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Originally Posted by Hartmann
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Originally Posted by tater
MANY japanese merchant ships were equipped with hydrophones, particularly later in the war.
Many also had some DCs, though they did not prosecute targets, they just dumped them over the side to try and scare subs away.
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they were running out of destroyers and ships, so need every thing that float converted in to a submarine chaser |
They used small converted merchants as Aux Subchasers, yes. That is not what I'm talking about. I mean that a large % of all merchants had a few DCs aboard, and they'd simply dump them over the side during an attack to scare the subs (didn't work). They did not try to hit anything.