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Torpedo attack on a convoy

6th February 1942: A convoy of American merchant ships and tankers comes under attack in mid Atlantic

Feb 6
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The north Atlantic was a forbidding place in winter even without the threat of U-boat attack.

The United States response to the U-boat threat was still evolving1. With the declaration of war on America the German U-boats had been directed to the western Atlantic, where the poorly defended ships on the US east coast made for easy pickings. It would not be…

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