Battle of the Atlantic
Military Conflict
Veteran, 84, thumps gun-wielding thief at legion...life in some situations." But this was not the first time Dietsch has put his life in danger. Back in 1943, during the height of the Battle of the Atlantic, the 18-year-old from Scarborough signed up with Royal Canadian Navy. He spent... In this article: North Atlantic, Battle of the Atlantic, and World War II |
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BBC News | November 11, 2009
Costs sink plan to raise U-boat from seabed
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Sunday Mirror | November 07, 2009
The heroes' trail: Visit the places where our freedom was won
...firing range - somewhere troops could train prior to D-Day. Lying deep beneath an ordinary Liverpool street, it was here that the Battle of the Atlantic was planned and won. Many of the 100 rooms look as they would have done in those...
In this article: World War One, Duxford, Bovington Tank Museum, Bletchley Park, Battle of Britain, World War Two, RAF, Luftwaffe, and HMS Royal Oak
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thestar.com | November 06, 2009
Hot Box: TV worth talking about
...History Television will air the four-part documentary Convoy: War for the Atlantic, a Canadian/British co-production about the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II, from Sunday through Wednesday. McClanahan's Heart Bypass: Golden...
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Telegraph.co.uk - Obituaries | October 07, 2009
Lives Remembered
...who sailed on Polish vessels under the command of the Royal Navy from the first day of the Second World War, participating in the Battle of the Atlantic, the Arctic Convoys, Operation Torch and at D-Day. He was in command of the anti-aircraft...
In this article: New York, Operation Torch, Second World War, Royal Navy, Mr Fox, London School of Theology, and Juicy Couture
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Wales Online | September 25, 2009
Flying boat centre could soon house only Mark I version in world
The centre tells the story of RAF Pembroke Dock - the largest flying boat base in the world - and its key contribution to the Battle of the Atlantic. Among wartime flying boat veterans who took part in yesterday's opening was Wing...
In this article: Mark I and World War II
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Independent.ie | September 17, 2009
Town to honour WWII U-boat crew for saving 28 sailors' lives
...and her captain, Werner Lott, will be unveiled by the German Ambassador to mark the chivalrous act by the so-called 'Sea Wolves' of the Battle of the Atlantic. On October 4, 1939, locals in Ventry and Ballymore were astonished to see a German...
In this article: Werner Lott, World War II, Barrow, Tower of London, and Freetown
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New Kerala | September 11, 2009
US Navy ship sunk in World War II battle located
...Carolina known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, home to US and British naval vessels, merchant ships, and German U-boats sunk during the Battle of the Atlantic. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and its expedition...
In this article: US Navy, World War II, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, North Carolina, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and Jay A. DeLoach
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BBC News | September 01, 2009
Are you marking the start of WWII?
...2009, 10:07 GMT 11:07 UK Added: Tuesday, 1 September, 2009, 11:13 GMT 12:13 UK My grandad was a Merchant seaman and was in the Battle of the Atlantic but even he says that it's time we laid it all to rest. The German's have had to...
In this article: World War II, Poland, UK, Germany, Russia, Lech Kaczynski, and Dresden
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Times Online | July 09, 2009
Enigma codebreakers of Bletchley to be honoured
...that the empty plinth at Trafalgar Square should be a tribute to the code breakers. Without Ultra Dunkirk would have been a massacre, the Battle of the Atlantic lost, and Britain would have been had to surrender. A selection of the best...
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Wales Online | June 25, 2009
Veteran will never forget Battle of the Atlantic
..."Churchill said: 'We have fought battles all over the world, but the battle we cannot afford to lose is the Battle of the Atlantic. ' I'll never forget it. " Churchill also said that the Battle of the Atlantic and the U-Boat threat was "the...
In this article: Winston Churchill, Atlantic, Montreal, Armed Forces Day, and World War II
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The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign
of World War II,
(though some say it was a series of naval military campaigns and offensives)
running from 1939 through the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, and was at its height from mid-1940 through to the end of 1943.
The Battle of the Atlantic pitted U-boats and other warships of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) against Allied convoys. The convoys, coming mainly from North America and the South Atlantic and going to the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, were protected for the most part by the British and Canadian navies and air forces. These forces were aided by ships and aircraft of the United States from 13 September 1941. The Germans were joined by submarines of the Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina) after Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940.
The name "Battle of the Atlantic", first coined by Winston Churchill in 1941, is a partial misnomer for a campaign that began on the first day of the European war and lasted for six years, involved thousands of ships and stretched over hundreds of miles of the vast ocean and seas in a succession of more than 100 convoy battles and perhaps 1,000 single-ship encounters. Tactical advantage switched back and forth over the six years as new weapons, tactics and counter-measures were developed by both sides. The British and their allies gradually gained the upper hand, driving the German surface raiders from the ocean by the middle of 1941 and decisively defeating the U-boats in a series of convoy battles between March and May 1943. New German submarines arrived in 1945, but they were too late to affect the course of the war.
- Name:
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Date:
- September 03, 1939
- Outcome:
- Allied victory
- Location:
- Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, Irish Sea, Labrador Sea, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Arctic Ocean
- Combatant:
- *
- Casualties:
- 30,264 merchant sailors
- Part of:
- World War II
- Commander:
- Erich Raeder
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