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Vignette: Battle of the Atlantic

These sad and dramatic pictures are of the cargo ship SS Geraldine Mary that was torpedoed by a U-boat in the North Atlantic, 2 August 1940. The pictures were taken from a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF 10 Squadron) Sunderland flying … Continue reading

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In the news: World War II seaplane found in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence

This week, the Canadian newspaper The Province (30 July 2012)  reported on the ongoing US salvage operations to remove remains and artifacts from an American World War II PBY Catalina flying boat that had crashed and sunk in the Gulf of … Continue reading

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