Hell Below - Season 2
Season 2
Episodes
In Enemy Waters
USS Silversides and its swashbuckling skipper, Creed Burlingame, saw their first action in the Pacific in May 1942. More than a dozen patrols later, the sub now rests in Muskegon, Michigan as a museum, an ongoing testament to its extraordinary history. Witness one of Silversides' most dramatic missions: aiding Marines in Guadalcanal by keeping Japanese reinforcements from reaching the island. It's an assignment fraught with depth charge attacks and aerial bombardments that nearly ended the mission and its crew. The sub experienced a jammed torpedo and an emergency appendectomy whilst intercepting Japanese ships deep in enemy waters.
Submarine Sabotage
June 1945. With Japanese merchant shipping slowed to a trickle, US Medal of Honor Recipient, Commander Eugene Fluckey plots to destroy shore based targets along Japan's coast - a campaign that develops unprecedented tactics.
U-Boat Killers
In January 1944, the U-515, commanded by Werner Henke, defies the odds and escapes both Allied depth charges and aircraft to sink ships and return to port despite severe damage. Ten weeks later, the German U-Boat is put to the ultimate test. In April 1944, U-515 heads to the African Gold Coast, where it is tested by one of the new Hunter Killer Groups led by Captain Daniel Gallery.
Defying Rommel
It's 1941, and German Gen. Erwin Rommel and his armies hope to take Egypt, gain control of the Suez Canal, and prevent Britain from receiving vital supplies from the colony of India and the Middle East. The Allies' last line of defense is a fleet of small, British Royal Navy U-class subs stationed on the tiny island of Malta. Despite unpredictable weather and a broken gyrocompass, HMS Upholder and its Lieutenant-Commander Malcolm Wanklyn hunt Italian supply ships to hold the line against the Axis powers and turn the tide of the North African Campaign.
Sub vs. Sub
February 1945. Below icy Norwegian waters HMS Venturer stalks German U-Boat 864 in a rare WWII submarine attack where both subs operate submerged.
Cuban Crisis
When Soviet submarine, B-59, is discovered "practice depth charges" are dropped; nearly inciting a nuclear war.
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