The Battle of the Atlantic:
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U-boat peril:
-U-boats using forward bases in France and Norway
-U-boats begin hunting in wolf pacts
-Germans fight a tonnage war
-convoys are used to get ships safely across the Atlantic
-proected by destroyers
-depth charges, asdic, hedgehog, radar and long range aircraft and carrier based aircraft all help cure the problem
how the mid-atlantic gap closed
-range of bombers increased
-carrier based aircraft
-more warships
-U-boats using forward bases in France and Norway
-U-boats begin hunting in wolf pacts
-Germans fight a tonnage war
-convoys are used to get ships safely across the Atlantic
-proected by destroyers
-depth charges, asdic, hedgehog, radar and long range aircraft and carrier based aircraft all help cure the problem
how the mid-atlantic gap closed
-range of bombers increased
-carrier based aircraft
-more warships
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Summary
The battle wasn't only in the air and land but on the sea. The u-boats were a major part of the war on the seas.
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"The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat."
-Jacques Yves Cousteau
-Jacques Yves Cousteau
Subjunctive Question
If WWII hadn't been a mobile war would u-boats have been necessary?