Operation Alacrity
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Operation Alacrity was the code name for a possible Allied seizure of the Azores during World War II. It never took place because Portugal agreed to an Allied request for use of air bases. The islands
The 1st U.S. Aeronautical company in Ponta Delgada (21 January 1918); one of the first completely equipped American aviation units to serve overseas in World War I
A Vickers Wellington Mk XIV, No. 172 Squadron RAF undergoing servicing at Lajes airfield during 1944
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
Operation Alacrity
…World War II. It never took place because Portugal agreed to an Allied request for use of air bases. The islands were of enormous strategic value in the defeat of the German U-boats. Portugal, too weak to defend the Azores or its large colonial empire, or even its homeland, tried to stay neutral in the war. Dictator António de…
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