Battle of the Caribbean

Battle of the Caribbean
	Part of World War II, Battle of the Atlantic
	; The Antilles, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico
Date	1941–1945
Location	Antilles, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico
Result	Allied victory
Belligerents
Allies:; United States; United Kingdom; Canada; Netherlands; Free France; Cuba; Panama; Venezuela; Mexico; Colombia; Peru; other allies	Axis:; Germany; Italy; Vichy France
Commanders and leaders
Ernest J. King; Jesse Oldendorf; Sir Percy Noble; Sir Max K. Horton; Wolfgang Larrazábal; Francisco de Menocal Roldán	Erich Raeder; Karl Dönitz; Romolo Polacchini
Casualties and losses
400 merchant ships sunk	17 submarines

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.^[3] 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.

^ The United States Coast Artillery Command on Aruba and Curaçao in World War II The Coast Defense Study Group Journal, Volume 11, Issue 2.
^ "The U-Boat War In The Caribbean: Opportunities Lost".
^ One U.S. naval source gives different dates for the battle. See Smith, Commander C. Alphonso, U.S. Naval Reserve, "Battle of the Caribbean", Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, Vol. 80/9/619, September 1954: "The Battle of the Caribbean lasted nine and a half months—from February 16, 1942, to November 30, 1942."