
January 2025 Newsletter
Operation Drumbeat was a coup for German Navy Admiral Karl Dönitz‘s gray wolves and an appalling episode for the Allies. During the first half of 1942, in coastal waters from Canada to the Caribbean, more than 360 merchant ships and tankers totaling about 2,250,000 gross tons went to the bottom. The Second Happy Time occurred between January 1942 and August of that year and involved several German naval operations, including Operation Neuland. German submariners named it…