My grandad served in the Navy and survived torpedo-ing twice and the horrors of days in the sea waiting to be rescued whilst watching friends being machined gunned by u-boats. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)
Secondly, Rice is wrong; the United States and her ships were attacked on numerous occasions by Nazi u-boats prior to the U.S. formally entering the war. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Many of those long passages related to both u-boats and to SIGINT, arewrong. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Many of those long passages related to both u-boats and to SIGINT, are wrong. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Imagine for example, the Second Battle for the Atlantic 1939 - 1943 if the Germans could have provided even air equality, like alone superiority, over the Atlantic in support of her u-boats, as the US can and would in a future conflict for her submarine fleet. ❋ Unknown (2009)
To even that score, they sank 50 German u-boats, alone or in consort with other ships and aircraft. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Plan six from out-of-your-fucking-mind included the Japanese fleet traveling all through the Mediterranean to the Northern Sea, joining the Kriegsmarine there and sailing for an Iceland invasion while the Royal Navy was being kept busy by Nazi u-boats. ❋ Jesus Diaz (2011)
German u-boats were given cover in Swedish ports, and the Swedish king regularly dined with visiting Reichskomm Mitzy: Although the "official" Swedish stance in WW II was one VickySinclair 11 minutes ago 7:32 PM I did not know that. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)
Winston Churchill, despite Canada's major role in supplying food, raw materials, munitions and money to the hard-pressed British economy, training airmen for the Commonwealth, guarding the western half of the North Atlantic against German u-boats, and providing combat troops for the invasions of Italy, ❋ QK (2010)
Although focused on life and service in the amazingly primitive u-boats of the age, the book puts this within the framework of the overall naval war between Austria-Hungary, with slight aid from Germany, and the combined resources of Italy, France, and Britain. ❋ Unknown (2010)
How did u-boats carry such a long lasting, reliable system (I know they recharged every night using the diesel generator)? ❋ Unknown (2010)
During World War I, 20 Royal Navy "Q-Ships," disguised merchant cruisers intended to destroy enemy submarines by looking like easy targets, were lost to German u-boats, while accounting for only 10 of the enemy. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A collision with an under water object is still a possibility & the area in which she sank is the final resting place of the highest concentration of sunk WW2 u-boats as well as many merchant vessels who used to regularly founder in the Bay which is the second stormiest sea region of the Atlantic. ❋ Unknown (2008)
For instance, after the sinking of the Bismarck the British decided to sink 5 of the 7 resupply ships in the Atlantic, so that u-boats and surface raiders couldn’t use them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The British weren’t able to crack the 3 rotor Naval Enigma until they were able to capture a significant number of keys and rotors from u-boats and German weather ships in the Atlantic. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He was fortunate that he did not get sent into the Battle of the Bulge, but that’s only because his convoy was struck by u-boats crossing the English Channel on Dec. 24, 1944, and one of the 2 troop ships, the S.S. Leopoldville, sank, killing over 800 U.S. Army Infantry soldiers. ❋ Unknown (2006)
