To counter the Royal Navy’s oceanic supremacy during the first months of World War 2, Adolf Hitler ordered his Kriegsmarine to deploy its feared U-boats in hopes of picking off lightly-defended Allied cargo convoys. At the time, the British relied on the practical but somewhat outdated Lockheed Hudson coastal reconnaissance aircraft to patrol its waters and face the state-of-the-art German submarines.However, on August 24, 1941, the situation was flipped on its head when the novice crew of the German U-570 was rushed into enemy waters to complete its first war patrol based on urgent and newly-obtained intelligence. The U-570 should have had no trouble with that Royal Air Force Hudson that would soon spot it. However, the U-boat inexplicably surfaced, making itself a surprisingly easy target. The fight was almost comically inept, and it would become the only time during the war in which a U-boat surrendered to enemy aircraft without the support of surface ships. The Royal Navy would also eventually put U-570 to good use against its own creators in a surprising twist…