The Mid-Atlantic Gap, nicknamed "The Pit," was a hundreds-of-miles-wide void in the Atlantic where Allied aircraft could not ...

Norman Denning, a British intelligence officer from one of Hampshire’s most talented families, played a crucial role in determining the fate of thousands of Allied seamen during World War Two.

Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton British steam tanker HMS Empire Mica cruised east through calm waters toward Key West, Florida, where it planned to join a convoy bound for the United Kingdom.