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swamprat69er
03-03-13, 09:59 AM
I just found this piece about how close WW2 came to our home waters.

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/history/secondwar/battlegulf/intro
Jimbuna
03-03-13, 12:03 PM
Some info here:

http://www.uboat.net/articles/29.html

http://www.junobeach.org/e/2/can-eve-mob-gol-e.htm
swamprat69er
03-03-13, 12:32 PM
There has got to be a lot of iron at the bottom of the oceans, judging from this map.

http://www.junobeach.org/images/english/flash/ships_sunk.html
Jimbuna
03-03-13, 12:46 PM
During the war the U-boats alone sank about 2,779 ships for a total of 14.1 million tons GRT. This figure is roughly 70% of all allied shipping losses in all theatres of the war and to all hostile action.
Mork_417
03-05-13, 05:13 AM
Some info here:
http://www.junobeach.org/e/2/can-eve-mob-gol-e.htm

Very interesting site, Thanks for the Link! :up:

There has got to be a lot of iron at the bottom of the oceans, judging from this map.

I was thinking the very same thing. :hmmm:
Synthfg
03-05-13, 08:01 AM
Remind me to take 1944 off in my current campaign

Seriously tho interesting to watch the merchant sinkings move across the map and back, and how similar the 39 and 45 maps are in distribution
swamprat69er
03-05-13, 04:29 PM
Seriously tho interesting to watch the merchant sinkings move across the map and back, and how similar the 39 and 45 maps are in distribution

I thought that, too. Look at the submarine sinkings, too.
Jimbuna
03-05-13, 04:51 PM
Very interesting site, Thanks for the Link! :up:

I was thinking the very same thing. :hmmm:

No problem :sunny:
u crank
03-05-13, 05:27 PM
Interesting thread swamprat69er. Great link Jim.

Clicking back and forth between 1941 and 1942 is amazing. The war came to North America very quickly. I can look out the back window of the shop that I work in, New Glasgow Rd. P.E.I. and see the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Hard to believe that the war was that close.

It's covered with ice right now but I'm pretty sure I saw a Type IX out there last summer. :O:
swamprat69er
03-05-13, 06:03 PM
Nice strategy on Donitz's part. Stop the convoys where they originate. Starve the allies and Britain and cut off the supplies and they would have won. Too bad the U.S and Canada got smart real quick. Dad was stationed at Mont-Jolie for a bit, too. Doing the same thing as Baggottville. Gun plumber/armourer. At Baggottville he taught.
captgeo
03-05-13, 08:44 PM
great post swamp:up:,nice to see you man:cool: