4 real historical locations · Atlantic Ocean, Canada, United Kingdom
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.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Atlantic Ocean, Canada, United Kingdom.
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...
View location →Convoy HX-25 assembles in the protected anchorage before sailing into the North Atlantic — the last friendly port for weeks.
Argentia Bay was a major Allied naval base and convoy assembly point throughout the Battle of the Atlantic. It was also the site of the August 1941 Atlantic Charter meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt that shaped ...
View location →The strategic choke point between Greenland, Iceland and the UK — where every Allied convoy had to pass and where German wolf packs waited.
The GIUK Gap was the critical bottleneck of the Atlantic campaign. Until long-range aircraft and escort carriers closed the mid-ocean air gap, U-boats operated virtually unopposed here, sinking millions of tons of All...
View location →Western Approaches Command — the nerve center directing all North Atlantic convoy operations — was based in Liverpool's Derby House.
Derby House in Liverpool housed the combined British and Canadian headquarters controlling the Battle of the Atlantic. Its plotting room tracked every convoy and known U-boat position across 12 million square miles of...
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