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Under the cover of darkness and the northern lights.
Key point: Breaching the British base had been an unrealized German dream, until now...
In October 1939, illuminated by the northern lights, the German submarine U-47 threaded its way through sunken barriers and slipped into the British anchorage at Scapa Flow, a 125.3-square-mile natural port off the northern coast of Scotland, in the Orkney Islands.
Penetrating the anchorage had long been an unrealized German dream... Читать дальше...