
November 30, 1944. John Brown shipyard, Clydebank, Scotland. Princess Elizabeth, 18 years old, watched Britain launch its largest battleship, 44,500 tons standard displacement. 51,420 tons…

March 1943, Mid-Atlantic. Convoy HX229, 40 merchant ships, six escorts. Yubot Wolfpack detected convoy at dawn. Flowerclass corvettes increased to maximum speed 16 knots. Yubot…

March 1941, Cape Matapan, Eastern Mediterranean. HMS Ajax opened fire at 10,000 yards in total darkness, guided only by radar the Italians did not know…

Every naval history video shows the battles, the explosions, the sinkings. Nobody shows what happened next. A destroyer limps into Alexandria Harbor with a shattered…

On the morning of May 24, 1941, HMS Hood opened fire on the German battleship Bismar at a range of approximately 26,500 yd. 8 minutes…

October 15th, 1942, Noumea, New Caledonia, USS Argonne. Admiral Chester Nimitz climbed aboard the command ship. He’d flown 3,000 miles from Pearl Harbor to visit…

March 1943. North Atlantic convoy routes. Ubot are sinking 700,000 tons of Allied shipping per month. Wolfpacks of 30 submarines coordinate by radio, converging on…

January 1944, Westwood Hoe Beach, North Devon. A gathering of admirals and generals in dress uniform stood at top a pebble ridge. Binoculars raised, waiting…

November 1941, central Mediterranean. Two British-like cruisers and two destroyers sail from Malta into the night. Their target is a seven ship Italian convoy carrying…

June 1944, a captured airfield somewhere in Germany. Oberloitant Walter Wulfr, holder of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross, a man with 100 aerial…





