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The Naval Campaign between the Third Reich and the Allied powers started on day one of the war and continued nonstop through to VE-Day - apart from RAF Bomber and Coastal Commands efforts - it was the longest non stop campaign of the entire war. The goals of either side were starkly clear; on one side to continue receiving the men and materials necessary to fight the war and the food and produce to enable the population to survive the deprivations of war - on the other side the goal was to cut those sea lanes through the use of surface warships, submarines and aircraft. Almost from day one of the war at sea the Kriegsmarine's U-Bootwaffe (submarine fleet) was involved in this mercantile war, attacking and destroying the merchant fleet that the UK grew to depended upon for its very survival, operating in oceans ranging from the storm tossed North Atlantic or the Arctic to the much calmer Indian and Pacific oceans. At its peak the U-Boat campaign saw attacks taking place against the sea lanes from as far away as Australia and South Africa, with U-Boats based throughout the world from Occupied France and Norway through to Japanese occupied Singapore.To protect the U-Bootwaffe from the

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Author

Philip Kaplan

Publisher

Pen and Sword; Pen & Sword Books

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526705440

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Western, Military History