UNDER ATTACK
The Second World War German U-boat campaign posed a major peril to the Allies. Great Britain, being an island nation, was the one most threatened. Since most supplies needed to keep the United Kingdom functioning had to be shipped in, U-boats sinking that transport was a serious concern.
Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Its waters are sheltered by six islands, and it has played an important role in travel, commerce, and conflict throughout the centuries.
Vikings anchored their longships in Scapa Flow more than a thousand years ago and it became the UK’s chief naval base during the First and
