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Darkest Before Dawn: U-482 and the Sinking of Empire Heritage 1944

Posted By: roxul
Date: 20 Jun 2022 14:20:39
Darkest Before Dawn: U-482 and the Sinking of Empire Heritage 1944

John Peterson, "Darkest Before Dawn: U-482 and the Sinking of Empire Heritage 1944"
English | ISBN: 0752458833 | 2011 | 192 pages | EPUB | 4 MB

The full story of one of the greatest Allied shipping losses of World War II



For the first time, this book describes how U-482 managed to slip undetected into the busy shipping lanes of the North Channel and carry out the last great U-boat patrol of the war. In the autumn of 1944 World War II was coming to an end, and the U-boats in the Atlantic had been beaten back through a massive program of Allied shipbuilding combined with tactical, technological, and intelligence improvements. The threat to Allied shipping had diminished but not disappeared, and a lone U-boat on its first active patrol slipped into the North Channel—in just a few days five ships lay broken on the seabed including the
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