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Old 11-15-08, 11:13 AM   #7
Letum
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Originally Posted by ppk
Well then why bother having all those big guns? I know it doesn't make a difference in GWX but in real life, that big U-Flak conning tower must have caused loads of drag and reduce performance underwater. Did they think they [german engineers or whoever it is that decided this] could survive on the surface at the time?
High command decided at various times in the war that u-boats should fight it out
on the surface near port. Even with large groups of u-boats and u-flaks it was a
total disaster.

The order to fight it out when following a convoy was also dropped after numerous
sinking.
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