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Bottling Up the U-Boats

All Hands Magazine — March 1953

This five-page retrospective from March 1953 examines the Allied campaign against German U-boats during World War II. By 1943, improved convoy tactics, long-range patrol aircraft, radar, and hunter-killer groups had turned the tide of the Battle of the Atlantic, sinking U-boats faster than Germany could replace them and ending the submarine threat to Allied supply lines.

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