1 real historical location · Atlantic Ocean
Tom Hanks as a US Navy commander on his first trans-Atlantic convoy command in 1942, hunted by a U-boat wolf pack across the Black Pit — the stretch of ocean beyond Allied air cover. Based on C.S. Forester's novel, it captures the relentless tension of the Battle of the Atlantic.
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USS Keeling escorts convoy HX-25 through the mid-Atlantic air gap — five days without air cover where U-boats hunted freely.
The 'Black Pit' was the zone beyond the range of Allied land-based aircraft where convoys had no air protection. In early 1942 the U-boats sank ships here almost at will. The crisis eased only when VLR (Very Long Rang...
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