Japanese escorts were much better than you give them credit for. Alot of US subs only made it home because of how well built their subs were,plus the IJN made up for their poorer quality sonar,(Later in the war,in the beginning their sonar was as good as everybody elses),by developing 600lb DCs. They didn't need to be quite as accurate with those.
I really don't understand why people seem to think the japanese stunk at anti-sub warfare...must be a European bias thing. After all they did manage to take down over 40 US subs out of around 200+ that saw action so they couldn't have been THAT bad.(Out of a total of 52 losses,2 were training accidents,2 were friendly fire incidents, at least 2 were killed by their own torps and a couple ran aground).
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