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Essay on World War2 Battle in the Atlantic
The report is about the historic event that occurred almost seventy years ago during the Second World War which is also regarded as the most deadly battle in the history of this world. It is an almost impossible task to re affirm the primacy of the individual into the formless mass that represents our collective awareness of the Battle of the Atlantic. The six year battle should be better understood as a series of campaigns against, and in defense of, Allied merchant shipping, falsely constructed as The Battle of the Atlantic by Churchill eighteen months after the war at sea had begun.
It was a tactical battle that could have cost the Allies victory, but individual sailors would have little knowledge of the decisions being made at Cabinet level to bring the Allies to success. Operational Research teams, scientific geniuses working to invent new weapons, and the dockyard workers creating the means to win the Battle, as much as the men at sea.The awareness of the Battle of the Atlantic is also one missing in individual stories. After the brief, early phase of the Battle, in which individual U boats targeted independent merchant ships, and which allowed the alliance to create media heroes, and the Allies to create icons of the victims, the fighting of the Battle slipped into a fundamental anonymity.
The advent of the Rudeltaktik meant that U boats were sent out as packs, and, while convoys grew ever larger, groups of anti submarine vessels helped to underline the unidentified nature of this battle. One considered the battle was going to be bloody, but one had the feeling that we had been pretty good on the sea for many, many years, and somehow we'd get through. There were very many bodies lying about here that were all in completely blackened clothes, faces, everything.......
