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The Battle of the Caribbean refers to a naval campaign waged during World War II that was part of the Battle of the Atlantic, from 1941 to 1945. [3] German U-boats and Italian submarines attempted to disrupt the Allied supply of oil and other material. They sank shipping in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and attacked coastal targets ...
So Naval Base Trinidad became a key to keeping Panama Canal, Venezuela oil and the Caribbean open. The US Navy and US Army landed on Trinidad on September 2, 1940. Much of Naval Base Trinidad was built by private contractors in 1941 and in 1942 expanded by the Seabees of Naval Construction Battalions. Naval Base Trinidad also was a training ...
The Second Happy Time (German: Zweite glückliche Zeit; officially Operation Paukenschlag ("Operation Drumbeat"), and also known among German submarine commanders as the "American Shooting Season" [1]) was a phase in the Battle of the Atlantic during which Axis submarines attacked merchant shipping and Allied naval vessels along the east coast of North America.
Convoy HX 79 Attacked by a U-boat Wolfpack in October 1940. Twelve ships were lost, which, with the attack on Convoy SC 7 on the same day, made 19 October and the night of 19/20 October 1940 the worst period for shipping losses of the Battle of the Atlantic. [8] Convoy HX 84 Attacked on 5 November 1940 by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer.
Churchill's speech lasted nearly fifty minutes, in which he first stated "Almost a year has passed since the war began, and it is natural for us, I think, to pause on our journey at this milestone and survey the dark, wide field" [9] going on to say that, so far, there had been many fewer casualties than at the same point in the First World War, stating that the war was not a "prodigious ...
A U-boat shells a merchant ship which has remained afloat after being torpedoed. The early phase of the Battle of the Atlantic during which German Navy U-boats enjoyed significant success against the British Royal Navy and its Allies was referred to by U-boat crews as "the Happy Time" ("Die Glückliche Zeit"), [1] and later the First Happy Time, after a second successful period was encountered.
Artisan with USS Antelope (IX-109) and LST-120 in the dock at Espiritu Santo in January 1945 [14] Naval Advance Base Espiritu Santo at Espiritu Santo was the first large advance base built in the Pacific. Closed 1946 [15] [16] Majuro Submarine Base at Majuro Atoll - Harbor, Sub base, Fleet recreational center, two airfields (1940–1945)
1945 1,744 FP [2] Brest via British Isles to Norway April 1940 May 1940 French and Polish troop convoys FS Firth of Forth to River Thames: 1939 1945 1,840 FS [3] Brest via British Isles to Norway April 1940 May 1940 French supply convoys GREYBACK Dieppe, Seine-Maritime to Newhaven, East Sussex: ferry service GS Grimsby to Southend-on-Sea: 1940 ...