U-Boats Against Canada: German Submarines in Canadian WatersThe U-boats constituted a serious threat to North American security and a major challenge to coastal and convoy defence. Hadley reveals the military and political impact on Canada of in-shore submarine warfare and vibrantly documents the successful German strategy of deploying daring long-range solo sorties to pin down the enemy close to home. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Portents and Preparations | 21 |
Operation Drumbeat | 52 |
1942 | 82 |
The Battle of the St Lawrence | 112 |
Escape | 168 |
JanuaryJune 1944 | 193 |
After Normandy | 224 |
UBoat Christmas | 257 |
Black Flags | 272 |
Epilogue | 302 |
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aircraft Allied antisubmarine asdic Atlantic attack BA-MA Battle Belle Isle boat British C-in-C CNA Cabot Strait Canada Canadian naval Canadian waters Cap Chat Cape Race captain Clayoquot coast coastal command conning tower convoy corvettes crew December defence depth charges destroyer DHIST Diary dive Dobratz Eastern Air Command enemy explosion Fairmiles fired forces Gaspé German Naval Gulf Halifax Herald harbour Hartwig HMCS HMCS Clayoquot Hornbostel hydrophone inshore Janowski January Kapitänleutnant later LCdr miles minesweepers mission Montreal Naval Staff navigational Navy Nazi Newfoundland North Nova Scotia November October Officer operations Ottawa Journal patrol Paukenschlag periscope port Quebec radar radio RCAF RCMP RCNVR reported route Sable Island Sambro lightship sank schnorkel ships shore sighted signal sinking southeast St John's St Lawrence station submarine submerged sunk surface survivors Sydney tactical target Thurmann torpedo vessels Vogelsang weather zone