One of the books that made an impression on me as I was growing up in the s was C. My other great interest while I was growing up was maps. That interest I eventually turned into a satisfying career. Ten years ago I was surfing around the Internet and came across uboat.
The site is great but the focus I found to be too limiting. U-boats played a major role in the Battle of the Atlantic but did not account for all the shipping losses in that theatre. Where were the ships sunk by mines or bombs or shells?
Or, for that matter, what about the rest of the war, especially the naval war in the Pacific? There was a rather unsatisfactory map of World War II shipwrecks produced by SeaAustralia but it was grainy and static.
Clearly, if I wanted to see such a map, I would have to create it. And so I embarked on a project of mapping all of the ships sunk during the Second World War as a result of military action i. After 8 years of research I came up with a database and an interactive map that contained over 13, records.
Since I published this mapping application in I have continued to research the Internet and hard copy sources for the locations of the 5, records for which I did not have location.
