No Higher Purpose

The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy
in the Second World War
1939-1943
Volume II, Part I

by
W.A.B. Douglas, Roger Sarty, Michael Whitby
Robert H. Caldwell, William Johnston, William G.P. Rawling


CONTENTS

  Maps and Diagrams vii
  Glossary and Abbreviations ix
  Introduction xvii
Section 1: Evolving a Role
Chapter 1 Planning, Mobilization and War, September 1939 to May 1940 27
Chapter 2 Responding to the New Challenge, May to December, 1940 91
Chapter 3 The RCN and the Anglo-American Alliance, January to July 1941 151
Chapter 4 Implementing Anglo-Americab Convoy Agreements I, July to October 1941 207
Chapter 5 Implementing the Convoy Agreements II, October to December, 1941 263
Section 2: Crisis and Response
Chapter 6 The Pacific Coast and Alaska, December 1941 to July 1943 331
Chapter 7 Paukenschlag and the Caribbean, January 1942 to August 1942 373
Chapter 8 The Battle of the St Lawrence, February 1942 to December 1943 429
Chapter 9 North Atlantic Convoy Operations I, July to September 1942 477
Chapter 10 North Atlantic Convoy Operations II, October to December 1942 531
Chapter 11 The Creation of Canadian North-West Atlantic Command 579
Appendices
App I Royal Canadia Navy Personbnel Casualties -- 1939-1945 631
App II Senior Appointments within the Royal Canadian Navy,
September 1939 to April 1943
641
App III Canadian Navy Warshiph Losses, September 1939 to April 1943 644
App IV Axis Submarine Losses to Canadian Forces,
September 1939 to April 1943
645
App V German Officer Ranks and RCN/RN Equivalents 646
 
  Index of Ships 647
  Index 653

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Maps and Diagrams

Colour Plates

War Art 321-328

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Glossary and Abbreviations

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Introduction and Acknowlegements

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Transcribed and formatted by Patrick Clancey, HyperWar Foundation