What is "antisubmarine"

Usage examples of "antisubmarine".

American production schedules had been upset in April 1942 to give top priority to landing and beaching craft for the cross-Channel operation that was canceled, and again in January 1943 schedules were upset to give top priority to ships for antisubmarine warfare.

The Royal Navy was not provided with mines to protect British harbors or with nearly enough ships for escort-of-convoy and antisubmarine work.

These were so fruitful in acquiring information about antisubmarine and other aspects of the war that, on the advice of CNO.

Greenland became a base for weather stations and for airfields, both important in the antisubmarine campaign.

In antisubmarine warfare, air search proved so valuable for locating and destroying U-boats that every effort was made to extend and enlarge the coverage.

In the spring, when the nights became shorter and the ineffectiveness of our antisubmarine warfare had been demonstrated, the U-boats became bolder and attacked in broad daylight, even surfaced.

The question has often been asked why the Navy was so unprovided with these indispensable small craft for antisubmarine warfare.

But by 1 April 1942 the antisubmarine patrol had been built up to 84 Army and 86 Navy planes at 19 bases between Bangor, Maine, and Jacksonville.

The Organization of Antisubmarine Warfare Having described the havoc wrought by the U-boats during the first six months of the war, we may now relate some of the principle countermeasures adopted, which bore fruit in the latter half of the year and in 1943.

Until Tenth Fleet was organized in May 1943, Admiral Ingersoll directed antisubmarine warfare.

Answers to these and a thousand other questions on antisubmarine warfare could not be left to mere trial and error, or the Battle of Atlantic might be lost before the right answer was found.

McDaniel was a lean, thin-lipped officer whose eyes burned with hatred of the enemy and all his works, and whose heart glowed with devotion to the Navy, especially the antisubmarine part of it.

Air Power, Auxiliaries and Amateurs The Army Air Force, which controlled almost the entire supply of United States military land-based planes in 1941, did not expect to include antisubmarine warfare among its duties.

When British experience showed the value of large land-based bombers in antisubmarine warfare, the Army modified this agreement.

The Navy badly wanted four-engined land-based bombers for antisubmarine work, and the Army responded to the best of its ability.