Название: Black May: The Epic Story of the Allies' Defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943
Автор: Michael Gannon
Издательство: Harper
ISBN: 0060178191
Год: 1998
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 492
Размер: 4,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
In May 1943, Allied sea and air forces won a stunning, dramatic, and vital victory over the largest and most powerful submarine force ever sent to sea, sinking forty-one German U-boats and damaging thirty-seven others.
It was the forty-fifth month of World War II, and by the end of May the Germans were forced to acknowledge defeat and recall almost all of their remaining U-boats from the major traffic lanes of the North Atlantic. At U-Boat Headquarters in Berlin, despondent naval officers spoke of \"Black May.\" It was a defeat from which the German U-boat fleet never recovered.