Although known as battle in fact it was the longest campaign during the World War II (from 3 September 1939 till 8 May 1945). Allies used the naval convoys to transport goods, equipment and troops from North America to Britain and Russia to help those countries keep up the fight against Germany. Hitler on the other hand did not have enough warships to face Royal Navy, so chose to use U-Boats to attack those convoys and thus cut off European Allies from supplies.
Battle of Atlantic was first of the technology races during World War 2 - at the beginning British Navy was unable to prevent the losses of the merchant ships, but the invention of ASDIC (active sonar mounted on destroyers) and adding escort ships to the convoys gave them the upper hand. Germans were improving the technology of their submarines, later chose the tactics of not single sub attacks, but using several U-Boats at the same time (units called Wolfpacks), which made it much harder for the escort ships to stop them.
With time airplanes became important factor in that battle - Germans had very limited air units capable of attacking the convoys, on the other hand Allies improved their use of long-range planes (such as PBY Catalina) to attack U-Boats surfaced and often even submerged.
While during first months of the war U-Boats were serious threat to the very existence of Great Britain together with the improvement of technology they soon became almost obsolete and their effectiveness dropped significantly.
American merchant navy crew takes part in the large convoy to Murmansk and faces German submarines and planes.
During World War 2 survivors from ship sunk by U-boat climb aboard the sole lifeboat. Among them is German sailor from the submarine, now they have to work together to find a way to survive.
Young cadets join the pride of German navy, the submarines, to get the chance to be the attacking side for once.
American destroyer detects the German U-Boot. Each of the ships has experienced captain that knows all the tricks - the battle of the wits begins.
Royal Navy faces a greatest challenge so far - new German battleship Bismarck is about to leave Baltic Sea and serve as raider on Atlantic. Captain Shepard has to find a way to sink the colossus before it will attack the Allied convoys.
The life on board of U-Boot during the patrol of U-96 on Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea is far from what Nazi propaganda tries to tell German nation.
Victor ’Pug’ Henry is appointed naval attaché to American embassy in Berlin in 1939. Even though US intelligence is convinced the open war in Europe is unlikely Pug sends an alarming report to Washington suggesting that Germans are fully prepared to attack.
Americans send their submarine to intercept damaged U-571 and the Enigma machine that, in their minds, will change the face of the war.
Cryptanalyst Tom Jericho returns to Bletchley Park only to find that his ex-girlfriend has gone missing and Germans has just changed the cypher in Enigma machines.
American submarine picks up survivors from lifeboat in the middle of Atlantic Ocean and strange thing begin to happen.
Incident in the middle of Atlantic Ocean brings together the unlikely companions - crews of German and American submarines.
1990 Amiga game that was not first stab at the submarine simulation, but was first to simulate the actually wolfpacks of U-Boats and not only single submarine.
Inspired by the classic war movie Das Boot was an attempt to transfer it to the world of computer games, but the attempt was hardly a fully successful despite some interesting elements being featured for the first time in a subsim.
Submarine simulator in which you take command of German U-Boat during World War 2 in a series of missions.
Third Silent Hunter game, again with German U-Boat as the main character, but this time complete freedom in selecting targets.
Fifth Silent Hunter game with interesting features, like option to walk through whole boat and speak with the crew.
Turn based strategy / simulation of World War 2 naval warfare during Battle of the Atlantic.
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