Explores the desperate struggle for survival on a hostile ocean during the longest and bloodiest battle of the Second World War.
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Battle of the Atlantic
July 7, 2002
July 21, 2002
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In the first three years of war, German U-boats threatened to starve Britain into submission, but by the spring of 1943 the tide had turned and the hunter had become the hunted. Eyewitness testimony, archive film and reconstructions illuminate the remarkable story of how, in just months, the Allies destroyed the U-boat fleet.
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