First and last cruise of U-131

17th December 1941: Aircraft from Escort carriers begin to take the fight to the U-boats

The carrier HMS Audacity was the first of the Escort carriers designed to provide much needed air cover for merchant convoys in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Royal Navy anti U-boat tactics were being continuously developed. There was now much better co-ordination of the convoy escorts who worked together in persistently hunting down U-boats when they were …