Big Guns in the Atlantic
Big Guns in the Atlantic In the early months and years of World War II, it was Germany's cruisers and battleships that most ravaged the Atlantic Convoys. To reach Britain's convoy routes in the North…
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Big Guns in the Atlantic
In the early months and years of World War II, it was Germany's cruisers and battleships that most ravaged the Atlantic Convoys. To reach Britain's convoy routes in the North Atlantic, these boats had to pass around the top of the British Isles - a long and dangerous voyage to their hunting grounds. This is the history of those raids, and how the success of 1941's Operation Berlin led directly to the Kriegsmarine sending into the Atlantic its greatest battleship - the mighty, ill-fated Bismarck.At the outbreak of World War II the German Kriegsmarine still had a relatively small U-boat arm.
So, during late 1939 the armored cruiser Deutschland, and later the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were used as commerce raiders, to strike at Germany's larger surface warships were much better suited to this kind of long-range operation.