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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
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  |
I never play much past '42 in SH3, since I'm such a chicken! Hee hee...
Cremer says something to that effect in his book. Something like "they were sending us out in obsolete equipment that had absolutely no chance in the face of all the technological advancements of the Allied ASW technology." By the end of the war, they were just fighting to stay alive, rather than sink tonnage. Donitz said asmuch to Hitler, but Hitler continued to send them out, saying something to the effect of "If we don't fight them in the Atlantic, we'll be fighting them on the shores." In essence, they had become cannon fodder. Sad.