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How One Sailor’s Forbidden Depth Charge Modification Sank 7 U Boats — Navy Banned It For 2 Years March 17th, 1941.037 hours. The North Atlantic, 40 mi northeast of Ireland. Commander Donald McIntyre stands rigid on the bridge of HMS Walker, his knuckles white against frozen steel. Below him, 41 merchant vessels push eastward through 30foot swells. Their hulls weighted with Britain’s lifeline. food, fuel, ammunition, steel. Behind them, invisible in the darkness, at least five German Ubot circle like wolves. What he doesn’t know, what the Admiral T doesn’t know, is that within the next 6 hours, this very night, two of Germany’s three greatest submarine aces will be destroyed using methods the Royal Navy has explicitly forbidden. One of them will perish in a ramming. The other will surface with catastrophic flooding, oil slicks spreading across the black water, her crew scrambling topside with hands raised in surrender. But this is getting ahead of our story. The statistics paint a portrait of Britain dying by degrees. In 1940 alone, German yubot sent 471 Allied vessels, 2. 5 million tons, to the ocean floor. Each month, submarines destroy merchant ships faster than British shipyards can build replacements. The mathematics are brutal and simple………….. Full in the comment 👇
March 17th, 1941.037 hours. The North Atlantic, 40 mi northeast of Ireland. Commander Donald McIntyre stands rigid on the bridge of HMS Walker, his knuckles...
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