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The Atlantic Battle Won: Volume 10 May 1943 - May 1945
399
by Samuel Eliot Morison
Samuel Eliot Morison
The Atlantic Battle Won: Volume 10 May 1943 - May 1945
399
by Samuel Eliot Morison
Samuel Eliot Morison
Hardcover(Revised ed.)
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Overview
This spectacular 15 volume series charts the US Naval operations during World War II with an insider's perspective. Morison, a Harvard professor, was given a special rank and writing post by FDR. He had active duty aboard eleven different ships, allowing him to witness many crucial battles in both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Includes many maps and official file photographs.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780316583107 |
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Publisher: | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date: | 01/30/1956 |
Edition description: | Revised ed. |
Pages: | 399 |
Sales rank: | 550,153 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.19(d) |
Age Range: | 13 Years |
Table of Contents
Preface | ix | |
Abbreviations | xxix | |
I | Introduction, September 1939-April 1943 | 3 |
II | Tenth Fleet, March-September 1943 | 12 |
1. | American and British Antisubmarine Commands | 12 |
2. | Tenth Fleet Emerges, April-May | 21 |
3. | The Navy-Air Force "Horse Trade," August-September | 26 |
Notes on the Navy-Air Force Controversy | 29 | |
III | New Antisubmarine Ships and Aircraft | 32 |
1. | The Destroyer Escorts | 32 |
2. | The Escort Carriers | 37 |
3. | Antisubmarine Aircraft | 42 |
IV | New Training and Technical Developments | 47 |
1. | The "Antisubmarine University" | 47 |
2. | Technical Developments | 52 |
V | The German Underwater Fleet, 1943-1945 | 55 |
1. | Hitler, Raeder and Doenitz | 55 |
2. | German Submarine Construction | 60 |
Note on Italian Submarines | 64 | |
VI | Northern Transatlantic Convoys, April-May 1943 | 65 |
1. | The Ordeal of ONS-5 | 65 |
2. | Debut of the Escort Carrier Group | 76 |
VII | Ushant to Finisterre, 1943 | 85 |
1. | Coastal Command and Army Air Force | 85 |
2. | The Bay Offensive, March-June | 89 |
3. | "Madcats" and B-24s in the Big Slaughter, 20 July-2 August | 93 |
4. | PB4Ys in the Bay Offensive, August-December | 99 |
VIII | The Central Atlantic and Azores, May-August 1943 | 108 |
1. | CVEs, Supporting Convoys and on the Loose, May-June | 108 |
2. | The Azores Happy Hunting Ground, July-August | 116 |
3. | Finisterre to Cape Juby, July-August | 129 |
IX | North Atlantic Crossings, September-November 1943 | 133 |
1. | Troop and Tanker Convoys to Britain | 133 |
2. | The Zaunkonig Blitz on Convoy ON-202 | 135 |
3. | The Blitz Fizzles Out, October-November | 146 |
X | The Central Atlantic Grind, October-December 1943 | 153 |
1. | Central Atlantic Convoys | 153 |
2. | Card and Core Score Four, 3-20 October | 159 |
3. | Borie's Last Battle, 1-2 November | 162 |
4. | Bogue Gets Four More, November-December | 168 |
5. | Card Scores Again, but Loses Leary, 17-25 December | 171 |
XI | East Coast and Caribbean, April-December 1943 | 178 |
1. | Eastern Sea Frontier "Nuisances," April-July | 178 |
2. | Mining Offensive, June-October | 184 |
3. | Caribbean Blitz, July-August | 188 |
4. | Panama Run-around, October-December | 198 |
XII | South Atlantic, May 1943-January 1944 | 208 |
1. | Fourth Fleet | 208 |
2. | Nuisances and Precursors, May-June | 210 |
3. | July Blitz off Brazil | 215 |
4. | Air and Patrol Battles around Ascension, September-December | 223 |
XIII | In Arctic Waters, May-December 1943 | 229 |
1. | High Jinks in High Latitudes | 229 |
2. | North Russia Run Reopened, November-December | 233 |
3. | The Sinking of Scharnhorst, 26 December | 236 |
4. | General Conclusions for 1943 | 244 |
XIV | Within the Mediterranean, June 1943-August 1944 | 249 |
1. | The Mediterranean Convoy System | 249 |
2. | U-boats "Swamped," July 1943-May 1944 | 252 |
3. | Air Attacks on Convoys, September-November 1943 | 261 |
4. | Intense Air-Surface Battles, April-August 1944 | 264 |
XV | Southern and Far Eastern Waters, 1943-1945 | 274 |
1. | Passage to Penang, February 1943-March 1944 | 274 |
2. | Escort Carriers off Cape Verdes and Madeira, March-April 1944 | 278 |
3. | Buckley's Battle; Loss of Block Island, May | 284 |
4. | The Capture of U-505, June 4, 1944 | 290 |
5. | Fourth Fleet Interlude, February-September | 293 |
6. | Caribbean Conclusion, March-July 1944 | 297 |
7. | South Atlantic and Indian Ocean, June 1944-May 1945 | 298 |
XVI | In Arctic Waters, 1944-1945 | 305 |
1. | Renewed German Activity, January 1944 | 305 |
2. | British CVEs on the North Russia Run, February-December 1944 | 307 |
3. | Concluding North Russia, February-May 1945 | 310 |
XVII | Snorkels in the Atlantic, March-December 1944 | 317 |
1. | Doenitz Springs the Snorkel | 317 |
2. | The U-boats and Overlord, June-August | 319 |
3. | Snorkel Nuisances, August-December | 325 |
XVIII | Snorkel Blitz in European Waters, December 1944-April 1945 | 330 |
1. | U-boats Help Battle of the Bulge | 330 |
2. | Snorkels in British Coastal Waters, February-April | 338 |
XIX | Victory in the Atlantic, February-May 1945 | 342 |
1. | Snorkels in the Eastern Sea Frontier, February-April | 342 |
2. | Teardrop vs. "Seewolf," March-May | 344 |
3. | Battle off Block Island, 5-6 May | 356 |
4. | Surrender and Conclusion | 358 |
Appendix I | Losses of Merchant Shipping, and Enemy Submarines | 365 |
1. | Monthly Losses of Allied and Neutral Merchant Vessels to Submarine Attack | 365 |
2. | U-Boats Built, Operating and Sunk Monthly | 366 |
3. | Monthly Losses of Allied and Neutral Vessels by All Causes, World-Wide | 367 |
4. | Ocean Areas of Heaviest Monthly Merchant Shipping Losses by Submarine Attack | 369 |
Appendix II | Sinkings of German, Italian and Japanese Submarines by U.S. Forces in Arctic, Atlantic and Mediterranean | 370 |
Appendix III | Mine Fields Laid by U-boats in Western Atlantic | 374 |
Appendix IV | Task Organization of U.S. Navy Escort Carrier Groups Operating in the Atlantic, 1943-1945 | 375 |
Appendix V | Composition of Convoy UGS-40 under Air Attack in the Mediterranean, 11 May 1944 | 381 |
Index | 383 |
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