Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, just one really scared him--what he called the Measureless peril of the German U-boat campaign.
At the start, U-boats patrolled a few m.
Hitler knew that victory depended on controlling the sea-lanes where American food and fuel and weapons flowed to the Allies.
In that global conflagration, only one battle--the struggle for the Atlantic--lasted from the very first hours of the conflict to its final day.
Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, just one really scared him--what he called the Measureless peril of the German U-boat campaign