Examples of tonnage in the following topics:
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- In essence, the Battle of the Atlantic was a tonnage war: the Allies struggled to supply Britain, while the Axis attempted to stem the flow of merchant shipping which enabled Britain to keep fighting.
- Discuss the tonnage war in the Atlantic between Allied merchant ships and the German Navy and Airforce.
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- The sheer tonnage of explosive delivered by day and by night was eventually sufficient to cause widespread damage, and, more importantly from a military point of view, forced Germany to divert resources to counter it.