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Description: -boats but also surface raiders and aircraft. Christened the Battle of the Atlantic by Winston Churchill on 6 March 1941. To survive, Britain needed imports of food, fuel and raw materials from overseas.If the battle had been lost it would have been the end for Britain. There would have been no base for the western Allies to launch a strategic air offensive or a land invasion of the continent to defeat Germany and Hitler would have been free to concentrate all his resources against the ...