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Originally Posted by rudewarrior
I've seen many people quoting statistics that the majority of u-boat attacks occurred on the surface at night. I've read a few excellent books on the Atlantic war (including the Commander's Handbook), but nothing that gives a specific account of the tactics of attacking a convoy with full-blown radar or just later in the war for that matter. Is there anyone that could give me a brief description of attack doctrine/tactics in these situations? If you could quote a source, that would be even more helpful. Thanx in advance.
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Hi!
In general, the Germans generally stopped using their wolf-pack tactics after May 1943, with individual U-boats trying lie submerged just off the convoy's path so as to use their FAT, and later LuT "convoy torpedoes" from a distance. A brief return to the wolf-pack tactics in late 1943 led to heavy causalties, and the tactic was generally dropped after that date. See Michael Gannon's
Black May and Clay Blair's
Hitler's U-boat War: The Hunted 1942-1945.
Pablo
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