Shadow over the Atlantic - The Luftwaffe and the U-boats: 1943-45

German U-boats were the scourge of Allied merchant and military shipping in the Atlantic during World War II, threatening to isolate and then starve the UK out of the War. As Germany''s war against the Allied convoys intensified in late 1943, German Admiral Karl Donitz called upon the Luftwaffe to provide a long-range spotting and shadowing unit to act as ''eyes'' for his U-boats. Equipped with big, four-engined Junkers Ju 290s fitted out with advanced search radar and other maritime ''ELINT'' (electronic intelligence) devices, Fernaufklarungsgruppe (FAGr) 5 ''Atlantik'' undertook a distant, isolated campaign far out into the Atlantic and thousands of miles away from its home base in western France. The information generated and reported back to Donitz''s headquarters was vital to the efforts of the U-boats, and FAGr 5''s ''shadowing'' missions were assigned priority in terms of skilled crews, supplies and equipment.This book tells for the first time the fascinating story of the formation and operations of FAGr 5 ''Atlantik'', drawing on never-before-published historical records of the unit that accounted for the reporting and destruction of thousands of tons of Allied shipping.>

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• Authors: Nick Beale, Consultant and Senior Lecturerin Child Ne Forsyth, Robert Forsyth, Forsyth Robert
• Assisted by: Jim Laurier (Illustration), Jim (Illustrator) Laurier (Illustration), Laurier Jim (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781472820457
• ISBN: 978-1-4728-2045-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; military history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / Aviation, Military vehicles, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Warfare & defence, Second World War, General and world history, Air forces and warfare, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Naval forces and warfare, Military aircraft