US Destroyers vs German U-Boats

The United States Navy played a pivotal role in the Battle of the Atlantic. This absorbing study examines the battles fought by the US Navy against Germany's U-boats during World War II. This book examines the most significant and dramatic duels between the primary escort warships of the United States Navy and the U-boats of Hitler's Kriegsmarine between December 1941 and May 1945. Although the Battle of the Atlantic lasted several years, its most critical phase began once the United States entered World War II. By December 1941, the British had mastered the U-boat threat in the Eastern Atlantic, only to see the front abruptly expand to regions the US Navy would patrol, chiefly the Atlantic Seaboard. Unless the US Navy overcame the U-boat threat, the Allies would lose the Battle of the Atlantic. The Battle of the Atlantic was made up of thousands of individual duels: aircraft against U-boats, aircraft against aircraft, aircraft against ships--but most crucially, ships against U-boats.