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Originally Posted by roadhogg
As mentioned by Banryu79, and confirmable on Wikipedia if you type "German T2 electric torpedo" in your search bar, most of the T2's depth keeping and detonation problems were apparently solved by the end of the Norwegian campaign (June 40).
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That is certainly at odds with the picture presented by Clay Blair (
Hitler's U-boat War, Volume I, The Hunters, 1939-1942). According to Blair, sub commanders were still critical of torpedo performance, and Dönitz was still raising the issue with OKM in mid-1941. Blair even mentions reports of circular runs, including one that may have destroyed a boat. In June, 1941, Endrass, a
Ritterkreuz holder, reported four failures out of four firings.