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    Air Power Versus U-Boats - Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace In The European Theater [Illustrated Edition]
    Air Power Versus U-Boats - Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace In The European Theater [Illustrated Edition]
    Air Power Versus U-Boats - Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace In The European Theater [Illustrated Edition]
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    Air Power Versus U-Boats - Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace In The European Theater [Illustrated Edition]

    By A. Timothy Warnock

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    Includes over 14 photos and maps
    More than fifty years after World War II, America’s major air power contribution to the war in Europe-in efforts such as Big Week, Regensburg, and Patton’s dash across Europe-live on in the memories of airmen and students of air power. Never before had air forces performed so many roles in so many different types of operations. Air power proved to be extremely flexible: wartime missions included maintaining air superiority, controlling the air space over the battlefield; strategic bombardment, destroying the enemy’s industrial and logistical network; air-ground support, attacking targets on the battlefield; and military airlift, delivering war materiel to distant bases.
    Perhaps one of the least known but significant roles of the Army Air Forces (AAF) was in antisubmarine warfare, particularly in the European-African-Middle Eastern theater. From the coasts of Greenland, Europe, and Africa to the mid-Atlantic, AAF aircraft hunted German U-boats that sank thousands of British and American transport ships early in the war. These missions supplemented the efforts of the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force Coastal Command, and the U.S. Navy, and helped those sea forces to wrest control of the sea lanes from German submarines.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTannenberg Publishing
    Release dateAug 15, 2014
    ISBN9781782898900
    Air Power Versus U-Boats - Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace In The European Theater [Illustrated Edition]

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      Air Power Versus U-Boats - Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace In The European Theater [Illustrated Edition] - A. Timothy Warnock

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      Text originally published in 1999 under the same title.

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      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II

      Air Power versus U-boats — Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace in the European Theater

      A. Timothy Warnock

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

      Air Power versus U-boats — Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace in the European Theater 5

      German U-boats Threaten Allied Shipping: December 1941-June 1942 5

      The AAF Response: Tactics, Technology, and Organization 7

      The Battle of the Atlantic: July 1942-May 1943 11

      Hunting in the Bay of Biscay: November 1942-October 1943 14

      Guarding the Straits of Gibraltar: March-October 1943 19

      Bombing German Submarine Pens: October 1942-April 1945 22

      Defeating the U-boat Menace 26

      SUGGESTED READINGS 28

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 29

      Air Power versus U-boats — Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace in the European Theater

      More than fifty years after World War II, America’s major air power contribution to the war in Europe—in efforts such as Big Week, Regensburg, and Patton’s dash across Europe—live on in the memories of airmen and students of air power. Never before had air forces performed so many roles in so many different types of operations. Air power proved to be extremely flexible: wartime missions included maintaining air superiority, controlling the air space over the battlefield; strategic bombardment, destroying the enemy’s industrial and logistical network; air-ground support, attacking targets on the battlefield; and military airlift,

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