Название: Donitz's Last Gamble: The Inshore U-Boat Campaign 1944-45
Автор: Lawrence Paterson
Издательство: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1844157148
Год: 2008
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 208
Размер: 26,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
After the June 1944 D-Day landings D'nitz withdrew his U-boat wolf-packs from the Atlantic convoy war and sent them into coastal waters, where they could harass the massive shipping movements necessary to supply the Allied armies advancing across Europe. Caught unawares by this change of strategy, the Allied anti-submarine forces were ill-prepared for the novel challenges of inshore warfare. It proved surprisingly difficult to locate U-boats that could lie silently on the seabed, and the shallow waters meant less than ideal conditions for sonar propagation.