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Because some people said it doesn't make it so.
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Because you say doesn't make it so. These people were there, you were not. And in many cases they were talking about the first week or so of the war. England was not prepared for war and in some cases it showed.
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No planes? Anything? They didn't carry depth charges yet, but they had bombs and while .303 calibre guns wouldn't penetrate a pressure hull they would certainly kill anyone on deck at the time. In April 1940 U-64 was sunk by a bomb from a Swordfish carried on the battleship HMS Warspite.
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The pilot they interviewed stated that with the type of planes they were sent up with they had nothing to attack the subs. Yes, nothing. Watch the fracking documentary instead of attacking me.
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Tell that to Gerhard Glattes. Johannes Franz. Rolf Dau. Alexander Gelhaar. Horst Wellner. Werner Lott. All killed or captured by British destroyers in 1939.
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And are you not aware of how closely the military followed their leaders directions once they were in the field by themselves?
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Well, exept for SS San Demetrio, when the crew abandoned the burning tanker only to have it make a big circle and come back later, with the fires extenguished by themselves. The crew reboarded and made port safely.
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Sure, Steve, there were always exceptions. That is Murphy at full work there. For example there was Fritz-Julius Lemp who abandoned his UBoat thinking it would sink and it did not. These quotes were also from people stating what it felt like at the time. If you were on a merchant tanker carrying gas, you felt that your ship would be vaporized at any time by a UBoat. It didn't mean it would happen.
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Except for when they had a ship specifically assigned to play rearguard and pick up survivors. Or when an escort did it.
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But THOSE ships, as you yourself EXPLICITLY STATED were assigned to do that. They were not ships in the convoy turning to get survivors. So what is your fracking point??