The Battle of the AtlanticMacmillan, 1961 - 208 pages How the British and American Naval forces defeated the German U-boats and kept the lifeline to Britain open during World War 2. |
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENT | 7 |
Chapter | 13 |
The Battle Spreads Westwards | 91 |
Copyright | |
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able achieved Admiral Dönitz Admiralty ahead air escort aircraft Allied American anti-submarine asdic asdic contact astern Atlantic convoys attack Audacity boats British Canadian captain coast Coastal Command Commodore concentration convoy convoy battles convoy escort convoy routes convoy system convoy's crew cruiser damaged dark daylight defence depth-charges destroyers detected dive enemy escort commander escort forces escort groups explosions fired fleet Flower-class corvettes Focke-Wulf Focke-Wulf 200 Fowey freighter Gibraltar Günther Prien H/F D/F hunt Iceland intercepted Joachim Schepke Karl Dönitz knots Kondors Lieutenant-Commander losses merchant ships merchantmen miles months naval night North Atlantic ocean offensive operations Otto Kretschmer patrol line picked port position radar range round the convoy Royal Canadian Navy Royal Navy sailing independently senior officer sighted signals sinking Skeena sloop speed starboard starshells station Stork submarine submerged success surface escorts survivors target torpedoed trans-Atlantic U-boat commanders Walker warships weapon weather Western Approaches wolf-pack