Monday, February 13, 2012

The Wolf Packs Gather: Mayhem in the Western Approaches 1940, Bernard Edwards.

The Wolf Packs Gather: Mayhem in the Western Approaches 1940, Bernard Edwards.

A study of the fate of four convoys hit very hard by the German U-boat wolf packs in the autumn of 1940. Forty-eight merchant ships were lost, hundreds of trained merchant seamen were lost and hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo sent to the bottom of the Atlantic, threatening Britain's ability to stay in the war.
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