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The Battle for the Atlantic
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<blockquote data-quote="Saints1" data-source="post: 310730" data-attributes="member: 12575"><p>I have just finished watching a 4 part series on National Geographic about the convoys on the Atlantic, and how close we were to being put on our knees by the German U-Boat threat. It's amazing how many times we looked into the abyss in that war only to pull ourselves up in the last minute. </p><p></p><p>The braveness of the Merchant Navy and the under-reported presence of the Canadian Navy (who invented the method for thwarting the Nazi torpedo that used vibrations to attack its prey) is something that the wider public don't know about.</p><p></p><p>The Battle of Britain is well known and of course it was massively important that we won that particular war (not least because planes were the single biggest threat to U-Boats) but in spite of all my reading, I didn't know that we were so close to packing it all in because supplies were in too short supply.</p><p></p><p>God bless everyone who fought and died in that war.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Saints1, post: 310730, member: 12575"] I have just finished watching a 4 part series on National Geographic about the convoys on the Atlantic, and how close we were to being put on our knees by the German U-Boat threat. It's amazing how many times we looked into the abyss in that war only to pull ourselves up in the last minute. The braveness of the Merchant Navy and the under-reported presence of the Canadian Navy (who invented the method for thwarting the Nazi torpedo that used vibrations to attack its prey) is something that the wider public don't know about. The Battle of Britain is well known and of course it was massively important that we won that particular war (not least because planes were the single biggest threat to U-Boats) but in spite of all my reading, I didn't know that we were so close to packing it all in because supplies were in too short supply. God bless everyone who fought and died in that war. [/QUOTE]
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