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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 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 ...
April 1940 May 1940 French supply convoys GREYBACK Dieppe, Seine-Maritime to Newhaven, East Sussex: ferry service GS Grimsby to Southend-on-Sea: 1940 1940 HM Holyhead to Milford Haven: HN Bergen to Methil, Fife: 1939 1940 HXA Western Approaches to English Channel: 1939 1945 English channel section of same numbered HX convoys – no sailings ...
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.
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)
But they still hope, and in January 1945, these were answered as much of the Philippines Islands were liberated and its people cheered the Americans. Their liberation became bloody as they fought their way in Manila, but still they cheered. 21. March 29, 1953 "Full Fathom Five" US submarines, 1941–1945
1940 The Daughter of the Green Pirate: Italy Enrico Guazzoni: Doris Duranti, Fosco Giachetti: Based on the sequel novels of The Black Corsair: The Sea Hawk: United States Michael Curtiz: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains: Set in the Elizabethan era, but unlike the novel The Sea Hawk it is set in the Caribbean Sea 1942 The Black Swan ...
1939–1945 Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945) 1939 1 September Danzig Bay – German Stuka dive bombers destroy much of the Polish Navy; 1–3 September Battle of Hel – Surviving Polish warships engage German invasion fleet. All Polish ships are sunk or captured.