Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, later Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, KT, GCB, OM, DSO.
"It takes the Navy three years to build a ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition. The evacuation will continue."
The Liberty engine was used by the British to power the A13 Cruiser Tank Mk.III, A13 Mk.II Cruiser Tank Mk.IV, A15 Cruiser Tank Mk.VI Crusader, A24 Cruiser Tank Mk.VII Cavalier and A27L Cruiser Tank Mk.VIII Centaur. The engine was supplied by Nuffield, unfortunately it is not clear from the available sources whether this is a new production or (more likely) a remanufacture of older stored engines.
Much has been written about Nazi submarines, how much damage they have done to Atlantic shipping, and that this was probably the only means that could have excluded the United Kingdom from the war - and thus reverse the result of World War II.
But what do we know today about the opponents of the German U-Boats, the anti-submarine ships and their weapons, the escort and support groups, or their commanders, and the men who served on board these ships? It seems almost nothing.
Many people probably had the opportunity to enjoy the film of the same name from the works of Hollywood filmmakers. A heroic epic, before which the famous Soviet war films of yesteryear pale... The subject of this sentimental nonsense led me to take an interest in the fate of the real U 571. Just as an aside, let me note that rather than another "heroic epic" from the Hollywood studios, the heroism of the men who fought in one of the toughest and undoubtedly longest battles of World War II, the Battle of the Atlantic, could be commemorated and honored by filming any of the myriad stories that actually took place - which are undoubtedly far more compelling and imaginative than what we have been offered ...
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