Lost in the Greenland Gap: A Day by Day Account of a WWII Convoy Crossing During the Battle of the Atlantic

By B.L. Smith

The great storms of winter already were raging when Convoy SC-32 set sail from New York harbor on December 15, 1942, laden with supplies for beleaguered Britain. They were a portent of what was to become the fiercest winter in the meteorological annals of the North Atlantic. Even so, the sea was the lesser menace. In an all-out effort to stem the tide of supplies flowing from America to Great Britain and Russia, the U-boats of the Kriegsmarine were massed in the Greenland Gap - that expanse of the mid North Atlantic so named because it was beyond the range of land-based Allied planes. It was in the Greenland Gap where the submarines awaited the trans-Atlantic convoys; secure in the knowledge there was nothing to fear from the skies above. Lost in the Greenland Gap is a day-by-day account of the crossing by Convoy SC-32 during World War II at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic. Under unrelenting assault by hurricane force winds and German U-boats, the complete disintegration of the convoy threatened. Welcome aboard...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1537065734
• ISBN13: 9781537065731
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"