00:35:27,280
I personally selected those who went to
654
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,680
Gibraltar.
655
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,400
Bright, lovely women.
656
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:37,480
12 of them were from Y station SCRA.
657
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,760
when I was told I was in the countryside
658
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:46,079
enjoying the sweet aroma of honeysuckle.
659
00:35:46,079 --> 00:35:49,200
And now I shall forever associate that
660
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,000
smell with my girls.
661
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,480
My poor girls.
662
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,079
How sad. And to think they were all lost
663
00:35:58,079 --> 00:36:00,960
on a slow old freighter. It's a tragedy
664
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,200
that will just be repeated.
665
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,280
>> No,
666
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,240
it won't.
667
00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:12,280
I've made sure of that.
668
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,160
>> In September 1941, the British hit a new
669
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:30,320
low when Wolfpack sink 23 ships from two
670
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,640
convoys alone.
671
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,040
Despite their apparent breakthroughs,
672
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,440
the Royal Navy seems to be back at
673
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,359
square one.
674
00:36:39,359 --> 00:36:41,359
>> We have the results of the inquiry into
675
00:36:41,359 --> 00:36:45,119
convoy SL87 that I ordered.
676
00:36:45,119 --> 00:36:48,160
It does not make for an edifying read.
677
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,480
The fact that seven out of 11 ships were
678
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,800
sunk with no retaliation against the
679
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,520
enemy is to be deplored.
680
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,599
Shocking, I think you'd agree.
681
00:36:57,599 --> 00:36:59,280
>> Yes, indeed.
682
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:03,440
>> And it's not for want of protection.
683
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,960
The escort was a strong one for a convoy
684
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,599
of this size. It is clear that the
685
00:37:11,599 --> 00:37:13,599
efforts of the escorts were poorly
686
00:37:13,599 --> 00:37:15,200
coordinated.
687
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:20,520
>> Understood, sir. Loud and clear.
688
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,880
What has become of our invincible Royal
689
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,880
Navy?
690
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,160
Never before in my long career have I
691
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,760
seen such lack of gumption.
692
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:37,920
If
693
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,040
>> the prime minister gives us more ships,
694
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,440
we at least have a chance.
695
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,680
>> I'm trying. I'm trying. But we must deal
696
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:52,160
with these Ubot once and for all.
697
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,960
>> Leave it to me, sir.
698
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,560
So Percy Noble realizes that if they do
699
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,599
not find a way to stop this terrible
700
00:38:11,599 --> 00:38:13,760
yubot menace from sinking all of these
701
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,000
ships that the British are going to have
702
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,680
to capitulate to Hitler.
703
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,920
>> The problem is we don't understand how
704
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,640
the Germans are operating.
705
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,640
Our
706
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,560
agents in Spain have cited a convoy in
707
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,640
Jibralta.
708
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,000
>> How many ships?
709
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,560
>> 32 merchant vessels protected by escort
710
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,640
ships.
711
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:46,079
>> Send a message to U67.
712
00:38:46,079 --> 00:38:49,119
Tell him to monitor the convoy.
713
00:38:49,119 --> 00:38:51,760
>> Put the other seven Ubot on standby to
714
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,760
attack.
715
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:02,480
HG76
716
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:06,400
is the 32 ship convoy but with 16
717
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,359
escorts plus an auxiliary aircraft
718
00:39:09,359 --> 00:39:12,079
carrier. The Audacity and the escort
719
00:39:12,079 --> 00:39:14,800
group is commanded by Frederick John
720
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:18,599
Johnny Walker.
721
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,040
HMS Stanley reports that she's under
722
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,680
attack by a submarine.
723
00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:34,240
>> It's damn German hers.
724
00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:37,640
Where are they?
725
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,520
Firefl
726
00:39:53,839 --> 00:39:55,520
Stern
727
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,800
contact 1,200 yd.
728
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,560
>> They've got modern radar and the great
729
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,040
advantage of radar is it provides the
730
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:04,960
kind of intelligence that Walker needs
731
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,440
to tumble the battle in his direction.
732
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:11,000
Five death charges.
733
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,960
The pad ram.
734
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,560
What's going on?
735
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:44,160
>> It's radio silence from our Ubot.
736
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:45,839
>> Order another three Ubot to join the
737
00:40:45,839 --> 00:40:48,240
Wolfpack. Tell them to regroup for
738
00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:50,560
another attack. We need to sink this
739
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,560
convoy.
740
00:40:57,119 --> 00:41:00,599
>> We've been soup.
741
00:41:01,599 --> 00:41:04,720
Well, let's find them and destroy them.
742
00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:07,440
>> Buttercup starboard.
743
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:08,800
>> Walker comes up with this idea of
744
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,240
Buttercup, which is to turn his ships
745
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:14,640
outward and to try and go over where the
746
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,000
Ubot are.
747
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,680
>> Come into our little trap.
748
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,839
>> His assumption is that if he illuminates
749
00:41:21,839 --> 00:41:23,920
the entire area and moves out into the
750
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,359
periphery, he will be able to pick one
751
00:41:25,359 --> 00:41:27,920
or two of these Ubot off.
752
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,319
problem is it lights up the aircraft
753
00:41:30,319 --> 00:41:33,880
carrier Audacity.
754
00:41:36,319 --> 00:41:40,640
>> God's sake. Must be the Audacity.
755
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,800
>> This is the ship that of course the Ubot
756
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:46,960
can then identify and they sink it.
757
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:47,119
Let's
758
00:41:47,119 --> 00:41:51,960
>> even things up. Fire death charges.
759
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,720
Come on.
760
00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:14,520
Buttercup has prevailed.
761
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,760
Four ships are sunk, but so are five
762
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,240
Ubot. You call that a victory for the
763
00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:24,000
convoy in that case?
764
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,119
We've lost five Ubot.
765
00:42:31,119 --> 00:42:34,160
>> Five Ubot.
766
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,800
We can't let this happen again. Have
767
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,079
they changed tactics?
768
00:42:38,079 --> 00:42:40,079
>> We've seen no evidence of that. They
769
00:42:40,079 --> 00:42:43,920
managed to blunder into our pack.
770
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,240
>> They must be using some new technology
771
00:42:46,240 --> 00:42:50,359
to help find our wolf packs.
772
00:43:02,319 --> 00:43:04,319
The British believe they have found a
773
00:43:04,319 --> 00:43:07,599
repost to the Yubot menace thanks to
774
00:43:07,599 --> 00:43:11,079
Johnny Walker.
775
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,240
>> Congratulations, Walker.
776
00:43:17,599 --> 00:43:19,920
You've delivered a long overdue message
777
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,960
to the Nazis and their damned yubot in
778
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:27,400
the best naval tradition.
779
00:43:31,839 --> 00:43:34,240
Thank you, sir. Although you should
780
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:36,480
thank Buttercup.
781
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,240
Buttercup.
782
00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:40,720
It's my pet name for my wife, Eileene,
783
00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:43,200
and it's the code name for the tactic we
784
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:44,960
came up with to give Jerry a taste of
785
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,800
their own medicine. I'm sorry. The idea
786
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,440
of Operation Buttercup is to force the
787
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,400
Ubot, the Herses, to dive. It's the
788
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,599
easiest way to finish off a submarine is
789
00:43:57,599 --> 00:43:59,440
underwater with depth charges. We
790
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,280
illuminate the sky so that we can see
791
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,359
them if they surface and try to slip
792
00:44:03,359 --> 00:44:05,200
away under cover of darkness.
793
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:08,240
>> I see.
794
00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:10,160
I'd like you to write up this buttercup
795
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,480
maneuver in full so that I can issue it
796
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,400
as part of our escort group operational
797
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,480
instructions.
798
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,359
Well done, Walker.
799
00:44:19,359 --> 00:44:22,680
Thank you, sir.
800
00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:27,280
Walker, superb commander, arguably the
801
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,200
best ace of the war, but at the same
802
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:32,160
time, he hadn't discovered the way the
803
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,960
Germans were operating. That took other
804
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:39,000
minds in another place.
805
00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:45,480
>> Hang on.
806
00:44:45,839 --> 00:44:49,079
Hang on.
807
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,520
>> Commander Roberts.
808
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:58,520
>> Yes. I was told to expect you.
809
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,960
Serious doubts have been raised on high
810
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,040
about Buttercup.
811
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,000
Senior British admirals suspect it is
812
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,040
another false dawn.
813
00:45:17,839 --> 00:45:19,760
>> The Royal Navy has to find a fresh
814
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,240
approach to Donuts' tactics in the
815
00:45:22,240 --> 00:45:24,079
Battle of the Atlantic. And they find
816
00:45:24,079 --> 00:45:26,560
Gilbert Roberts in an unusual place
817
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,480
training the Home Guard, retired, a
818
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:32,000
survivor of tuberculosis.
819
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,400
May I ask where you're taking me?
820
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:38,160
>> London, sir. The admiral's here.
821
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:39,920
>> Can I ask why?
822
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,119
>> No. Borders.
823
00:45:43,119 --> 00:45:45,440
>> Mystery tour.
824
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,760
What fun.
825
00:45:53,599 --> 00:45:56,079
Roberts is whisked up to London for a
826
00:45:56,079 --> 00:45:58,560
meeting with Ceil Osborne. Now, Ceil
827
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,880
Osborne is an aid to the Prime Minister
828
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,520
Winston Churchill.
829
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,440
>> Commander Roberts, thank you for coming
830
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,359
at such short notice. It was an
831
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invitation I couldn't receive, sir.
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>> Yes. Good. Straight to the point. It's
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clear that something needs to be done in
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the Battle of the Atlantic or we will
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lose the war. Simple as that. The prime
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minister is most worried. Merchant ships
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are being sunk at far faster rate than
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we are able to replace them. That's
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where you come in. I hear you've
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developed some interesting ideas about
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wargaming.
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I have, sir. Become something of a
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preoccupation.
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Good. We need to do something about the
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Ubot. A fortnight ago, we had a
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breakthrough. Captain Johnny Walker was
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escorting a fleet out of Gibralar. Faced
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with a full-on yubot attack, he managed
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to sink two. In all, we sank five.
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Walker, somewhat flush with his success,
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called the whole thing Buttercup.
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Buttercup.
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It's what he calls his wife, I believe.
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That's all well and good, but with my
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tactical hat on, I rather wonder whether
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Walker's success was not down to Lady
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Luck. Lucky butter.
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One more small thing before you go to
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Liverpool. Liverpool.
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Ah, yes, sir. We are ready.
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find out what's happening
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and sink the Ubot.
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>> Um, well, yes, of course.
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Time is not on your side, Roberts. You
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must uncover the Ubot's dirty tricks by
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recruiting and training a war gaming
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team. Got it?
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Yes, sir.
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School to play games. And I'll need men
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to staff the unit, too. All my best men
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are at sea.
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>> I hear you're in need of staff,
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>> sir.
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>> The rails.
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Ladies, if we lose the Battle of the
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Atlantic, we lose the war.
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>> Say the border set.
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>> Buttercup
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works.
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The Royal Navy are relying on luck to
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protect the convoys.
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>> We need to analyze yubot attacks and
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find a tactic to destroy them.57474
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