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Nazi 'Battle Cruisers' in the Atlantic

20th March 1941: The menace of 'surface raiders' is a new threat to countered in the Battle of the Atlantic

Mar 20, 2026
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Scharnhorst (in foreground) and the Gneisenau, often operated as a pair of commerce raiders
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