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great white shark

Before Shark Week and ‘Jaws,’ World War II spawned America’s shark obsession

July 9, 2021 by Janet Davis

Every summer on the Discovery Channel, “Shark Week” inundates its eager audiences with spectacular documentary footage of sharks hunting, feeding and leaping.

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