Lest We Forget: Battle Of The Atlantic

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Battle of the Atlantic

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The Battle of the Atlantic was Canada’s longest military engagement of the Second World War, lasting from September 1939 to May 1945. This battle was bravely fought by the men and women of the Canadian Merchant Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Canadian Air Force. More than 4,600 courageous service men and women lost their lives at sea.

 

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Royal Navy too……………

The name “Battle of the Atlantic” was coined by Winston Churchill in February 1941.[9] It has been called the “longest, largest and most complex” naval battle in history.[10] The campaign started immediately after the European war began, during the so-called “Phoney War“, and lasted six years, until the German Surrender in May 1945. It involved thousands of ships in more than 100 convoy battles and perhaps 1,000 single-ship encounters, in a theatre covering millions of square miles of ocean. The situation changed constantly, with one side or the other gaining advantage, as participating countries surrendered, joined and even changed sides in the war, and as new weapons, tactics, counter-measures and equipment were developed by both sides. The Allies gradually gained the upper hand, overcoming German surface raiders by the end of 1942 and defeating the U-boats by mid-1943, though losses due to U-boats continued until war’s end.

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The Germans failed to stop the flow of strategic supplies to Britain. This failure resulted in the build-up of troops and supplies needed for the D-Day landings. The defeat of the U-boat was a necessary precursor for accumulation of Allied troops and supplies to ensure Germany’s defeat.

Victory was achieved at a huge cost: between 1939 and 1945, 3,500 Allied merchant ships (totalling 14.5 million gross tons) and 175 Allied warships were sunk and some 72,200 Allied naval and merchant seamen lost their lives.[1] The Germans lost 783 U-boats and approximately 30,000 sailors killed, three-quarters of Germany’s 40,000-man U-boat fleet.[2]

 


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6 thoughts on “Lest We Forget: Battle Of The Atlantic”

  1. WARSHIP WEDNESDAY, February 23, 2022-View this on WordPress.com AND other Social Media; in REGARDS to U.S. CONGRESS, AND To whom it may concern..STRIKING, into Non-Fictional Fact…A W.W.II/1941-1945 U.S. Battle of the Atlantic/1939-1945; Medal-Ribbon-Citation, whom NUMEROUS American Men-Heroes…United States Navy-United States Coast Guard-United States Marine Corp-United States Army -Air Force, United States Merchant Marine…SERVED …with Honourable Duty, THOUGH-was NOT AWARDED ANY CITATION-MEDAL-RIBBON, etc., concerning their SERVICE in The Longest and Most Decisive Campaign; CONCERNING…ALL of The Second World War, The Battle of the Atlantic. Yours Aye-Brian CANUCK Murza, W.W.II Naval Researcher-Published Author, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

    1. Thanks Phil. Wow, D2? I forgot about that. Not DMRS though as I still have bad memories of that place – Jabba the Hud (Romanow) in particular.

      John

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