Méo
10-25-09, 02:57 PM
While waiting for some info/screens/video from ubisoft i thought it could be an idea to post some interesting reading/video about the u-boat war.
If you guys have QUICK and INTERESTING reading/video about it, post them! It's always good to know more.
Here's what i found for the moment (It's from uboat.net):
Although Dönitz was essentially on his own as far as training and organisation was concerned, he was looking forward to the task. He wrote that he had his "own ideas about the training of the Flotilla and had set myself certain, clearly defined fundamental objectives." He went on to give details of these objectives. He said:
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3. As the range at which a U-boat should fire, both in surface and in submerged attack, I laid down the short range of 600 yards...During the summer of 1935 the UAS had been teaching the young crews that when a U-boat discharged its torpedoes submerged, it must do so at a range of over 3,000 yards from the target, in order to avoid detection by the British Asdic apparatus...I strenuously opposed this conception...
4. I considered that the U-boat was ideal as a torpedo carrier, even at night and in a surface attack.
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a. It is essential, in an attack on any given objective, to be able to deliver the attack in as great strength as possible...to bring a number of U-boats to attack simultaneously the given objective...A massed target then, should be attacked by massed U-boats.
http://www.uboat.net/men/training/introduction.htm
I found it particularly interesting because it's a very daring strategy and i remember an interview with kretschmer saying that he got through a convoy, in surface, at night and shot the most valuable targets at close range.
Seems to me like those daring moves were almost impossible to achieve in SHIII.
If you guys have QUICK and INTERESTING reading/video about it, post them! It's always good to know more.
Here's what i found for the moment (It's from uboat.net):
Although Dönitz was essentially on his own as far as training and organisation was concerned, he was looking forward to the task. He wrote that he had his "own ideas about the training of the Flotilla and had set myself certain, clearly defined fundamental objectives." He went on to give details of these objectives. He said:
1. Skip
2. Skip
3. As the range at which a U-boat should fire, both in surface and in submerged attack, I laid down the short range of 600 yards...During the summer of 1935 the UAS had been teaching the young crews that when a U-boat discharged its torpedoes submerged, it must do so at a range of over 3,000 yards from the target, in order to avoid detection by the British Asdic apparatus...I strenuously opposed this conception...
4. I considered that the U-boat was ideal as a torpedo carrier, even at night and in a surface attack.
5. Skip
a. It is essential, in an attack on any given objective, to be able to deliver the attack in as great strength as possible...to bring a number of U-boats to attack simultaneously the given objective...A massed target then, should be attacked by massed U-boats.
http://www.uboat.net/men/training/introduction.htm
I found it particularly interesting because it's a very daring strategy and i remember an interview with kretschmer saying that he got through a convoy, in surface, at night and shot the most valuable targets at close range.
Seems to me like those daring moves were almost impossible to achieve in SHIII.