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Originally Posted by fastfed
but people used to always say that the American Campaign was useless compared to the German one, pacific war was boring, nothing was really done there, all that stuff..
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Well, let me try and maybe find where the flaw is, here.
Are you SURE they were talking about JUST the comparative submarine services? If so, as others in this thread have posted, that's utter nonsense. The US submarine war was FAR more effective than the German one.
Now, if they were talking about the ENTIRE THEATER...you have a better argument. Yes, the Pacific War was dynamic, had a lot of naval action, etc. But what a lot of us subsimmers (or naval simmers) tend to forget is that a difficult naval struggle does not make up an entire war.
IE., sure, lots more naval action in the Pacific than European War. Yet, still, US expenditure on the two fronts was WILDLY different. The US Army Air Force ALONE lost nearly as many people as the entire US Navy did during the entire Pacific War. The US Army in Europe was TRIPLE that number.