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After years of supremacy
at sea, Dönitz’s wolf pack
faced a new threat from
the Allies’ air forces

© Donald Freight; Getty “A STORM HAD WHIPPED UP THAT WAS SO FEROCIOUS THAT
THE CONVOY, WITH DWINDLING FUEL, WAS FORCED TO KEEP
STEAMING ALONG THE DOOMED COURSE FATE HAD SELECTED

FOR IT – DIRECTLY INTO THE U-BOATS’ KILLING GROUND”

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