Episode Details

In February 1945, a brand-new German submarine slipped out of Norway bound for Japan, carrying jet engine parts, missile technology, two Japanese engineers, and about sixty-five tons of mercury. British codebreakers were reading its messages. Waiting off the coast was a small British submarine whose captain was about to attempt something no one had ever done in combat. In this episode: the only known battle in which one submerged submarine sank another — and the toxic cargo Norway is still trying to deal with eighty years later.

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