naval operations, german

A history of German navy, focusing on its battleships and naval operations during World War II.

Chronicles the rise and eventual fall of Nazi Germany. Contents: Birth of the "U-boat peril" --A time for aces--Expanding the killing ground--The last, furious gasp.

Examines the origins and operations of Project LQ, a secret program initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 in which heavily armed warships were disguised as merchant ships in an attempt to counteract the onslaught of U-boats in the Atlantic.

The story of a German U-boat in the fall and winter of 1941 with a mission to send any Allied ship to the bottom.

Tells the story of the discovery in 1991 of a World War II German U-boat, sunk sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey, by deep sea divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, and their six year obsession with identifying the submarine which sank with its crew onboard.

In the waning days of World War II, a historic and little-known battle took place under the frozen seas off the coast of Norway and changed the course of the war. As the Germans were preparing for defeat, they packed a submarine (U-864) with their most advanced rocket and jet aircraft technology, a group of German and Japanese scientists, and tons of mercury for use in missile and torpedo detonation systems. With this they felt Japan could re-establish air superiority in the Pacific giving Germany the time to regroup and defend the Fatherland. Unbeknownst to them, British code breakers, working with the Norwegian underground, had discovered their plans and chased the U-864 throughout the North Atlantic. It evaded its pursuers and headed out to sea to complete its mission. But the British submarine HMS Venturer was waiting for it and in an intense cat-and-mouse game beneath the waves, the Venturer won, sinking the U-864 and becoming the only submarine in history to sink another sub in underwater combat.

On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania was sunk off the southern coast of Ireland by a German U-boat, the U-20. She exploded and sank in eighteen minutes, taking with her some twelve hundred passengers and crew. Besides hastening the United States' entry into World War I, the sinking of the Lusitania became a pivotal moment in history and the repercussions of this sinking affected Germany, the United States, Britain, and Europe, far into the 20th century.

Chronicles the British Navy's two-thousand-mile chase to sink the German battleship "Bismarck" in May 1941 after it sunk the British battleship, the HMS "Hood, " during the Battle of the Denmark Strait.

Describes the events of the major sea battle in the English Channel in February 1942 when the British navy failed to capture several strategically important German battleships.