Stalking the U-boat
Subtitle: USAAF offensive antisubmarine operations in World War II
By: Max Schoenfeld.
Series: Smithsonian history of aviation series
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.; Antisubmarine aircraft -- United States.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- Submarine.
Description: Stalking the U-Boat recounts the vital but untold story of the U.S. Army Air Forces' antisubmarine operations against German U-boats during the crisis of the Battle of the Atlantic in late 1942 and 1943. During this period, the 479th and 480th USAAF Antisubmarine Groups, deployed to England and North Africa, worked with the Royal Air Force to stop German Admiral Doenitz's raiders before they could prey on Allied commerce and supply routes in the shipping corridors of the North Atlantic.

Although the Americans scored some notable successes against U-boats, the Luftwaffe would become by mid-1943 a major enemy contesting the air over the Bay of Biscay and off the coast of Portugal. By the end of 1943, the U.S. Navy assumed sole American responsibility for antisubmarine warfare, but not before USAAF planes and men had made a distinctive contribution to the battle at sea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-225) and index.