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Originally Posted by maillemaker
So during the war, subs got nailed whenever they used their radios, due to direction finding equipment.
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They don't seem to have had a clue that it was happening. Doenitz insisted on constant reporting, and never seemed to put the two together.
They also got attacked by radar equipped planes, and caught on late because the vaunted German engineers didn't manage to invent one that operated at the centimetric level for another couple of years, and if they couldn't do it then nobody could.