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Old 05-30-22, 11:57 PM   #3
Bubblehead1980
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Originally Posted by KaleunMarco View Post
the merchant marine installed older, leftover cannons, when available, to ward off surfaced U-boats but that is not really an auxiliary cruiser and the US Navy never bought into that concept.

our armed transport/cargo ships were AK's. i think that is as close as we came to an auxiliary cruiser. (lol)

Right but the enemy had them and US had a abbreviation for them I am sure( I recall seeing one somewhere) but have not been able to find out.
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