War Poster Battle Atlantic Map Donald Blake WWII

Original vintage World War Two pictorial map poster The Battle of the Atlantic - Design by Frederick Donald Blake (1908-1997) features a map depicting the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Iceland illustrated with military vehicles and their locations including convoys of ships and aircraft from the United States, Canada and Russia, British Convoys to the Mediterranean and the East, Airstrike locations, paratroopers, submarines and airbases. Description below reads - 1944 Marks a triumph in the battle of the Atlantic - In the early stages of the war Hitler hoped to starve Britain of food and raw materials by hunting down her merchant shipping with his U-boat packs. Just how those hopes have been dashed was revealed early in 1944, when Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. A. V. Alexander, stated in the House of Commons that there had been periods when more U-boats had been sunk than merchant ships. He added: "The reduction is further exemplified by the falling proportion of ships lost in main North Atlantic and United Kingdom coastal convoys. In 1941, one ship was lost out of every 181 which sailed; in 1942, one out of every 233; in 1943, one out of every 344. The losses in these convoys during the second half of last year were less than one in 1,000." This remarkable record has been achieved by the unceasing watchfulness of R.A.F. Coastal Command, which sank more U-boats in 1943 than in all the other years of the war put together; by the grow- ing number of escort vessels safeguarding convoys, and by the pounding of U-boat bases and factories by the Allied Air Forces. Good condition, folds, creasing, tears, minor staining. Country of issue: UK, designer: Frederick Donald Blake, size (cm): 76x51, year of printing: 1940s.