You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

Hello, this is Matt from the Explorers podcast.

I want to invite you to join me on the voyages and journeys of the most famous explorers in the history of the world.

These are the thrilling and captivating stories of Vigllan, Shackleton, Lewis, and Clark,

and so many other famous, and not so famous, adventures from throughout history.

Go to Explorerspodcast.com or just look us up on your podcast app.

That's the Explorers Podcast.

Music Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War episode 160,

The Early War at Sea Part 10, early U-boat campaigns.

This week, a big thank you goes out to James for deciding to become a

member to support the podcast. You can find out more over at History of the Second World War.com

slash members. When war was declared between Germany and Great Britain on September 3, 1939,

the Battle of the Atlantic started as the German U-boats began their attacks on enemy merchant shipping. The early months, the Battle of the Atlantic started, as the German U-Boats began their attacks on

enemy merchant shipping. The early months of the Battle of the Atlantic would be unique in many ways.

First of all, the U-boats were acting under very stringent rules of engagement, that were not

what Raider or Donuts or the rest of the Kriegsmarine believed was what they needed for

victory.

These rules would not be changed until later in the month, and they were really driven by political

concerns.

This resulted in an interesting statistic that during September 1939, about one quarter of all

ships that were sank by U-boats were actually put under the waves by the U-boats' deck guns

instead of by torpedoes.

...