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Battle of the Atlantic
Part of the Second World War
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Officers on the bridge of an escorting British destroyer stand watch for enemy submarines, October 1941
DateSeptember 3, 1939 – May 8, 1945
(5years, 8months and 5days)
Location
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
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United Kingdom
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Canada
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United States[a]
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Brazil
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Germany

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Italy
[d]
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Vichy France[e]
Commanders and leaders
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Dudley Pound
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Andrew Cunningham
👁 United Kingdom
Martin Dunbar-Nasmith

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Percy Noble
👁 United Kingdom
Max Horton
👁 United Kingdom
Frederick Bowhill
👁 United Kingdom
Philip de la Ferté
👁 United Kingdom
John Slessor
👁 Canada
Leonard W. Murray
👁 United States
Royal E. Ingersoll
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Jonas H. Ingram
👁 Nazi Germany
Erich Raeder
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Karl Dönitz
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Günther Lütjens
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Otto Schniewind
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Alfred Saalwächter
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Wilhelm Marschall
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Theodor Krancke
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Martin Harlinghausen
👁 Fascist Italy (1922–1943)
Angelo Parona
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Romolo Polacchini
Casualties and losses
36,200 sailors killed
36,000 merchant seamen killed
3,500 merchant vessels
175 warships
741 RAF Coastal Command Aircraft lost in anti-submarine sorties
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~30,000 U-boat sailors killed
783 submarines lost
47 other warships lost
👁 Fascist Italy (1922–1943)
~500 killed
17 submarines lost

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II to defeat the Germans in 1945. The British Royal Navy repeated the blockade of Germany of World War II, and Germany repeated its attempt to blockade Britain by using U-boats. The German Navy also tried to use surface warships in the Atlantic Ocean, but lost them in various battles.

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