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Old 12-01-07, 07:02 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Woof1701
Cool. BBW. Sounds really exciting. Was that a large escort screen for a convoy this size? In GWX 1.03 I sometimes had the impression that a large escort screen with 6 or 8 DDs and DEs on a relatively small convoy was a bit too much. However I have no idea about what real convoys were composed like.
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You may want to check out this site, which lists the detailed composition of many of the convoys on the North Atlantic run and, if you look hard enough, links to other convoy sites:
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/index.html
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