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Post by THE SS ANGLO SAXON on Jul 5, 2008 21:52:06 GMT
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Post by Administrator on Jul 5, 2008 21:59:54 GMT
Winston Churchill wrote that nothing gave him more anxiety than the U-boat offensive against British merchant shipping. Indeed, so grievous were the losses during what U-boats called their “happy time” that news of what was happening in the Battle of the Atlantic was censored.
The nub of the war at sea was this; the whole raison d’être of the German navy from battleship down to the small fast punch-packing E-boats was aimed at sinking the merchant navy and the greatest task of the Royal Navy was the protection of the merchantmen.
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