Battle of the Atlantic
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The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. A
Officers on the bridge of an escorting British destroyer stand watch for enemy submarines, October 1941
A lookout of a convoy escort, posing his binoculars on a depth charge thrower with which depth charges were launched to the sides of the escort
German submarine pens in Lorient, Brittany
Grand Admiral Erich Raeder with Otto Kretschmer (left), August 1940
Dudley Pound
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound was a British senior officer of the Royal Navy. He served in the First World War as a battleship commander, taking part in the Battle of Jut
Battle of the Atlantic
…participants: Norway France Poland Netherlands Belgium Greece Australia New Zealand Newfoundland India South Africa Germany Italy Commanders and leaders Dudley Pound # Andrew Cunningham Martin Dunbar-Nasmith Percy Noble Max Horton Frederick Bowhill Philip de la Ferté John Slessor Royal E. Ingersoll Jonas H. Ingram…
Pound in 1939
The battlecruiser HMS Repulse, which Pound commanded in the early 1920s
Pound on board the RMS Queen Mary sailing to the United States
Admiral Pound (standing, far right) at the Atlantic Conference in 1941