Название: Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War 1944-45
Автор: John Nichol, Tony Rennell
Издательство: Penguin
ISBN: 0141015047
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 496
Размер: 3,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Night after night, they swallowed their fears and flew long distances through packs of enemy fighters to drop the bombs that could destroy Hitler and bring about the end of the war. Tens of thousands of young men never came back, blown up or bailing out from burning aircraft to drop helplessley into enemy hands.

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.