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Germany Hunted by Coastal Command — The RAF’s Forgotten War

Fourteenth January nineteen forty-three. Mid-Atlantic Black Pit, four hundred miles south of Iceland. An R-A-F Liberator from one-two-zero Squadron circles through freezing rain, engines straining against headwinds. Below, Convoy O-N-one-six-one scatters under attack by six U-boats. Smoke rises from a torpedoed freighter. That month alone, eighty-seven merchantmen—four hundred fifty-eight thousand tons—were lost. Admiralty war diaries logged a ship sunk every six hours. Yet the Air Ministry still labeled Coastal Command "auxiliary." Only ten percent of its aircraft could even reach this sector. German B-d-U signals claimed confidently: "Beyond seven hundred miles there is no British air danger."