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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
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Originally Posted by IceGrog
so in order for the 60% fate at the end of the war it was just plain short of suicide to be on patrol in a u-boat towards the end years
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You really get a sense of that when you read Werner's Iron Coffins and Peter Cremer's U-boat Commander (which I'm in the middle of now). I haven't reached the part where Cremer gets his XXI (eagerly looking forward to that...man, what a boat that must have been) but he's just been sent back out in the summer of '43 after being on Donitz's staff. He paints a very very grim picture. |
Try Hunter-Killer(I do not have the authors name, I'm at work) , about the CVE carriers, talk about no chance in hell. These pilots were seeing uboats 20 miles away. The radar was just that good to pick them up at night. They were using the new FIDO and sonobouy. Not to mention Huff/Duff. I'm in 1940 and I'm really dreading seeing 1943 if I make it that far
. I can only imaging the forboding feeling in the late years of the war
