The World At War Wolf Pack U Boats In The Atlantic World Map To Scale

Over 40000 pages on the officers the boats technology and the allied efforts to counter the u boat threat.

Ww1 cartoon world time vs gmt. The u boat war in world war two kriegsmarine 1939 1945 and world war one kaiserliche marine 1914 1918 and the allied efforts to counter the threat. In world war ii. The purpose was to demoralize american citizens and put a stranglehold on supplies to great britain.

Groups of u boats disposed in long lines would rally when one of them by radio signaled a sighting and overwhelm the convoy by weight of numbers. The wolfpack was a convoy attack tactic employed in the second world warit was used principally by the u boats of the kriegsmarine during the battle of the atlantic and by the submarines of the united states navy in the war in the pacificthe idea of a co ordinated submarine attack on convoys had been proposed during the first world war but had no success. The atlantic and the mediterranean 194041 individual operation to one of wolf pack attacks.

Despite being implemented only after the fall of france the origins of this idea first dated back to the first world war. Silent marauders slipping away and a few hundred thousand tonnes of shipping food and war material sliding into the cold depths of the atlantic. During the first world war the british had defeated the u boats by introducing the convoy system.