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The outcome of the battle was a strategic victory for the Allies—the German tonnage war failed—but at great cost: 3,500 merchant ships and 175 warships were sunk in the Atlantic for the loss of 783 U-boats and 47 German surface warships, including 4 battleships (Bismarck, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Tirpitz), 9 cruisers, 7 raiders, and 27 ...
The Mid-Atlantic gap was an area outside the cover by land-based aircraft; those limits are shown with black arcs (map shows the gap in 1941). Blue dots show destroyed ships of the Allies. The Mid-Atlantic gap is a geographical term applied to an undefended area of the Atlantic Ocean during the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War.
The action of 4 April 1941 was a naval engagement fought during the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War.A German commerce raider, Thor (Schiff 10 to the Kriegsmarine, Raider E to the British), encountered the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Voltaire and sank her after a short engagement.
The battle was undoubtedly a success for the Germans. However, they had failed to interrupt the North Atlantic convoy route to any extent; 68 ships (two-thirds of those involved) made a safe and timely arrival, and the 38 ships of HX 229A, which had been detached at New York to cross separately, arrived unscathed.
Battle of the Atlantic – the name given to the conflict in the Atlantic Ocean between 1939 and 1945. see also Timeline of the Battle of the Atlantic; Battle of the Mediterranean; Battle of the Indian Ocean; Specific. 1940. First Battle of Narvik; Second Battle of Narvik; 1941. Battle of Cape Matapan; Battle of Pearl Harbor; 1942. Battle of ...
The American Theater [1] was a theater of operations during World War II including all continental American territory, and extending 200 miles (320 km) into the ocean.. Owing to North and South America's geographical separation from the central theaters of conflict (in Europe, the Mediterranean and Middle East, and the Pacific) the threat of an invasion of the continental U.S. or other areas ...
The following is a table of Allied shipping losses in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. ... To Die Gallantly: The Battle of the Atlantic, pp. 85, 86;
The Battle of the Atlantic by John Costello and Terry Hughes (1977, Collins, London) OCLC 464381083; Barone, João (2013) 1942: O Brasil e sua guerra quase desconhecida (1942: Brazil and its almost forgotten war) (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro, ISBN 8520933947; Donald A Bertke, Gordon Smith & Don Kinde.World War II Sea War, Vol 5.