The Battle of the Caribbean refers to a naval campaign waged during World War II that was part of the Battle of the Atlantic, from 1941 to 1945. German U-boats and Italian submarines attempted to disrupt the Allied supply of oil and other material. They sank shipping in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and attacked coastal targets in the Antilles. Improved Allied anti-submarine warfare eventually drove the Axis submarines out of the Caribbean region.
Remembrance
WWII visits St Lucia
On 9 March 1942, the Second World War reached St Lucia in a sudden and violent manner when the passenger vessel RMS Lady Nelson and the cargo ship SS Umtata were torpedoed inside Castries Harbor. [Read more]
