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At the height of The Battle of the Atlantic, half of the Allied convoy escorts on the main trade routes were Canadian, but history has largely ignores their contribution and their bitter sacrifices of their struggle against U-boat attacks in 1942 and 1943.
In North Atlantic Run, noted military historian…
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North Atlantic Run was the first hard assessment of the Royal Canadian Navy’s campaign in the North Atlantic shepherding supply convoys to Britain.
Milner’s understanding of the naval war and Canadian naval policy is unsurpassed. His descriptions of Canada’s corvettes and destroyers going to sea with hastily trained crews and often inferior technology help us realize just how hard the men’s tasks were in the face of experienced U-boat crews.
The navy was stretched very thinly, and it is sobering that many convoys under Canadian protection suffered grievous losses in the desperate years 1942-43 when compared to those escorted primarily…
From Serge's list on The best books about Canada’s Second World War - that aren’t memoirs.
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