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You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Vincent Dowd.

When Britain went to war in 1939, the military challenges were massive.

The country lagged behind Germany in warships, aircraft and much else.

Yet had the Germans mounted an invasion, Britain would have lost the economic

means to fight on almost at once. The nation's financial reserves, in the form of gold bars bars were highly vulnerable at the Bank of

England in London. That gold needed to go somewhere far away.

In the broad expanse of mid-Atlantic, units of the British Navy guard the ocean that is the most vital battle zone of the war.

In the Grim's struggle to maintain our supplies of food and weapons.

In World War II, the Atlantic Lifeline was vital to Britain. Ships from North America brought

food, goods and weapons large and small.

With the US still neutral there was also a top-secret traffic from Britain to

Canada. In July 1940 in the House of Commons in London, those arrangements were hinted at.

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood,

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