GLOVES OFF: The Battle of The Atlantic

WHEN THE BATTLE of the Atlantic—the war’s longest campaign and history’s most destructive naval campaign—finally ended, more than 3,000 merchant ships had been sunk and more than 30,000 seamen killed. On the Axis side, some 27,000 officers and crew, 75 percent of those who fought in Kriegsmarine U-boats, lost their lives—a death rate higher than in …

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