It was the moment they saw a fleet that filled the horizon, a sky black with enemy planes, and a force that was not just an army, but the full crushing weight of the modern industrial world.

It was a new kind of war, one not in the hearts of soldiers, but on the assembly lines of factories thousands of miles away.

And for one German officer peering through his binoculars at a sea that had turned to steel, it was the morning he knew it was

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