{"id":91427,"date":"2025-01-04T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=91427"},"modified":"2024-09-10T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T01:39:08","slug":"winning-ww2s-most-important-battle-battle-of-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/01\/04\/winning-ww2s-most-important-battle-battle-of-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning WW2&#8217;s Most Important Battle &#8211; Battle of the Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h6j42UEx78k?si=hBHrsrPYDSkdkiO0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Historigraph<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 15 Aug 2024<\/p>\n<p>The Second World War featured many important land battles on a colossal scale. They involved hundreds of thousands of participants, ranged across hundreds of miles and inflicted the most terrible destruction. But none of them were as long-running, as vast or as crucial to allied victory as that fought at sea in the Atlantic, where for four years Allied navies and civilian sailors fought a life or death struggle against Germany&#8217;s U-boats. This is the story of how it was fought, and how it was won. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 &#8211; WW2&#8217;s most important battle<br \/>\n00:45 &#8211; The U-boat menace in the early years<br \/>\n08:53 &#8211; The massacre off the eastern seaboard<br \/>\n13:12 &#8211; American ship printer go brrrrrrrrr<br \/>\n19:31 &#8211; The Allies gain the upper hand<br \/>\n21:49 &#8211; Black May: the convoy battles of 1943<br \/>\n24:41 &#8211; The most important victory of WW2<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sources: <\/p>\n<p>Evan Mawdsley, <em>The War for the Seas<\/em><br \/>\nPhillips Payson O&#8217;Brien, <em>How the War was Won<\/em><br \/>\nMichael Gannon, <em>Black May<\/em><br \/>\nMichael Gannon, <em>Operation Drumbeat<\/em><br \/>\nStephen Roskill, <em>The War at Sea<\/em> (Vols 1-3)<br \/>\nNaval Staff History, <em>The Defeat of the Enemy Attack on Shipping, 1939-45<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Music Credits:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rynos Theme&#8221; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)<br \/>\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVhGS2s0SHNqWmFYeDU2WlFqYjNycExpN1pqQXxBQ3Jtc0tsb3VteFFKT3RreFFkdERUdXhMLVRQM3M4RmV5UVU1NUxKcU1TbE1EblFsREloWTk0eEVoZ3RHYldiNDF0OEU3cUNGYUZXc1VLTjh5RWEzaHdkeVhJQzBYSkJKdHJlcGo5d2xhbWR3eDRiWW1TTi1QWQ&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Flicenses%2Fby%2F4.0%2F&#038;v=h6j42UEx78k\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/b&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crypto&#8221; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)<br \/>\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVhGS2s0SHNqWmFYeDU2WlFqYjNycExpN1pqQXxBQ3Jtc0tsb3VteFFKT3RreFFkdERUdXhMLVRQM3M4RmV5UVU1NUxKcU1TbE1EblFsREloWTk0eEVoZ3RHYldiNDF0OEU3cUNGYUZXc1VLTjh5RWEzaHdkeVhJQzBYSkJKdHJlcGo5d2xhbWR3eDRiWW1TTi1QWQ&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Flicenses%2Fby%2F4.0%2F&#038;v=h6j42UEx78k\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/b&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stay the Course&#8221; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)<br \/>\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVhGS2s0SHNqWmFYeDU2WlFqYjNycExpN1pqQXxBQ3Jtc0tsb3VteFFKT3RreFFkdERUdXhMLVRQM3M4RmV5UVU1NUxKcU1TbE1EblFsREloWTk0eEVoZ3RHYldiNDF0OEU3cUNGYUZXc1VLTjh5RWEzaHdkeVhJQzBYSkJKdHJlcGo5d2xhbWR3eDRiWW1TTi1QWQ&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Flicenses%2Fby%2F4.0%2F&#038;v=h6j42UEx78k\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/b&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other music and SFX from Epidemic Sound<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historigraph Published 15 Aug 2024 The Second World War featured many important land battles on a colossal scale. They involved hundreds of thousands of participants, ranged across hundreds of miles and inflicted the most terrible destruction. But none of them were as long-running, as vast or as crucial to allied victory as that fought at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,1118,7,5,13,230],"tags":[145,1275,859,30,745,364],"class_list":["post-91427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-cancon","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-ww2","tag-airforce","tag-battleoftheatlantic","tag-manufacturing","tag-navy","tag-rcn","tag-submarine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nMD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91428,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91427\/revisions\/91428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}