“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.”

—  Winston S. Churchill , book The Second World War

The Second World War, Volume II : Their Finest Hour (1949) Chapter XXX (Ocean Peril). p. 529.
Post-war years (1945–1955)

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