Battle of the Atlantic
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The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. A
Officers on the bridge of an escorting British destroyer stand watch for enemy submarines, October 1941
A lookout of a convoy escort, posing his binoculars on a depth charge thrower with which depth charges were launched to the sides of the escort
German submarine pens in Lorient, Brittany
Grand Admiral Erich Raeder with Otto Kretschmer (left), August 1940
Fliegerführer Atlantik
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Fliegerführer Atlantik was a World War II Luftwaffe naval air command for anti-maritime transport, anti-submarine, anti-surface fleet, close air support for the Kriegsmarine for operations in the Atla
A Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, the main threat to Atlantic convoys from the air
Adolf Hitler (left) with Hermann Göring, 1938
Photograph of KG 40 personnel, Bordeaux, 1941
The Hawker Sea Hurricane W9182 on the catapult of a CAM ship