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NameThe Battle of the Atlantic, The Official Account of the Fight Against The U-Boats, 1939 - 1945
CategoryAction at Sea
DepartmentCentral Office Of Information
Issued Fornone
SO.Code70-495
Published Oct/1946
Pages104
FormP4
Size14.5 x 22
ARJ055.0/A
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Price£3.49
DescriptionFor the space of sixty-eight months the Battle of the Atlantic raged with ruthless but varying intensity. It started with the sinking of the Athenia west of Ireland less than twelve hours after the outbreak of war on September 3rd, 1939, ended with Grand-Admiral Dönitz's signal of May 4th, 1945, ordering his U-boats to cease hostilities and return to base, followed four days later by the unconditional surrender of Germany. The narrative that follows does not pretend to give a full and detailed account of the Battle of the Atlantic, it is merely the abbreviated story of a few of the more important highlights in the several phases of a ruthless and protracted campaign which, but for the grace of God, might well have brought about not merely the defeat of Britain and the disruption of the British Empire, but the eventual Axis domination of the world.
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Admiralty Alexander, Albert Victor, 1st Earl of Hillsborough Acoustic torpedo
Anti-U-boat Warfare Committee Birnie, Harry Charles Admiral
Blohm and Voss Bowhill, Sir Frederick William After
Bomber Command Broome, John Egerton Aileron
British Empire Brownrigg, Sir Henry John Studholme Air Force Squadron
Fleet Air Arm Bulloch, Terence Malcolm Aircraft carrier
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG Burnett, Philip Whitworth Amatol
German Army Churchill, Winston Amidships
Germany Naval High Command (Oberkommando der Marine) Cunningham, Andrew Browne, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope Anchor
Home Fleet Douglas, William Sholto, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside Anti-aircraft warfare
Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG Dönitz, Karl Anti-submarine warfare
Maritime Royal Artillery Dunbar-Nasmith, Sir Martin Eric Armed Merchant Cruiser
Merchant Navy Egerton, Wion de Malpas Armstrong Whitworth Whitley
Nazi Party Fegen, Edward Stephen Fogarty ASDIC (Sonar)
No. 10 Squadron RAF Ferté, Sir Philip Bennet Joubert de la Avro Lancaster
No. 120 Squadron RAF Fitzmaurice, Raymond Baffle Nets
No. 162 Squadron RCAF Förster, Hugo Battlecruiser
No. 172 Squadron RAF Goebbels, Joseph Battleship
No. 200 Squadron RAF Gretton, Sir Peter William Blackburn Skua
No. 206 Squadron RAF Hart, Raymond Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
No. 210 Squadron RAF Hitler, Adolf Bomb bay
No. 224 Squadron RAF Horton, Sir Max Kennedy Bomber
No. 228 Squadron RAF Hryniewiecki, Stanislaw Boom
No. 269 Squadron RAF Jenisch, Hans Bow
No. 311 Czech Bomber Squadron RAF Kelly, William Henry Bridge
No. 330 Norwegian Squadron RAF King, Ernest Joseph Bristol Beaufighter
No. 500 (County of Kent) Squadron RAAF Kretschmer, Otto Capital Ship
No. 502 (Ulster) Squadron RAAF Lemp, Fritz-Julius Captain-class frigate
No. 53 Squadron RAF Levasseur, Jean Chief Petty Officer
No. 621 Squadron RAF Noble, Sir Percy Lockhart Harnam Cockpit
No. 812 Naval Air Squadron Portal, Charles Frederick Algernon, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford Combined Operations
No. 813 Naval Air Squadron Pound, Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Commodore
No. VPB-103 Squadron US Navy Prien, Günther Company
No. VPB-84 Squadron US Navy Rahmlow, Hans-Joachim Conn
Polish Navy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Consolidated B-24 Liberator
RAF Coastal Command Schepke, Joachim Consolidated PBY Catalina
RAF Fighter Command Slessor, Sir John Cotesworth Convoy rescue ship
Royal Air Force Stephenson, Sir Gilbert Owen Corvette
Royal Australian Air Force Thompson, James Herbert Cruiser
Royal Canadian Air Force Walker, Frederic John Cruiser Submarine
Royal Canadian Navy Wanklyn, Malcolm David Cutter
Royal Marines de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito
Royal Naval Reserve Depot Ship
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Depth Charge
Royal Norwegian Navy Destroyer
The Royal Navy Dinghy
Trinity House Distinguished Flying Cross
United Nations Distinguished Service Order
United States Army Air Force Elevator
United States Navy Escort Carrier
US Eight Air Force Escort Destroyer
Fairey Swordfish
Fighter
Fighter Catapult Ship
Flag officer
Flare
Fleet Carrier
Flight Lieutenant
Flotilla
Flying officer
Flying-boats
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor
Fore
Frigate
Grumman F4F Wildcat (Martlet)
Gunboat
Gunners
Handley Page Halifax
Handley Page HP.52 Hampden
Hawker Hurricane
Heavy Cruiser
Hedgehog Anti-Submarine Weapon
Henschel Hs 293 Air-to-Ship Glider Bomb
His Majesty’s Canadian Ship
His Majesty’s Indian Ship
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Naval Captain
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QF 6-pounder Gun
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S O S
Salvoe
Schnellboot/E-Boat
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