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Sighted Sub, Sank Same - The United States Navy's Air Campaign Against the U-Boat (Hardcover)
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Sighted Sub, Sank Same - The United States Navy's Air Campaign Against the U-Boat (Hardcover)
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Sighted Sub, Sank Same examines the United States Naval air
campaign against German U-boats prowling for allied merchant
shipping traversing the waters of the Atlantic, Caribbean, and
Mediterranean; an economic war waged to cut the lifeline of food
and armaments sailing across the Atlantic from North America. This
battle of the Atlantic evolved into a far-ranging conflict beyond
the North Atlantic and the eastern seaboard of the United States.
It covered the frigid waters off Iceland down to the warm waters of
Florida, through the Caribbean Sea, across the ocean to the Bay of
Biscay, the Mediterranean Sea, down to Africa, and across the South
Atlantic to Brazil's southern tip. Nazi Germany's efforts to deny
supplies from reaching Europe came at a high price, losing 783
U-boats and approximately 30,000 men between 1939 and 1945 with
land and carrier-based naval air units sinking 83 German submarines
of the 159 sunk by American aircraft. German allies saw their
submarines targeted as well in the Atlantic with Imperial Japanese
submarine I-52 and the Italian Archimede falling victim to American
naval aircraft armed with depth bombs or acoustic homing torpedoes.
This story of the United States Navy's use of air power to hunt
down and destroy German submarines unfolds in dramatic detail in
Sighted Sub, Sank Same. The book contains over 200 colour and black
and white photographs allowing for a visual imagery of the campaign
while personal interviews, interrogation reports, personal
correspondence, and after-action reports weave a fascinating
history about the naval air campaign in the Atlantic, Caribbean,
and Mediterranean Theaters during World War II.
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