Fact

Some Atlantic Convoys Included Ships Meant Mainly to Pick Up Survivors

Air & Sea War 1939–1945 North Atlantic

Rescue ships were fitted out to retrieve and treat men from torpedoed vessels in waters where minutes mattered.

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Fact

The Long-Range Liberator Helped Close the Mid-Atlantic “Air Gap”

Air & Sea War 1943 Mid-Atlantic

For a time, submarines thrived where escorts and land-based aircraft could not reach. Range solved part of the problem.

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Story

Merchant Seamen Endured a Kind of Repeated Bereavement

Air & Sea War 1939–1945 Atlantic and Arctic routes

Convoy service imposed long stretches of strain punctuated by sudden disappearances of ships and friends.

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