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Question

what was the battle of the atlantic???
help i'm having trouble understanding it.

Answer 1

Thats wikipedia site, check it out all the answers

first battle or second?

Answer 2

World War Two. England was on it's own against the Axis for a long time. As Canada and after '41, America tried to ship troops and equipment across the pond, the German Navy would sink many ships with their U-Boat patrols causing massive casualties and loss of equipment. The Battle of the Atlantic was the Allies trying to gain control of the seas over Germany. It was a very long and hard battle. It took years to push the German Navy back. It was with the sinking of the Bizmark, a massive German Battleship that the battle was considered won. However, even to the very end of the war, German U-Boats, submarines, were causing damage to the Allies. But not at such a large scale as they were in the early phases of the war.

Everyone knew to successfully invade continental Europe, the seas had to be won. The push was on for a long time.

Answer 3

there were 3 of them:
The First Battle of the Atlantic (1914–1918) was a naval campaign of World War I, largely fought in the seas around the British Isles and in the Atlantic Ocean. The United Kingdom relied heavily on imports to feed its population and supply its war industry; the German navy aimed to blockade and starve Britain using commerce raiders and unrestricted submarine warfare.
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of World War II, running from 1939 right through to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, and was at its height from mid-1940 through to about the end of 1943. The campaign pitted the German Navy’s surface raiders and U-boats against Allied convoys from North America and the South Atlantic to the United Kingdom and Russia, protected mainly by the British and Canadian navies and air forces, later aided by United States ships and aircraft. The German U-boats were joined by Italian submarines after Italy entered the war in 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 next 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. Promising new German submarines arrived in 1945, too late to affect the course of the war.

A Third Battle of the Atlantic was envisioned to be part of any Third World War that arose out of the Cold War. Trans-Atlantic convoys would have to be protected from the Soviet Navy and as a result, the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy developed anti-submarine warfare capabilities. This affected much of the two navies' operational planning.

Answer 4

In World War Two, German U-boats tried to destroy Allied convoys trying to re-supply England. The Navy fought the U-boats. That's it in a nutshell

Answer 5

http://www.mariner.org/atlantic/photos/a1.htm