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Originally Posted by TheSatyr
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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That would be because the Japanese truly sucked at ASW.
They lost 50% of their Merchants to Subs, their ASW doctrine, training and equipment were all poor and they had a cultural bias against it.
Its covered in all the references.
A much less than 20% kill rate (most USN subs made multiple sorties during the war making the 'kill per cruise' rate much lower) is not something to boast about.