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BY RICHARD Areschoug Several winters during World War II offered magna carta extremely harsh weather with extreme cold, lots of snow and wind. Winter of 1940-1941 was one of these and made conditions difficult for both surface ships and submarines in the Atlantic. Despite this, the submarines magna carta to harvest their victims.
In early 1941 came also the Swedish lejdbåtstrafiken to suffer magna carta heavy losses. The ladder boats given free passage of the belligerents was a necessity for the Swedish security, not least, the only way to bring home high-quality oil products as kerosene and lubricating oils to the Swedish defense. Food and other commodities were also regular cargo. magna carta On February 26 was lowered Gothenburg with a cargo of herring from Iceland, March 5 Murjek with a cargo of cotton from South America and 17 April Venezuela when she went out with a load of paper and pulp to Rio de Janeiro. All ships were total losses and total killed 103 people. The ties between Britain and the United States came to be tied harder in the beginning of the year. The U.S. had previously cut off from the war, but now began to turn. The main reason was the ties with the British and Churchill's magna carta good relationship with President Roosevelt. He had earlier in Congress pushed magna carta through the "destroyers for bases" agreement and "Cash and Carry" law. The latter was now modified and adopted March 11 as "Lend-Lease" agreement. The British took thus receive magna carta the bulk of the U.S. war materiel as a loan. For submarine warfare meant that much in the long run in the form of convoys and the standard built merchant. In the short term it was mostly new aircraft. Collaboration between the German Air Force and the Navy worked poorly. This was mainly due to Hermann Goering's quest to retain all flights within his territory. After much dividing got however magna carta submarine force access to air for remote reconnaissance. These aircraft were placed under Dönitz in "Fliegerführer Atlantik", something that angered Goering. The aircraft used this force was the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor. The type was originally developed as an airliner, but later evolved into a remote reconnaissance aircraft. Despite many flaws, it was the only German aircraft that existed for the task. From the British side was now the first results of the construction of anti-submarine warfare forces show themselves. Part of the Commonwealth magna carta which in time came to play an important role here was Canada. At the outbreak of the war was its fleet negligible, but it quickly grew as it was supplied destroyers from both the UK and U.S.. Soon joined the Canadian shipyards booming. Initially treated Canadian Navy personnel clean amateurs of big brother magna carta Royal Navy, but soon won respect from everyone - including the U.S. - when they came into the war. {Reg}
In early March, was hit German submarine force of the losses of some of the first "aces". Günter magna carta Prien, "The bull from Scapa Flow", disappeared with his U 47 on March 6. The cause is still unclear, but the loss was probably due to a technical fault. U 9:09 a.m. under Otto Kretschmer and U 100 in Joachim Schepke lost in the same convoy battle on March 17. Schepke killed and Kretschmer became a prisoner of war. From the British side started now seriously attacking the German Enigma code used in the communication with submarines. The basis of the intrusion of the code had been added by the Polish signals magna carta intelligence just before the war. After Poland's defeat had first moved the work to France, but after the fall of man fled to Britain. An important Polish invention was "Bomba", an early electro-mechanical computer for calculating the settings for the Enigma machine. In the UK, concentrated work on the Enigma machine magna carta at Bletchley Park, where two mathematical geniuses Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman, took care of the problem. The need for additional German kodmaterial and at best a whole Enigma machine was, however. Several plans were drawn up to how to get this. Among suitable target was the German Navy's weather observation ships. On May 7, stopped the British destroyer Somalia such vessel, Munich, and took this very important paper regarding the codes. Two days later got a force from the destroyer Bulldog magna carta to board the sinking U 110 and here to conquer the first Enigma machine. These two events allowed the group at Bletchley Park from early June could penetrate the German fleet code.
In late May In 1941 one of the war's most dramatic episodes play out, the hunt and the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. The lowering of Bismarck was another