Image: British cargo ships built under Lend-Lease are launched at South Portland, Maine, during a record-breaking mass launch, 16 August 1942 — photograph by Albert Freeman; courtesy of the US Library of Congress, public domain.
What was so important about Cyril Thompson and the British Shipbuilding Commission in the USA? When was the first Liberty ship made? How did Hitler and the Luftwaffe prevent the U-Boats from becoming more effective in The Atlantic Ocean? Join James Holland and Al Murray for part 4 of this deep dive on the war in the Atlantic, the most vital theatre of war in WW2 and the long-running campaign between the British Royal Navy and the Nazi German Kriegsmarine.
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Meet the Speakers
James Holland
Historian, writer, and podcaster, specialises in World War II and hosts "We Have Ways" podcast.
Al Murray
Al Murray, comedian, writer, and historian, co-hosts the WWII podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk and writes on
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