“Nazi Attack on America,” a new PBS documentary, shows how close the Nazis came to bringing World War II to America’s shores — but just as importantly, it shows how ocean explorers helped raise a Navy captain from humiliation to hero status.
“This really brings closure on a story that began a month before I was born, 73 years ago,” Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who rediscovered the Titanic 30 years ago, says at a crucial point in the hour-long show.
The story begins in 1942 with the U-boats — the fleet of German submarines that terrorized ship traffic between the United States and Europe.
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