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German submarine U889, 13 May 1945.

German submarine U889, 13 May 1945
By the end of 1940, U-boats had sunk almost two million tons of Allied shipping in the Battle of the Atlantic. The German submarine pictured here, U889, surrendered to Allied forces in May 1945 at Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

Photographer: Richard Graham Arless. Courtesy of Library and Archives Canada (PA-173333), Ottawa, Ontario.

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