AXIS SUBMARINE BLOCKADE FANS FARTHER OUT
TO CUT ACROSS ALUED GLOBAL SHIPPING LANES
THE ATLANTIC AREA
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Ui World War I tha Allies throttled Germany
by cutting her off from the Atlantic—only after
Germany had nearly throttled England by un
restricted submarine warfare.
In World War II, England again cut Germany
off, but not as effectively as before. With Prance
and the lowlands and the Norwegian coast in her
hands, Germany could get submarines and eve*
blockade runners to sea.
The submarine warfare she has waged first
against England and then against the United States
has been even more ruthless, better planned, better
based and better implemented than in the last war.
Submarines with ranges of as much as 12,000
miles have coursed the Atlantic, dogged convoys,
haunted sea lane junctions and rendezvous. Along
with airplanes, they have made control of the
Atlantic a three dimensional metier.
While the biggest body of water—and the
Atlantic is nearly three times as big as South and
North America together—can be controlled by
effective control of its entrances and its shores,
the Allies have yet to control all shores and
entrances as they did 25 years ago.
Instead, with the airplane, improved convoy
technique and devious new routes they have sought
to keep a jump ahead of the foe.
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