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Old 08-11-08, 06:45 AM   #14
Leandros
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Originally Posted by jimbuna
In the middle of my latest reading (Bitter Ocean - David Fairbank White) in which the author states that some of the Condor pilots were so inept, they had difficulty in working out the course/direction some of the convoys were on.
Dønitz writes a lot about this in his biography - Zehn Jahre und Zwanzig Tage. Much of the problem stemmed from the fact that the Kriegsmarine were not allowed to uphold their Küstenflieger units which specialized in long-range trans-oceanic navigation.
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