German U-Boat Captains Couldn't Believe U.S Mortars Sank Them in 90 Seconds скачать в хорошем качестве

German U-Boat Captains Couldn't Believe U.S Mortars Sank Them in 90 Seconds

In early 1943, the Battle of the Atlantic reached its turning point. For years, German U-boats had ruled the seas, their wolfpacks cutting through Allied convoys with ruthless precision. Commanders like Kapitänleutnant Hans-Jürgen Heinze and Oberleutnant Klaus Richter believed their submarines were invisible beneath the waves—ghosts of the deep that struck unseen and vanished without consequence. But that illusion shattered when the U.S. Navy unveiled a weapon unlike any before: the ninety-second mortar. Mounted on destroyers such as the USS Plunkett and MacDonough, this sonar-guided system could track and annihilate a U-boat in less than two minutes. The weapon turned convoy escorts from passive defenders into precise hunters. For the first time, the hunters became the hunted. Within months, U-boat losses soared. German captains reported being destroyed before they could even fire torpedoes, describing the attacks as “instant death from nowhere.” The Atlantic, once a graveyard for Allied shipping, now became a killing ground for submarines. This is the story of how American innovation—precision engineering, sonar targeting, and relentless crew training—broke the myth of U-boat invincibility and redefined modern naval warfare in just ninety seconds.