Authors: Ed Offley
helplessness of,
105
information provided to,
102–105
military career of,
97–98
reinforcements needed by,
125–127
shortcomings concerns of,
99–100
on U-boats,
102
warning by,
182–183
Anglo-American military partnership,
54
Antiaircraft gunnery
damage from,
134–136
warship firepower of,
39
antisubmarine
aircraft capabilities of,
143
antisubmarine aircraft,
60
antisubmarine patrol aircraft,
148
Arcadia Conference,
51
,
54
,
105
Argentia,
101
Argo
,
108
Argonaut Conference,
195
Army Air Corps,
144
,
233
Army Air Forces,
4
,
97
,
167–168
Army Group North (German),
56
Arnold, Major General/Lieutenant General Henry H. “Hap,” USAAF,
144–145
,
167
Atlantic Beach,
242
,
248
Atlantic Conference,
42–43
Atlantic Fleet
ABC-1 Agreement and,
40–41
countermeasures of,
163
failure of,
115
first deaths in,
43
growth of,
37
operations of,
153–154
restructuring of,
99–101
shortcomings of,
99–100
,
153
staging of,
101–102
threat against,
41
U-boat countermeasures of,
158
Atlantic Fleet Support Force,
41
Atlantic Refining Company,
186
Atlantis
,
83
Augvald
,
93
Auxiliary Code,
83
Avalon Peninsula,
117
avgas,
72
,
167
Axis,
172
Axis Treaty,
46
B-17,
145
,
146
B-18 Bolo,
4
,
27
,
66
,
67
,
166
B-25 Mitchell,
27
,
145
,
248
B-26 Marauder,
27
,
145
Bahr, Oberleutnant zur See (Lieutenant) Karl-Heinrich,
216
Baku,
194
ballast tank,
6
,
7
,
9
,
110
,
218
,
220
Bangor,
145
Bankline Company,
130
Barksdale Field,
27
Baron Erskine
,
74
,
140
Baron Haig
,
74
Batten, Frank, Jr.,
184
battle cruiser,
41
,
53
Battle Force, US Navy,
97
Battle of Lake Erie,
123
Battle of Los Angeles,
136–137
Battle of Midway,
172
,
194
American victory at,
173
Battle of the Atlantic,
1
,
3–4
,
44
,
70
,
106
,
117–118
,
160
Allied Merchant Ships Code and,
82–83
false radio gambit of U-653,
78
gross tons lost during,
245
losses during,
247
time length of,
247
U-boat wolf packs and,
244–245
Batzies, Leutnant zur See (Lieutenant j.g.) Erwin,
59–60
,
175
,
223
Baubelehrung
,
32
,
235
Bay of Biscay,
140
B-Dienst,
78
B-Dienst telegram,
46
BdU daily war diary,
30
,
55
counterintelligence ploy of,
81–82
on Operation Drumbeat,
111–112
on U-boats,
57
BdU Headquarters,
164–165
BdU Operations,
78
BdU operations staff,
70
,
81
,
83
,
159
BdU War Diary,
57
,
78
,
111
BdU Zug,
161
Beacon Grange
,
31
Bellamy, Corporal George E., USAAF,
214–215
,
227
,
232
,
254
Benham
-class destroyer,
146
Berger, Ernst,
235
Bermuda,
101
Bernhard, Oberleutnant zur See (Lieutenant) Oskar,
236
Bidwell
,
151
Biscay,
55
Bismarck
,
42
Biuro Szyfrow,
88
Blackett, Paul M. S.,
148
Bleichrodt, Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenant Commander) Heinrich,
96
Bletchley Park,
88
,
124
,
246
Block Island Sound,
146
blockade-runner,
56
,
87
,
120
Blomquist, Eric Robert,
187–188
Bluefields
,
239
Boeing 314 seaplane,
195
Boeing B-17,
66
Boeing Stearman PT-13,
24
Boeing Stearman PT-17,
66
Bolo,
27
,
66
,
67
,
166
bombe,
88
Bomber Command and Fighter Command, RAF,
142–143
Bordeaux,
23
,
120
Boulton Paul gun turret,
166
Braue, Lieutenant j.g. Richard H., USN,
102–103
Bristol, Rear Admiral Arthur L., USN,
41
Bristol Channel,
51
British Freedom
,
207
,
212
British Home Fleet,
154
British Merchant Navy,
129
British U-boat Situation Reports,
83–84
Brooklyn Navy Yard,
108
Broussard, Corporal Presley L., USAAF,
214
,
224
,
232
Brunsbüttel,
29–30
,
35
,
60–61
,
64
Bruun-Evensen, Even A.,
206–207
BT-13 Valiant,
26
Bucket Brigade convoys,
158–159
,
163
Buoy 2CB,
181
,
189
Burke, Commander Richard L., USN,
232
C-46 Commando,
27
C-47 Skytrain,
27
Camp Blanding,
243
Camp Lejeune,
192
Camp Papago Park,
243
Canadian East Coast,
58
,
90