CHURCHILL PROCLAIMS BATTLE OF ATLANTIC
London, England • March 6, 1941 By January 1941 the Allies had lost 1,300 merchant vessels, almost half of them to German U‑boats. Following the enslavement of 120 million people in 7 Western and Eastern European countries by Nazi Germany in 1940, the British were reduced to fighting Adolf Hitler’s military juggernaut alone. In alarm they watched the…