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Originally Posted by d@rk51d3
Reading "U-Boat Killer", it was stated that very few boats were actually fitted with ASDIC, and of those that were, some were experimental, and not many knew how to use it.
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Here is an interesting article by someone who served on HMS Antelope which describes the use of ASDIC at the very beginning of the war http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/s...a1117964.shtml
I would hazard a guess that it was lack of training of the ASDIC operators rather than the lack of ASDIC sets that was the major drawback early in the war. The book you refer to was published in 1956, perhaps there were certain classified elements around the use of ASDIC during the war at this time, but again I am just guessing here.
Nemo
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Last edited by Captain Nemo; 07-16-08 at 06:43 AM.
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