Deep-trap u-boat casualties

AN EXAMPLE OF DEEP LAYERED, CO-ORDINATED DEFENCE IN PLACE DURING THE SUMMER OF 1940

On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying

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In the event of a Nazi invasion, Britain would have deployed a network of deadly defences to impede the enemy at every turn

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Trevor Martin recalls a testing voyage that taught him almost all he needed to know for the next 20 years of sailing