Battle of the atlantic?

Question

If you could, can sombody give me random important imformation for the battle of the Atlantic. You know the one in WW2?

^^' THNX

Answer 1

some of these numbers are off the top of my head, so theres a +/ - here, but....

at a time when the average merchant ship displaced 7,000 tons and did barely 8 miles an hour, the Germans sank 20,000,000 tons

without having broken the German operational codes it's doubtful the Allies would have won

the casualty rate amongst Merchant Marine sailors was only exceeded by the US Marines

by the end of the war, 85% of U-boats that made a sortie were sunk.

Of the 850 odd out of 1000 built U-boats that were sunk, 700 were by Brit and Canadian forces and the balance American

U-505. captured on the high seas in 1944 is on display today in Chicago


if you really want to understand the Second Battle of the North Atlantic read Monserrat's "The Cruel Sea", the very best story by one who was there.

Answer 2

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of World War II, running from 1939 through 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 on 16 May 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.As an island nation with an overseas empire, the United Kingdom was highly dependent on sea-going trade. Britain required more than a million tons of imported food and material per week in order to be able to survive and fight on against Germany. In essence, the Battle of the Atlantic was a tonnage war: the Allied struggle to maintain and the Axis struggle to cut off the shipping that enabled Britain to survive.

From 1942 onwards, the Germans also sought to prevent the build-up of Allied troops and equipment in the British Isles in preparation for the invasion of occupied Europe and to destroy all Allied navies. The defeat of the German threat was a pre-requisite for the invasion.

Answer 3

The Bismarck and the chase for it was a major incident in that.

She managed to cripple or destroy several British ships before being hurt and then later destroyed.

German U-Boats actually managed to land men on US soil on a couple of occasions, but never to any effect.