British Royal Navy Sinks Three Nazi German U-Boats (1942) | British Pathé

This amazing footage from 1942 captures the British Navy sinking three Nazi German U-Boats during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II.

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Titles read: "NAVY SINKS THREE U-BOATS".

Atlantic Sea.

Several shots of a British naval convoy at sea. Brief shots of U-boats as commentator talks of German planes and U-boats attacking a British convoy of over 30 ships. German planes drop bombs. Various shots of warship guns firing. Footage taken by an amateur cameraman on one of the destroyers shows explosions in the sea around the U-boats and a U-boat sinking - very dark and poor quality "but they are the real thing".

The amateur footage freezes for a few seconds so we can make out some blobs in the water, which we are told are U-boat survivors.

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