Facing the Battle of the Atlantic and shortages of steel, British planners backed an extreme proposal to build an aircraft ...

In the early months of the Second World War, German U-Boats were wreaking havoc against Allied shipping in the North Atlantic. Convoys from the United States especially suffered while German submarine ...

Project Habakkuk was a wartime proposal to build an enormous aircraft carrier from “pykrete,” an ice-and-wood-pulp composite pitched as strong, slow to melt, and difficult to sink. The transcript ...

In early 1942, England was in danger of being cut off by Nazi U-boats, which were attacking resupply convoys in the Atlantic. To protect convoys as they crossed, a British inventor came up with a plan ...

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Britain was losing the Battle of the Atlantic, with German U-boats sinking ship after ship. Enter Project Habakkuk, the incredible plan to build an aircraft carrier from ice. Project Habakkuk was a ...

Lasting five years, eight months and five days, the Battle of the Atlantic was the longest military campaign of WWII. Allied supply convoys were being continuously threatened by German U-boats and ...