Wolf Packs (The Third Reich)
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN: 0809469758
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
"Wolf Packs" is a volume in the Time-Life Third Reich series. Chronicles German submarine warfare during World War II; focusing on battles, tactics, and commanders.
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over nine hours, Henke and his crew disposed of eight merchantmen totaling 50,000 tons. The wolf packs would require all the cunning brought a fresh and valor of veterans such as Henke, because May the undecided campaign to dominate the sea. crisis in For Germany, the month began with high hopes of overcoming the strengthened Allied convoys. On May 1, Dbnitz had on station in the North Atlantic the lines. of most submarines ever Three convoys managed May 4, — sixty U-boats in four
leadership flair and a zest for combat, tempered by intelligence and an instinctive grasp of U-boat tactics. Mohr also had an irrepressible sense of humor. After torpedoing seven ships during one week in American waters in 1942, "The new-moon night is black as Off Hatteras, the tankers sink / While, sadly, Roosevelt counts the score: / Some 50,000 tons by ink. / — Mohr." Mohr's U-124 was attacked off Gibraltar 1943, and sank with on all itself April 3, hands. ffMI Heinrich
174; U-boats in, 60, commander of U-48, 182 Schultze, Otto: as navy adjutant, 16-17 Ships: aircraft-carrier support groups, 158, 162; Ark Royal, 38, 107, 110-111; Ark Royal attacked by U-39, 29; Ark Royal sunk by U-81, 110-111; Athenia sunk by U-30, 27, 28-29, 62, 181; Audacity sunk, 89; Rarham Radio equipment: in U-boats, 48 sunk by U-331, 112-113, Raeder, Erich: 12, 14, 34, 71, 85; and British declaration of war, 15; Donitz meets, 18; and Hitler, 13, 143; and invasion of 158-159;
