Confronting Technological and Tactical Change: Allied Antisubmarine Warfare in the Last Year of the Battle of the Atlantic

• Main Author: McLean, Douglas M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons 2018
• Subjects: winter 1994 review; 194 review; technology; allies; antisubmarine; warfare; battle of the atlantic; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol47/iss1/7; https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3316&context=nwc-review

The recall of German U-Boat Wolfpacks from the central North Atlantic at the end of May 1943 ended the most costly phase of the shipping war for the Allies. Never again would the U-boats inflict dangerously high shipping losses. The naval war remained bitter, however, for the U-boats refused to give up, turning instead to new technology and new tactics. Right to the end of the war, they continued to present a plausible threat, one that caused concern in high Allied circles.