Get Your Hands On Air Power Versus U-BoatsConfronting Hitlers Submarine Menace In The European Theater [Illustrated Edition] (The U.S. Army Air Forces In World War II) Conceived By A. Timothy Warnock Offered As Digital Edition

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More than fifty years after World War II, Americas major air power contribution to the war in Europein efforts such as Big Week, Regensburg, and Pattons dash across Europelive on in the memories of airmen and students of air power.
Never before had air forces performed so many roles in so many different types of operations, Air power proved to be extremely flexible: wartime missions included maintaining air superiority, controlling the air space over the battlefield strategic bombardment, destroying the enemys industrial and logistical network airground support, attacking targets on the battlefield and military airlift,

delivering war materiel to distant bases.


Perhaps one of the least known but significant roles of the Army Air Forces AAF was in antisubmarine warfare, particularly in the EuropeanAfricanMiddle Eastern theater, From the coasts of Greenland, Europe, and Africa to the midAtlantic, AAF aircraft hunted German Uboats that sank thousands of British and American transport ships early in the war.
These missions supplemented the efforts of the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force Coastal Command, and the U, S. Navy, and helped those sea forces to wrest control of the sea lanes from German submarines, .