Yea, I think changing the code would have gone a long ways to help their issues. Most attacks happened cause the allies knew exactly where they were at so instead of a juicy convoy the U-boats found bombers and hunter killer groups! The allies just literally steered the convoys around the U-boats.
Also BDU's absolute insistencethat U-boats radio in daily reports. The allies used Huff-Duff and zeroed in on them for the kill. It was those two things more than anything else that led to the demise of the U-boats.
The war in the Atlantic was lost for the Germans by 1942. They probably could have broke England's back if U-boats were produced in the numbers required at the outset and Hitler sending 40 boats to the Med was a huge mistake to the Atlantic cause.
The Germans swan song is always too little, too late.
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