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Hitler's Lost Sub
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Program Overview
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NOVA follows an American dive team trying to identify the wreck of a German U-boat 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey.
The program:
follows researchers as they spend more than six years diving to the 230-foot- (70-meter) deep wreck searching for clues to its identification.
depicts the challenges of deep-sea diving.
documents changes in submarine design from the 1800s to after WWII using diagrams, actual movie footage, and interviews with surviving German
submariners.
provides accounts of what life was like on a submarine.
outlines the use of submarines and their attack and defense strategies in WWI and WWII.
depicts Drumbeat, a German submarine operation that executed attacks on American shipping along the Atlantic Coast during the winter of 1941-1942.
relates the Allies' development of technology, such as improved radar and sonar, that played an important part in neutralizing the success of German submarine warfare toward WWII's end.
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