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Old 02-23-12, 11:12 AM   #12
Dread Knot
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Originally Posted by VONHARRIS View Post
I agree.
Even if U-2511 had wiped out the entrire TF HMS Norfolk was part of , that wouldn't have contributed nothing to the German side at that time.

But two years earlier? ..............
I assume you mean if the Germans had had the Type XXI two years earlier?

In war nothing happens in a vacuum. If the Type XXI had made it's debut earlier than likely so would the Allied ASW countermeasure that were already being experimented on near war's end. Sonabouys, dipping sonar, helicopters, better homing torpedoes. etc. With their superior resources and an unassailable industrial base to work from, I have no doubt these more advanced ASW developments would have been acclerated.

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