Air Power Versus U-Boats - Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace In The European Theater [Illustrated Edition]
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More than fifty years after World War II, America’s major air power contribution to the war in Europe-in efforts such as Big Week, Regensburg, and Patton’s dash across Europe-live on in the memories of airmen and students of air power. Never before had air forces performed so many roles in so many different types of operations. Air power proved to be extremely flexible: wartime missions included maintaining air superiority, controlling the air space over the battlefield; strategic bombardment, destroying the enemy’s industrial and logistical network; air-ground support, attacking targets on the battlefield; and military airlift, delivering war materiel to distant bases.
Perhaps one of the least known but significant roles of the Army Air Forces (AAF) was in antisubmarine warfare, particularly in the European-African-Middle Eastern theater. From the coasts of Greenland, Europe, and Africa to the mid-Atlantic, AAF aircraft hunted German U-boats that sank thousands of British and American transport ships early in the war. These missions supplemented the efforts of the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force Coastal Command, and the U.S. Navy, and helped those sea forces to wrest control of the sea lanes from German submarines.
A. Timothy Warnock
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Air Power Versus U-Boats - Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace In The European Theater [Illustrated Edition] - A. Timothy Warnock
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The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II
Air Power versus U-boats — Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace in the European Theater
A. Timothy Warnock
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Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
Air Power versus U-boats — Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace in the European Theater 5
German U-boats Threaten Allied Shipping: December 1941-June 1942 5
The AAF Response: Tactics, Technology, and Organization 7
The Battle of the Atlantic: July 1942-May 1943 11
Hunting in the Bay of Biscay: November 1942-October 1943 14
Guarding the Straits of Gibraltar: March-October 1943 19
Bombing German Submarine Pens: October 1942-April 1945 22
Defeating the U-boat Menace 26
SUGGESTED READINGS 28
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 29
Air Power versus U-boats — Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace in the European Theater
More than fifty years after World War II, America’s major air power contribution to the war in Europe—in efforts such as Big Week, Regensburg, and Patton’s dash across Europe—live on in the memories of airmen and students of air power. Never before had air forces performed so many roles in so many different types of operations. Air power proved to be extremely flexible: wartime missions included maintaining air superiority, controlling the air space over the battlefield; strategic bombardment, destroying the enemy’s industrial and logistical network; air-ground support, attacking targets on the battlefield; and military airlift,