Battle of the Atlantic

Okay, that might be something else we'll have to look into, flying boats.

But anyway, during World War II, it was a naval and air station providing anti-submarine warfare and bases in the Battle of the Atlantic.

All right, that one's location of RAF Ascension Island, Royal Air Force Station, a European Space Agency rocket tracking station.

Signals intelligence, so we saw all those antennas, right? And hosts one of four ground antennas that assist in the operation, get this, guys, all you flat earthers will love it, of the Global Positioning System Navigation System.

It was the summer of 1943, two years into the United States' involvement in World War II, and a bloody sea battle was raging between American destroyers and the famed U-boat submarines of the Nazis.

In the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, a newly commissioned ship called the USS Eldridge was being equipped with several large generators as part of a top-secret mission to win the Battle of the Atlantic once and for all.

The rumor aboard the ship was that the generators were designed to power a new kind of magnetic field that would make the warship invisible to enemy radar.

With the full crew on board, it was time to test the system.

It's not a huge amount, but it'll certainly help.

But if you want to really put a finger on it, a replay of the Atlantic War when the convoy system was in place and the losses there, I think it's an excellent idea to have our own resources.

Well done, the government.

OK, John, thank you very much indeed.

October 30th is an event where Aaron O'Toole and Ted Barris will be coming to speak about Camp 30.

Ted Barris wrote a book called The Battle of the Atlantic.

He's a noted he's an amazing storyteller and to see him on with Steve Paikin on TV, it's, it's amazing.

But Ted Barris wrote this book and includes a section about my dad, the merchant Navy guy.

The success of the two invasions is a tribute also to the ability of many men and women to maintain silence when a few careless words would have imperiled the lives of hundreds of thousands and would have jeopardized the whole vast undertakings.

These two great operations were made possible by success in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Without this success over German submarines, we could not have built up our invasion forces or air forces in Great Britain, nor could we have kept a steady stream of supplies flowing to them after they had landed in France.

The Nazis, however, may succeed in improving their submarines and their crews.

They have recently increased their U-boat activity.

The Battle of the Atlantic, like all campaigns in this war, demands eternal vigilance.

But the British, Canadian, and other Allied navies, together with our own, are constantly on the alert.

The tremendous operations in Western Europe have overshadowed in the public mind the less spectacular but vitally important Italian front.

This is the incredible story of Operation Creek, the last ride of the Calcutta Light Horse.

The Battle of the Atlantic, which raged from the very first day of World War II to the very last, has been covered extensively on this very channel.

But the desperate struggle between Allied shipping and German U-boats was not confined to the frigid waters of the North Atlantic.

U-boat operations ranged as far afield as the Indian Ocean, where the marauding submarines wreaked havoc on ships sailing in and out of british india and this deadliness only increased thanks to an unexpected helping hand in august 1939 the freighters arenfels brownfels and drachenfels of the german ddg hansa shipping line received a radio message warning them that germany would soon be at war with britain The ships immediately made their way to the nearest neutral harbour, Mor Mogao, in Goa, India.

Slow and unglamorous on paper, lethal in practice.

Atlantic operations, let us not forget the Battle of the Atlantic because the Catalina fought that one, too.

British Coastal Command flew PBYs throughout the war against the German U-boat fleet.

The aircraft's long endurance made it ideal for convoy escort and anti-submarine patrol.