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Originally Posted by TheSatyr
I don't think the US boats would have been any more sucessful in the Atlantic than the Uboats were,but they wouldn't have taken anywhere near the losses the Uboats did either. The SD and SJ radars on the US boats would have alerted them to danger alot sooner than the Uboat reliance on MkI eyeballs.
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This is the reason why the snorkel was installed on US boats only after the war. It wasn't really needed due to the effectiveness of the fleet boat's radar.