The Atlantic Battle Won

by Morison, Samuel Eliot

• ISBN13: 9780785813118
• ISBN10: 078581311X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Book Sales

Summary

Volume X is the second in Morison's history to deal with the Battle of the Atlantic. It concludes the account begun in Volume I of "that war of groping and drowning, of science and seamanship", the battle against the German U-Boats for control of the supply routes.

Author Biography

Samuel Eliot Morison, Professor Emeritus of American History at Harvard, retired from the Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral and died in 1976 in his 89th year

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Abbreviations	xxix
Introduction, September 1939-April 1943	3	(9)
Tenth Fleet, March-September 1943	12	(20)
American and British Antisubmarine Commands	12	(9)
Tenth Fleet Emerges, April-May	21	(5)
The Navy-Air Force ``Horse Trade,'' August-September	26	(6)
Notes on the Navy-Air Force Controversy	29	(3)
New Antisubmarine Ships and Aircraft	32	(15)
The Destroyer Escorts	32	(5)
The Escort Carriers	37	(5)
Antisubmarine Aircraft	42	(5)
New Training and Technical Developments	47	(8)
The ``Antisubmarine University''	47	(5)
Technical Developments	52	(3)
The German Underwater Fleet, 1943-1945	55	(10)
Hitler, Raeder and Doenitz	55	(5)
German Submarine Construction	60	(5)
Note on Italian Submarines	64	(1)
Northern Transatlantic Convoys, April-May 1943	65	(20)
The Ordeal of ONS-5	65	(11)
Debut of the Escort Carrier Group	76	(9)
Ushant to Finisterre, 1943	85	(23)
Coastal Command and Army Air Force	85	(4)
The Bay Offensive, March-June	89	(4)
``Madcats'' and B-24s in the Big Slaughter, 20 July-2 August	93	(6)
PB4Ys in the Bay Offensive, August-December	99	(9)
The Central Atlantic and Azores, May-August 1943	108	(25)
CVEs, Supporting Convoys and on the Loose, May-June	108	(8)
The Azores Happy Hunting Ground, July-August	116	(13)
Finisterre to Cape Juby, July-August	129	(4)
North Atlantic Crossings, September-November 1943	133	(20)
Troop and Tanker Convoys to Britain	133	(2)
The Zaunkonig Blitz on Convoy ON-202	135	(11)
The Blitz Fizzles Out, October-November	146	(7)
The Central Atlantic Grind, October-December 1943	153	(25)
Central Atlantic Convoys	153	(6)
Card and Core Score Four, 3-20 October	159	(3)
Borie's Last Battle, 1-2 November	162	(6)
Bogue Gets Four More, November-December	168	(3)
Card Scores Again, but Loses Leary, 17-25 December	171	(7)
East Coast and Caribbean, April-December 1943	178	(30)
Eastern Sea Frontier ``Nuisances,'' April-July	178	(6)
Mining Offensive, June-October	184	(4)
Caribbean Blitz, July-August	188	(10)
Panama Run-around, October-December	198	(10)
South Atlantic, May 1943-January 1944	208	(21)
Fourth Fleet	208	(2)
Nuisances and Precursors, May-June	210	(5)
July Blitz off Brazil	215	(8)
Air and Patrol Battles around Ascension, September-December	223	(6)
In Arctic Waters, May-December 1943	229	(20)
High Jinks in High Latitudes	229	(4)
North Russia Run Reopened, November-December	233	(3)
The Sinking of Scharnhorst, 26 December	236	(8)
General Conclusions for 1943	244	(5)
Within the Mediterranean, June 1943-August 1944	249	(25)
The Mediterranean Convoy System	249	(3)
U-boats ``Swamped,'' July 1943-May 1944	252	(9)
Air Attacks on Convoys, September-November 1943	261	(3)
Intense Air-Surface Battles, April-August 1944	264	(10)
Southern and Far Eastern Waters, 1943-1945	274	(31)
Passage to Penang, February 1943-March 1944	274	(4)
Escort Carriers off Cape Verdes and Madeira, March-April 1944	278	(6)
Buckley's Battle; Loss of Block Island, May	284	(6)
The Capture of U-505, June 4, 1944	290	(3)
Fourth Fleet Interlude, February-September	293	(4)
Caribbean Conclusion, March-July 1944	297	(1)
South Atlantic and Indian Ocean, June 1944-May 1945	298	(7)
In Arctic Waters, 1944-1945	305	(12)
Renewed German Activity, January 1944	305	(2)
British CVEs on the North Russia Run, February-December 1944	307	(3)
Concluding North Russia, February-May 1945	310	(7)
Snorkels in the Atlantic, March-December 1944	317	(13)
Doenitz Springs the Snorkel	317	(2)
The U-boats and Overlord, June-August	319	(6)
Snorkel Nuisances, August-December	325	(5)
Snorkel Blitz in European Waters, December 1944-April 1945	330	(12)
U-boats Help Battle of the Bulge	330	(8)
Snorkels in British Coastal Waters, February-April	338	(4)
Victory in the Atlantic, February-May 1945	342	(23)
Snorkels in the Eastern Sea Frontier, February-April	342	(2)
Teardrop vs. ``Seewolf,'' March-May	344	(12)
Battle off Block Island, 5-6 May	356	(2)
Surrender and Conclusion	358	(7)
Appendix I Losses of Merchant Shipping, and Enemy Submarines	365	(5)
1. Monthly Losses of Allied and Neutral Merchant Vessels to Submarine Attack	365	(1)
2. U-Boats Built, Operating and Sunk Monthly	366	(1)
3. Monthly Losses of Allied and Neutral Vessels by All Causes, World-Wide	367	(2)
4. Ocean Areas of Heaviest Monthly Merchant Shipping Losses by Submarine Attack	369	(1)
Appendix II Sinkings of German, Italian and Japanese Submarines by U.S. Forces in Arctic, Atlantic and Mediterranean	370	(4)
Appendix III Mine Fields Laid by U-boats in Western Atlantic	374	(1)
Appendix IV Task Organization of U.S. Navy Escort Carrier Groups Operating in the Atlantic, 1943-1945	375	(6)
Appendix V Composition of Convoy UGS-40 under Air Attack in the Mediterranean, 11 May 1944	381	(2)
Index	383