The Mid-Atlantic gap is a geographical term applied to an undefended area of the Atlantic Ocean during the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World...

The GIUK gap (sometimes written G-I-UK) is an area in the northern Atlantic Ocean that forms a naval choke point. Its name is an acronym for Greenland...

availability of longer-range aircraft and escort carriers which closed the Mid-Atlantic gap that the project was intended to address. Geoffrey Pyke was an old...

Liberators played an instrumental role in closing the Mid-Atlantic gap in the Battle of the Atlantic. The C-87 transport derivative served as a longer range...

the latter, he ordered his boats to restrict their operations to the Mid-Atlantic Gap, a stretch of ocean out of the range of land-based aircraft. Allied...

patrols to close the Mid-Atlantic gap. Escort carriers to provide the convoy with air cover, as well as close the mid-Atlantic gap. High frequency direction...

and troop ships en route for Liverpool, enters the "Black Pit", the Mid-Atlantic gap, where they will be out of range of protective air cover. The convoy's...

of technologies, combined with an increase in Allied resources. The mid-Atlantic gap that had previously been unreachable by aircraft was closed by long-range...

Portugal and Kiel, while Royal Navy Commander Swinburne pursues U-949 in the Atlantic. Opposition to Adolf Hitler gains strength from within the Kriegsmarine...

integrated circuits Mid-Atlantic gap, a geographic area not covered by allied air support during the World War II Battle of the Atlantic Aire Gap, a geographical...

Coastal Command Consolidated Liberator, the type that closed the Mid-Atlantic gap...

miles (480–640 km) off the North American mainland in the so-called mid-Atlantic gap, far enough from Allied anti-submarine patrols and land-based aircraft...

payload and a substantially longer range, which finally closed the mid-Atlantic gap. Some of the Douglas Digbys in Canadian service were converted into...

strategically-key points in the Atlantic. The first is known as the "Mid-Atlantic Gap," located off the coast of Greenland. The gap was a very hostile point...

It is protecting a convoy in the Battle of the Atlantic, shepherding it through the Mid-Atlantic gap, where no antisubmarine aircraft are able to defend...

Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor airliner landplane. To finally close the Mid-Atlantic gap, or "Black Gap", a space in which Axis submarines could prey on Allied shipping...

Liberator GR bombers, where they were instrumental in closing the Mid-Atlantic Gap and the subsequent destruction of the German U-boat fleet in May/June...

turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic, allowing the Allies to provide aerial coverage in the Mid-Atlantic gap; helping them to hunt U-boats and protect...

of the Atlantic, enabling the Royal Air Force, the U.S. Army Air Forces, and the U.S. Navy to provide aerial coverage in the Mid-Atlantic gap. This helped...

Battle of the Atlantic; by allowing the Allies to provide aerial coverage in the middle of the Atlantic (i.e. it closed the Mid-Atlantic Gap), it helped...

position on the breakout road to Tunis. 28: Allies attempt to close the mid-Atlantic gap in the war against the U-boats with long-range bombers. 30: Operation...

Arctic convoys to the Allies ultimately gaining the upper hand in the Mid-Atlantic gap, repelling the D-Day invasion and finally escaping to Buenos Aires...

tons March Allied shipping losses are 627,000 tons. April Closing of Mid-Atlantic gap May Allied shipping losses are 157,000 tons, and 37 U-boats are sunk...

carriers and shipping was vulnerable to attacks by U-boats in the Mid-Atlantic Gap, where there was no air cover. The Admiralty decided that small carriers...

The Darién Gap (UK: /ˈdɛəriən, ˈdær-/, US: /ˌdɛəriˈɛn, ˌdɑːr-, dɑːrˈjɛn/, Spanish: Tapón del Darién [taˈpon del daˈɾjen], lit. 'Darién plug') is a geographic...

first discovered mid-ocean ridge was the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is a spreading center that bisects the North and South Atlantic basins; hence the...

accepted at that time. The Liberator would assist in closing the 'Mid-Atlantic Gap' which U-boats could operate in without worrying about air interdiction...

Atlantic, escort carriers became a vital part of Allied convoys, increasing the effective protection radius and helping to close the Mid-Atlantic gap...

with constant air cover, the 'Mid-Atlantic Gap', where ships could not be provided with air cover, was closed, and from mid-1943 the U-boats were all but...

Consolidated B-24 Liberator, which had the range to operate over the Mid-Atlantic Gap, and an example of this aircraft with the DMS-1000 was sent to the...