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mookiemookie · 06-16-09, 08:00 AM

I remember reading that the Channel was closed per orders from BdU fairly early in the war (end of 1939-ish) and U-boats were ordered all the way around the Shetland Islands to reach the Atlantic.

06-16-09, 08:00 AM	#9
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