Shadow Over The Atlantic: The Luftwaffe And The U-boats: 1943-45

German U-boats were the scourge of Allied merchant and military shipping in the Atlantic during World War II, threatening to isolate and then starve the UK out of the war. As Germany`s war against the Allied convoys intensified in late 1943, German Admiral Karl Dnitz called upon the Luftwaffe to provide a long-range spotting and shadowing unit to act as `eyes` for his U-boats. This book tells, for the first time, the fascinating story of the formation and operations of FAGr 5 `Atlantik`, drawing on never-before-published historical records of the unit that accounted for the reporting and destruction of thousands of tons of Allied shipping.