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y 1942, the Germany was winning the ongoing Battle of the Atlantic. The of the Kriegsmarine were slowly strangling Britain by sending tonnes and tonnes of shipping and the vital supplies to the bottom of the ocean. Britain was all but powerless to stop these marauding U-boats as they plundered convoy after convoy. But not totally powerless; the U-boats had to deal with the vigilance of the Royal Air Force’s forgotten heroes: the pilots

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