FREE: Secret Honor book by W.E.B. Griffin

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"During the spring of 1943, 240 German submarines were operating in the North and South Atlantic Ocean. Their mission was the interdiction of Allied shipping carring war supplies from the United States to England and North Africa, and of Allied shipping carrying wool, beef, and other foodstuffs from (primarily) Argentina to England. During that month German submarines sank fifty-six Allied ships, totaling 327,900 tons, at a cost of fifteen submarines sunk, most of them in the North Atlantic. German submarines assigned to the South Atlantic Ocean, however, were faced with the problems of the great distances between their European home ports and their operational areas. It took approximately a month for a submarine sailing from a French port to reach the mouth of the River Plate in Argentina. Once there, it had little fresh food or fuel- often barely enough to return to its home port. Once its torpedoes were expended, there was no resupply closer than France.The Americans countered by furnishing specially modified B-24 aircraft to Brazil, which had declared war on the Axis January 1942. These aircraft kept the South Atlantic Coast off Argentina and Uruguay under surveillance. Any ship caught replenishing German submarines was considered a legitimate target under the Rules of Warfare, no matter what flag the ship was flying. April 1943 was a busy month in a world at war: On 3 April, General George S. Patton launched an attack against the Germans near El Guettar, Tunisia; and two days later, British general Bernard Montgomery attacked the Italians on the Wadi Akarit line.
On 7 April, the Japanese sent 180 aircraft to attack the Americans on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. A US destroyer and two cargo vessels were sunk. The same day, Adolf Hitler meet with Benito Mussolini in Salzburg, Austria. They decided that Africa had to be held at all costs.