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Originally Posted by Letum
It would not add to realism at all.
No u-boat carried Star-shells, or AP shells for that matter.
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I'm currently reading The U-Boat Wars by Edwin P. Hoyt and according to his book they did. If anyone else has the book they can see, too. It is near the beginning of chapter 12 (titled The Convoy Trade). I just read this today. This is a paragraph from the book (referring to an attack on convoy HX72):
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At about 10:30 P.M. one of the submarines from Doenitz's wolf pack fired off a star shell over the starboard side of the convoy. At the same time Knapp saw a ship hoist the red light ["have been torpedoed"]. Again no explosions were seen and nothing was heard. The Lowestoft was on the port side of the convoy, and Commander Knapp tried to find out what was going on. He signaled the commodore but got no reply. He swung out and around and finally saw the torpedoed ship near the center of the convoy.
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