Mystery Airplane Contest – January 2025

The use of aircraft to combat submarines began in WWI with the deployment of flying boats and airships to counter German U-Boats. Similar operations evolved during WWII, but with even longer ranged bombers to challenge the new brand of U-Boats that roamed the oceans world-wide. Land-based aircraft predominated at the beginning of the war, but carrier-based aircraft, using the smaller escort carriers ("jeep carriers") and squadrons of hunter-killer teams, backed up by intelligence gathered about U-Boat operations, won, what Winston Churchill called, the Battle of the Atlantic.

A new Battle of t...