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TUE 27 OCT 1942War day 1,153Atlantic
The convoy’s losses were heavy; the timetable around it was about to matter just as much.
On 27 October 1942, the German wolfpack “Battleaxe” attacked Convoy SL-125, a group of 37 merchant ships sailing from Sierra Leone to the United Kingdom. The attack began west of the Canary Islands, off the northwest coast of Africa. It continued through 31 October. The convoy was crossing a stretch of the Atlantic where the fight over merchant shipping had become a central campaign: German U-boats targeted merchant vessels, while the Allies relied on convoys to move supplies across the ocean.
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