Convoy HG 76
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Convoy HG 76 was an Allied convoy of the HG series, during the Second World War. It was notable for the destruction of five German U-boats, although the true total was not known to the British until a
HMS Audacity, after conversion to an escort carrier
FAA Grumman Martlet
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