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Old 02-25-08, 06:25 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by M. Sarsfield
What prompted this was me noticing the A-Scope box in the radio room of the u-boot. I'm assuming that it's for air contacts.
That's for the surface search radar. U-boats did not have a dedicated air-search radar like the American subs did, and their PPI scopes (called 'Drauf') came too late in the war to be operational.
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