The Burning Shore (40 page)

helplessness of,
105

information provided to,
102–105

military career of,
97–98

reinforcements needed by,
125–127

shortcomings concerns of,
99–100

on U-boats,
102

warning by,
182–183

Anglo-American military partnership,
54

Antiaircraft gunnery

damage from,
134–136

warship firepower of,
39

antisubmarine

aircraft capabilities of,
143

antisubmarine aircraft,
60

antisubmarine patrol aircraft,
148

Arcadia Conference,
51
,
54
,
105

Argentia,
101

Argo
,
108

Argonaut Conference,
195

Army Air Corps,
144
,
233

Army Air Forces,
4
,
97
,
167–168

Army Group North (German),
56

Arnold, Major General/Lieutenant General Henry H. “Hap,” USAAF,
144–145
,
167

Atlantic Beach,
242
,
248

Atlantic Conference,
42–43

Atlantic Fleet

ABC-1 Agreement and,
40–41

countermeasures of,
163

failure of,
115

first deaths in,
43

growth of,
37

operations of,
153–154

restructuring of,
99–101

shortcomings of,
99–100
,
153

staging of,
101–102

threat against,
41

U-boat countermeasures of,
158

Atlantic Fleet Support Force,
41

Atlantic Refining Company,
186

Atlantis
,
83

Augvald
,
93

Auxiliary Code,
83

Avalon Peninsula,
117

avgas,
72
,
167

Axis,
172

Axis Treaty,
46

B-17,
145
,
146

B-18 Bolo,
4
,
27
,
66
,
67
,
166

B-25 Mitchell,
27
,
145
,
248

B-26 Marauder,
27
,
145

Bahr, Oberleutnant zur See (Lieutenant) Karl-Heinrich,
216

Baku,
194

ballast tank,
6
,
7
,
9
,
110
,
218
,
220

Bangor,
145

Bankline Company,
130

Barksdale Field,
27

Baron Erskine
,
74
,
140

Baron Haig
,
74

Batten, Frank, Jr.,
184

battle cruiser,
41
,
53

Battle Force, US Navy,
97

Battle of Lake Erie,
123

Battle of Los Angeles,
136–137

Battle of Midway,
172
,
194

American victory at,
173

Battle of the Atlantic,
1
,
3–4
,
44
,
70
,
106
,
117–118
,
160

Allied Merchant Ships Code and,
82–83

false radio gambit of U-653,
78

gross tons lost during,
245

losses during,
247

time length of,
247

U-boat wolf packs and,
244–245

Batzies, Leutnant zur See (Lieutenant j.g.) Erwin,
59–60
,
175
,
223

Baubelehrung
,
32
,
235

Bay of Biscay,
140

B-Dienst,
78

B-Dienst telegram,
46

BdU daily war diary,
30
,
55

counterintelligence ploy of,
81–82

on Operation Drumbeat,
111–112

on U-boats,
57

BdU Headquarters,
164–165

BdU Operations,
78

BdU operations staff,
70
,
81
,
83
,
159

BdU War Diary,
57
,
78
,
111

BdU Zug,
161

Beacon Grange
,
31

Bellamy, Corporal George E., USAAF,
214–215
,
227
,
232
,
254

Benham
-class destroyer,
146

Berger, Ernst,
235

Bermuda,
101

Bernhard, Oberleutnant zur See (Lieutenant) Oskar,
236

Bidwell
,
151

Biscay,
55

Bismarck
,
42

Biuro Szyfrow,
88

Blackett, Paul M. S.,
148

Bleichrodt, Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenant Commander) Heinrich,
96

Bletchley Park,
88
,
124
,
246

Block Island Sound,
146

blockade-runner,
56
,
87
,
120

Blomquist, Eric Robert,
187–188

Bluefields
,
239

Boeing 314 seaplane,
195

Boeing B-17,
66

Boeing Stearman PT-13,
24

Boeing Stearman PT-17,
66

Bolo,
27
,
66
,
67
,
166

bombe,
88

Bomber Command and Fighter Command, RAF,
142–143

Bordeaux,
23
,
120

Boulton Paul gun turret,
166

Braue, Lieutenant j.g. Richard H., USN,
102–103

Bristol, Rear Admiral Arthur L., USN,
41

Bristol Channel,
51

British Freedom
,
207
,
212

British Home Fleet,
154

British Merchant Navy,
129

British U-boat Situation Reports,
83–84

Brooklyn Navy Yard,
108

Broussard, Corporal Presley L., USAAF,
214
,
224
,
232

Brunsbüttel,
29–30
,
35
,
60–61
,
64

Bruun-Evensen, Even A.,
206–207

BT-13 Valiant,
26

Bucket Brigade convoys,
158–159
,
163

Buoy 2CB,
181
,
189

Burke, Commander Richard L., USN,
232

C-46 Commando,
27

C-47 Skytrain,
27

Camp Blanding,
243

Camp Lejeune,
192

Camp Papago Park,
243

Canadian East Coast,
58
,
90