Examples Of Imagery In The Us Boat Wars By Hoyt

The Atlantic was stained with blood and littered with the remnants of thousands of ships and sailors lost. It seemed this would end up being the break that the allies needed to win the seemingly never-ending war. However, it did not come without losses. There were many moments where the fear of defeat plagued the minds of the Allies. At many points, the Nazis felt comfortablty in control. Thousands of allies were lost, and the naval forces of the allied countries damaged. So what changed? As Winston Churchill predicted, the Germans’ greatest threat to Britain was not that they were 509 miles from one another, not the missiles from the air, and not invasion, but that the Germans’ strategy and naval power was unrivaled by any British force. A

In the fall of 1940, Gunther Prien, a commander of the German Navy, directed a U-Boat near the North of Mainland Ireland. “On the night of September 7 the convoy had reached a point about a hundred miles northeast of Malin Head. The weather was overcast, the wind force 5, the swell heavy, visibility was three miles and there was no moon.” (65) This vivid imagery perfectly captures the backdrop of the fighting and details the “calm before the storm”. Another example of this is when Hoyt was describing the same conflict near Ireland: “She moved to attack and when she was 400 yards from the contact a dark shape appeared and then disappeared in a swirl of foam at 300 yards off.” (65) Hoyt uses this to build suspense, and empasize the importance of each moment of the wars when they would otherwise seem repetitive. This shows the true nature of U-Boat fighting, that for years on end, battles like this occurred often. There was constant tension for those on merchant or naval ships. For much of the conflict getting position for an attack was easy for the Germans, and good conditions gave the Germans confidence they would win battles and eventually the

The Battle of the Atlantic, and other U-Boat related battles are crucial moments in World War II. Many people aren’t even aware that they happened or the impact they had. Education over World War II, including the reasons for the outcome is incredibly important. This book serves as a detailed account of the events of the wars and the nature of the fighting. The victory in the Battle of the Atlantic is one of America’s greatest contributions to World War II and possibly the most influential to the Allied victory. Most importantly, thousands of lives were lost over the duration of the conflict and many people alive today had connections to the victims. Education over these wars gives recognition to the individual contribution from each of the