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Closing The Greenland-Iceland Atlantic Air-Gap: 1939 To 1943, James F. Boland
Closing The Greenland-Iceland Atlantic Air-Gap: 1939 To 1943, James F. Boland
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The Battle of the Atlantic during World War II centered on the submarine guerre de course of the German Kriegsmarine, aimed at severing the maritime bridge between Great Britain and North America. From 1939 until mid-1943 all of the belligerents involved struggled to balance the scarce resources they could marshal for the fight. For the Allies the limited number and quality of escort ships and patrol aircraft they could muster reflected this scarcity. During the summer of 1943 the Allies achieved their turning point in the battle when a complex mix of factors coalesced. Prominent among those factors was …