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Originally Posted by Dread Knot

One of the consequences of Doenitz's desire to create a larger U-Boat fleet was that increasingly inexperienced officers and crew were being thrown into the fight against the enemy in machines that weren't keeping with the other side's technology. The elite force he started with war with was pretty much diluted or dead by 1942. Then you add the fact that improved British codebreaking meant more and more convoys were simply routed out of the paths of waiting U-Boats giving them no chance to attack. Thirdly, Allied aircraft carrier-based and land-based kept U-Boats surpressed and submerged where their chances of even sighting a target, let alone attacking it were almost nil.

KM's system simply didn't keep up the times and the Allies overwhelming material advantages. Hardly surprising since the German Navy came third behind the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe in the Reich's order of things.

Well said.