Contents

Cover

Dedication

Title Page

Foreword

List of Maps

List of Plates

The U-Boat Campaign Against the British Commonwealth and the United States

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Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Appendices

Appendix 1: Oceangoing U-boats Assigned to Combat: The Final Years: September 1942-April 1945

Appendix 2: U-boat Patrols to the North Atlantic: September 1942-April 1945

Appendix 3: Allied Cargo Convoy Sailings on the North Atlantic Run in the “Critical Period”: September 1942-May 1943.

Appendix 4: U-boat Patrols to the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean: September 1942-April 1945

Appendix 5: U-boat Patrols to the Americas: September 1942-April 1945

Appendix 6: U-boats Assigned to the Arctic Area: September 1942-April 1945

Appendix 7: U-boats Transferred to the Mediterranean Sea: September 1942-April 1944

Appendix 8: Huff Duff

Appendix 9: Principal North Atlantic Cargo Convoys Inbound to the British Isles September 1, 1942-December 3 1, 1944

Appendix 10: Allied Aircraft Deployed in ASW Roles in the North Atlantic Area (by Squadron, September-October 1942

Appendix 11: The Long- and Very-long-range Allied ASW Aircraft Situation in the North Atlantic (by Types and Squadrons, March 1943)

Appendix 12: Atlantic Force U-boats That Aborted Patrols: January-June 1943

Appendix 13: Allied Heavy Bomber Raids on U-boat Facilities: 1943-1944

Appendix 14: American Destroyer Escort (DE) Production: January I-July 1, 1943

Appendix 15: Special Oil and Troopship Convoys for Torch and the British Isles: 1943-1944

Appendix 16: The Top Twenty U-boat Skippers: 1939-1945

Appendix 17: The Top Renty U-boats: 1939-1945

Appendix 18: U-boats Scuttled or Dismantled at War's End

Appendix 19: U-boats Surrendered at War's End

Appendix 20: Allied and Neutral Ships and Tonnage Sunk by Cierman and Italian Submarines in World War 11: September I, 1942-May 8, 1945

Acknowledgments and Sources

Afterword

Index

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