What it seems to look like then as I read through this vast storehouse of knowledge poring in from my British cousins, is that during the war the DD's and aircraft carriers became the most in demand.
I know that the US had carriers galore...big ones, small ones & just about anything that would hold a barn door on top would launch something...
Then they had a dozen DD's running around protecting each and every one.
A very telling statement came out in that old movie "D-day" where the german in the bunker screeming at his superior over the phone during the initial bombardment... "THOSE 5000 SHIPS U SAY THEY DON'T HAVE, WELL THEY HAVE THEM!"
I can't believe that the average U-boat Kaptian didn't see the hand writing on the wall. As time marched on and he could see more and larger convoys that just kept coming...No matter how many he sank, they just kept coming...more and more, and endless array of ships full of supplies.
My uncle Al joined the merchants in 1936. He was sunk first in the channel and then again just in sight of New York harbor.
He told me that the Mermansk run was the worst. They were so heavly loaded and he watched while one iced up ship just went into a wave and never came back up.
I think of some of those "sea war stories" that he told me about sometimes while I am playing this game.. Especially after I have torpedoed a merchant in very rough seas....
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