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Originally Posted by perisher
The whole exhibit is about displaying an American triumph to an American public and nothing to do with the U-boat. Very disappointing.
I'm not knocking the USA or the USN, it was a fantastic feat of arms and seamanship, although it wasn't the first U-boat to be boarded and captured on the high seas, a fact that isn't mentioned in Chicago, no, I'm complaining about the lack of opportunity to examine the boat, as a boat and not a prize of war.
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OK, as an American, I'll do it! That display tactic is a crime. And I blame the museum more than the USA or USN.
Our whole American submarine strategy and our subs themselves were patterned after the German U-Boats and in a real way were a tribute to the accomplishments of the unterseeboote. Many American submarine skippers studied the tactics of German sub commanders, consciously seeking to imitate them in the Pacific. Were it not for German sub design and tactics, we could have been mired in the Pacific much longer than we were, at the cost of many thousands of American and Japanese lives.