Battle Of The Atlantic
By Sterling Swopes
Battle of the Atlantic
The battle of the Atlantic started in 1939 to 1945 to defeat Germany. This battle had U-boats and other types of machines like the aircraft airships. The United States was really helping the kingdom with importing special types of goods. In 1942 the Germans seen that they were running low on fuel and equipment in the British section.
Event Information
The Battle of The Atlantic Ocean
This battle started in 1939 and ended in 1945 this was the longest military war in the ocean. In this war they had all types of ships that was in the area of Atlantic ocean 875 ships total were sunk. That also means that a'lot of people died, a'lot of family's scared and worried. some family's never saw there dad,uncle,brother,ect again.
When?
Tuesday, Sep 5, 1939, 09:00 PM
Where?
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The Starting Point
The Starting point people were lost and not ready and unexpected to see where other ships were. It wasn't until someone on the radar pops up and they no what time it is immediately no what is about to happen so the navy get ready for the impact. The ships that were sunk did not discourage people from still fighting in the war. It made Americans fight harder which made Germany lose the War.
launching
The Navy sent grenades in the air. They noticed that alot ships were getting sunk by air forces. They shot down most of there air support and the Germans started running short on supply
Sunk Ships
When Germany sunk and American ships The survivers had to get on these things called U-boats. They used these when there ship has sunk then they can push there way back to head quarters.
Torpedos
In 1941 they had to put in the torpedos by hand. These were most definetly not the easiest thing to move around. So they had to move things around as a team. They would already have it set and ready to fire off and sink ships
Battle Of The Boats
In 1941 the Japanese attacks Pearl Harbor . This event shifted the way that Americans were going to do things . In 1942 Almost 500 ships were sinked, People had no mercy in this war It was straight violence which ended in the worse way but thing had to be done.
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