Donitz's Last Gamble: The Inshore U-Boat Campaign 1944-45КНИГИ » ВОЕННАЯ ИСТОРИЯ
Название: Donitz's Last Gamble: The Inshore U-Boat Campaign 1944-45 Автор: Lawrence Paterson Издательство: Seaforth Publishing ISBN: 1844157148 Год: 2008 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 208 Размер: 26,1 МБ Язык: Английский
After the June 1944 D-Day landings D'nitz withdrew his U-boat wolf-packs from the Atlantic convoy war and sent them into coastal waters, where they could harass the massive shipping movements necessary to supply the Allied armies advancing across Europe. Caught unawares by this change of strategy, the Allied anti-submarine forces were ill-prepared for the novel challenges of inshore warfare. It proved surprisingly difficult to locate U-boats that could lie silently on the seabed, and the shallow waters meant less than ideal conditions for sonar propagation.