Ep.129: Coastal Command Chapter 6 – The Adversaries

Welcome to our Coastal Command series. This is Chapter 6 – The Adversaries.

In this chapter we look at the adversaries for RAF Coastal Command.

Understanding the U boats and their armament, we talk to Mark Lardas, author of Battle of the Atlantic 1939–41 – RAF Coastal Command’s Hardest Fight Against The U-Boats from Osprey publishing. Mark talks us through the different U Boat types and their specifications in an interesting view of the Coastal Command adversary!

Surrender of the German submarine U-889 (c) Colourised by Mark @CanadianColour

We then take a look at how Admiral Dönitz called upon the Luftwaffe to provide a long-range spotting and shadowing unit to act as ‘eyes’ for his U-boats. Robert Forsyth talks us through how they used their Junkers Ju 290s far out into the Atlantic to hunt Allied shipping from his book ‘Shadow over the Atlantic – The Luftwaffe and the U-Boats: 1943–45’ (Published by Osprey Publishing).

Recorded October 2021

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Mark Lardas

• Website: http://www.marklardas.com/about-me/
• Books: https://ospreypublishing.com/mark-lardas
• Battle of the Atlantic 1939–41 – RAF Coastal Command’s Hardest Fight Against The U-Boats https://ospreypublishing.com/battle-of-the-atlantic-1939-41

Robert Forsyth

• Website: https://www.chevronpublishing.co.uk/index.html
• Osprey Publishing: https://ospreypublishing.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=robert+forsyth
• Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/RobertForsythbugle/
• Shadow over the Atlantic – The Luftwaffe and the U-Boats: 1943–45 https://ospreypublishing.com/shadow-over-the-atlantic

Other Useful Links

• German WWII Submarine Walkthrough & Tour- The U995 – Type VIIC/41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbblBA4oqTY
• UBoat.Net https://uboat.net/
o “On this site you will find all the German U-boats of both World Wars, their commanding officers and operations including all Allied ships attacked, technological information and much more. You can also browse our large photo gallery and thousands of U-boat books and movies. While hundreds of U-boats were lost some of the boats are preserved as museums today”.

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