Operation Seawolf

SOMEWHERE IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN MAY 12TH, 1918

The torpedoes are ready. Orders, sir?

There it is. It's ready for firing.

To battle stations!

Battle stations!

Battle stations.

- Captain! - Yes, my boy?

Happy hunting.

Good job, Hans.

The wave will pass.

Remember your training, it will serve you well.

Alarm!

Prepare torpedoes one and two for firing!

- Captain?! - Fire at will!

Flood one and two!

Fire at will!

45 seconds for impact.

Sir, what is going on?

The ship is coming directly towards us.

Ram us?

All power towards the engines, hurry.

Sir, we must try for the surface.

Yes.

Hurry up.

Get off the boat.

Abandon ship.

Abandon ship!

Abandon ship.

Sir.

You'll make a good captain one day, Kessler.

It's my duty.

US NAVY ATLANTIC FLEET COMMAND NORFOLK, VIRGINIA APRIL 27TH, 1945

Sir, Operation Sea Wolf.

The Germans are preparing a missile-armed submarine attack

against the United States coast.

V-1 rockets attached to Type Nine submarines?

Looks like it, sir.

Who's this?

Senior Commander Heinrich Kessler,

13th Flotilla, Iron Cross winner, wounded in the Great War.

U-Boat ace since the beginning.

Pegged to command his wolf pack.

This is a very dangerous man.

All right, keep me informed of any updates.

Yes, sir.

TRONDHEIM, NORWAY

...however, we have now completed an armament,

as the world has not seen before. I have...

...after he rejected that...

...I have equipped Germany in these five years.

I have spent billions on it,

the German nation has to know that now. I have...

We have created the best air

and tank defense in the world.

Through tireless work, day and night.

I approached all the seemingly impossible problems

with the firm will...

It's propaganda.

You Germans and propaganda.

I must go.

If it's all propaganda, why must you go?

Duty.

Oh, what is duty, leaving everything you love behind?

MILITARY NAVY COMMAND POST NORWAY

I keep them there to remember.

Once, this room was filled with friends.

But now, we are all that is left.

How are you, my friend?

- Good? - Good.

Good.

Commander.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

Even at the end, we are soldiers.

Gentlemen, I need a moment alone with this man.

Please.

We have much to discuss, not a lot of time.

Follow me.

Yes, sir.

What are my orders, Commander?

Why am I here?

Straight to the point.

It is no secret, the U-boats have been performing poorly.

The British and the Americans

have made it a priority to hunt us down.

The Fuhrer has not been pleased.

The Fuhrer needed more boats,

ask to bring in the others.

Let me show you something.

You see this?

It's the American coast.

New York City, the heart of the American war effort.

Operation Sea Wolf.

We tried these operations, we have failed.

V-1 rocket, Hitler's wonder weapon.

We shall equip these rockets to our U-boats

and attack the American coast.

Our fleets will strike fear into the heart of the enemy.

You will lead the pack.

At the beginning of the war,

our pack ruled the waves, steel, blood, fire, fear.

These were our thoughts.

Now we have our dreams of one of our person,

victory is out of our grasp.

The Fuhrer has spared no expense for this operation.

No expense.

None.

A pack needs wolves.

Let me show you some wolves.

Attention.

Your wolves.

These are not wolves but boys.

Young boys.

Were you and I much different from them?

When the war started,

I spent nine months with my men before going into action.

They have had the finest training Germany has to offer.

Do they know what the risks are?

They know the risks.

They are ready to die for country and Fuhrer.

These are not Kriegsmarine.

Then teach them Kriegsmarine.

I will do it.

Operation Sea Wolf.

You will leave with three ships.

Seven more will join you when you are out to sea.

10 boats.

You will be the spear point for more to follow.

And I'll see our targets?

Allied shipping lanes, north of New York.

The missile attack?

New York City.

Departure?

The crews await your word.

I believe I'd first,

I like to meet my officers and see the boat.

I would expect nothing less.

The officers of U-546.

You, Lieutenant.

Lieutenant Erich Reinhart, sir.

Acting captain of U-546.

Captain?

Reinhart was in line to be captain,

but under your leadership he was glad to step aside.

Isn't that right, Lieutenant?

I'm looking forward to serving under your command.

The boat?

Lieutenant Lutz.

- Operational? - Engines are ready, sir.

Lieutenant Handel Speer, sir.

The crew is in high morale, sir.

Good, good.

Good. Let's go inspect my boat and get some food.

Sea Wolf.

Let the Commander know I need to see him now.

Yes, sir.

Commander?

Come in.

Operation Sea Wolf is a go.

Confirmed?

Just came over the wires, confirmed by Enigma.

War room.

- We got our work to do. - Yes, sir.

In unprecedented demonstrations of millions

the entire German nation has united today

to work, to their values,

their moral ethos

and to their national solidarity.

This evening, across national,

and denominational differences,

the whole German nation comes together,

to finally...

Morning, sir.

Well, Heinrich.

The time has come.

The ghosts stay here in port.

It's now just you, the crew, and the mission.

Are you prepared?

If the crew is half as good as the boats, I'm confident

under the circumstances.

There it is then.

I leave you to your second home, the sea and the ship.

Good luck, my friend.

Good luck to you.

Attention.

At ease.

I know you do not know me.

I do not know you.

The men of the sea are a special brotherhood,

a bond forged out of the ocean.

A U-boat's crew is life, the blood.

Our worth will be measured to surface of the sea.

I know each one of you will do your duty.

I will not disappoint you.

Do not disappoint me.

All hands to stations.

You heard the Captain.

All hands to stations.

Take her out, engine six knots, starboard 108 degrees.

Yes Captain, Lutz.