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Originally Posted by CCIP
Also, how was USN "the worst", if it's the only sub fleet in WWII that fought and won a commerce war (give or take a number of other allied boats, of course)? They must've done something right, even if we all know that their fleet boats were not built for the role they ended up performing... :hmm:
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Iam not criticise anyone but there was a huge difference between the uboat war in the pacific aka atlantic.
The japanese boats did nearly never go in convoys and most of the time whitout escorts. Also the japanse intelligence was easy for the US to crack and therfore they knew when boats sailed off. japanese refused to belive, during the entire war, that the US had cracked thier code so therefor they didnt change it.
Japanese had a different way to think and act. More or less they belived that the warships should stay togheter as a strong an powerfull fleet and didnt not commence any warship for commercial protection.
So i have to say that the subwar in the pacific was way much easier for the US Navy than it was for the germany Navy.
If same thing had happend in the Atlantic. No convoys, No escorts and when the sub crew knew when ships left port. The germany would won the atlantic war also.
But US Navy did a greate work in the pacific so i dont critcise what they achived. I just point out some major difference.
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