@Tessa
You speek volumes of truth.
One had to be a fairly senior officer to command a VII"A", IX"A", or even a Type I, at war's start.
A few years later they were handing IXC keys over to fairly junior, and (in terms of command) inexperienced officers.
It's realy sad reading about the number of boats, in late war, that were lost on their first patrol.
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