John P. Holland and Simon Lake were the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of submarines. They didn’t know it then, but they changed the world. This episode is about these two giants who improved submarines, ironed out all the wrinkles, solved problems others couldn’t – and exported the submarine to the world.
Without Holland and Lake, it’s questionable whether submarines could have taken their place as they did in world history.
The Soviets continued to surprise the world with submarines that boggled the mind. But submarines couldn’t save the Bolshevik fantasy.
It’s the 1970s and early 1980s and the Soviets are giving NATO a run for their money.
It’s the 1960s. While the Soviets were upping their submarine game, the Americans maxed out their own subs’ espionage potential.
On October 27, 1962, amid the Cuban Missile Crisis, one submarine almost started Armageddon.
While the USSR flushed the seas with submarines, in the USA one Hyman G. Rickover pushed the US Navy into nuclear submarines and set up USS...
From the ashes of World War II rose the two new big boys on the block: the USSR and the United States. And they both knew that submarines...