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Originally Posted by Letum
Steve is right.
The only exception was the first u-boats to sail to the US coast in operation Drum Beat. They where ordered not to attack any ships less than 30,000*tonnes on the way there in order to keep the attack as a surprise.
*30,000 I think. I may have tonnage minimum wrong, not 100% sure.
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"[...] the commanders had permission to sink ships on the crossing to the US coast if they were larger than 10,000 tons."
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http://uboat.net/men/hardegen.htm