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The Air Ferry Routes of WWII, including North Atlantic Route, South Atlantic Route and South Pacific Route. Although many air route surveys of the North Atlantic had been made in the 1930s, by the outbreak of World War II in Europe, civilian trans-Atlantic air service was just becoming a reality. It was soon suspended in favor of military ...
military ferry service DS River Clyde to Reykjavík: military ferry service EC Southend-on-Sea to Oban via Firth of Forth: 1941 1941 90 temporary substitution for EN convoys EN Methil, Fife to Oban via Loch Ewe: 1940 1945 597 temporarily replaced by EC convoys during 1941 FD Faroe Islands to River Clyde: military ferry FN River Thames to Firth ...
Pages in category "North Atlantic convoys of World War II" The following 99 pages are in this category, out of 99 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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RAF Ferry Command was the secretive Royal Air Force command formed on 20 July 1941 to ferry urgently needed aircraft from their place of manufacture in the United States and Canada, to the front line operational units in Britain, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East during the Second World War.
The Torpedo Alley, or Torpedo Junction, off North Carolina, is one of the graveyards of the Atlantic Ocean, named for the high number of attacks on Allied shipping by German U-boats in World War II. Almost 400 ships were sunk, mostly during the Second Happy Time in 1942, and over 5,000 people were killed, many of whom were civilians and ...
In December 1943, the Naval Air Ferry Command was established under NATS to take over the mission previously provided by the Aircraft Delivery Units. The mission of the Ferry Command was to ferry aircraft from the factories to the fleet. The Command's headquarters were placed at NAS New York (Floyd Bennett Field) as well as the first squadron ...
In short, Dönitz' Central Atlantic campaign of 1943 did not do much better than his North Atlantic campaign. Overall, during June through August in all waters of the Atlantic and Pacific theaters excluding the Mediterranean, U-boats sank about 58 Allied merchant ships but lost 74 U-boats in return. [ 113 ]