Coastal Command S Air War Against the German U-Boats

by Norman Franks and Norman L.R. Franks

This book summarizes 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783831839
• ISBN13: 9781783831838
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.