Coastal Command's Air War Against the German U-Boats
This book summarises the story of how RAF Coastal Command overcame the German U-boat danger during the Second World War and how the escalation of the U-boat war promoted the development of anti-submarine warfare, leading to victory over this menace in the Atlantic.At the start of the war, RAF Coastal Command had virtually no real chance of either finding or sinking Germany's submarines, but within a short period of time, new methods of detecting and delivering deadly ordnance with which to sink this underwater threat were dreamt up and implemented. It took the men of Coastal Command long hours patrolling over an often hostile sea, in all type…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4738-4111-6
- EAN: 9781473841116
- Produktnummer: 22568014
- Verlag: Pen and Sword
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 152 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 120'798 KB
Über den Autor
Norman Franks is a respected historian and author. Previous titles for Pen and Sword include In The Footsteps of the Red Baron (co-authored with Mike O'Connor), The Fighting Cocks, RAF Fighter Pilots Over Burma, Dogfight, The Fallen Few of the Battle of Britain (with Nigel McCrery) and Dowdings Eagles. Over the course of his career, Franks has published some of the most compelling works on First World War fighter aviation, being one of the world's leading authorities on the subject. He lives in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex.
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