Frank Curry's The Battle Of The Atlantic

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This primary source document is a compilation of Frank Curry`s diary entries, which he wrote while aboard a Corvette ship which travelled across the Atlantic ocean. Curry was part of the Canadian Navy and spent from 1940 to 1945 sailing from Canada to Great Britain. During his time served he witnessed the horrors that ships experienced, he then recorded them in his diary. Frank Curry`s diary entries from his time aboard a merchant ship in the Atlantic Ocean truly display what Canadian Navy members experienced during the war. The battle of the Atlantic is not often looked at the same as ground battles in the war such as D-Day, primary sources like this are some of the only accurate depictions of the war in the ocean. While it is documented that