1943 The Second World War at Sea in Photographs

At the beginning of the year, the Battle of Guadalcanal was still raging on, but the Americans had secured their first complete victory in the Pacific by the end of February, although the war in this theatre was far from over, with several further engagements taking place throughout the year.‘Black May’, the point in the Battle of the Atlantic at which the German U-boat losses outnumbered how many...