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  2. Battle of the Atlantic - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the Atlantic has been called the "longest, largest, and most complex" naval battle in history. [15] The campaign started immediately after the European war began, during the so-called " Phoney War ", and lasted more than five years, until the German surrender in May 1945.

  3. File:The battle of the Atlantic 1941 map.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: The battle of the Atlantic, Mid-March to December 1941. In the latter part of April 1941, sweeps and searches replaced close escort. In May 1941 these extends 350 miles from Iceland and Northern Ireland. Operations from West African bases began on 24 March 1941. Hudsons and Catalinas operated from Gibraltar up to 250 miles.

  4. Action of 4 April 1941 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Mid-Atlantic gap - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Convoys HX 229/SC 122 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Timeline of the Battle of the Atlantic - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline for the Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945) in World War II. Officers on the bridge of a destroyer, escorting a large convoy of ships keep a sharp look out for attacking enemy submarines during the Battle of the Atlantic.

  8. Second Happy Time - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Convoy ONS 5 - Wikipedia

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    The North Atlantic battle surrounding it in May 1943 is regarded as the turning point of the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II. The battle ebbed and flowed over a period of a week, and involved more than 50 Allied ships and their escorts, and over 30 U-boats. It saw heavy losses on both sides.