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Old 05-03-21, 01:32 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by propbeanie View Post
Sink 'em All and a few other books make mention of them, and 1945 rings a bell for me... I'll try to dig through some references later. They were ~after~ the FM sonar and Hell Bells.
weapons that we refer to as decoys, for subs to jam surface hydrophone/sonar detection, were not implemented until late spring 1945. Lockwood discusses the R&D several times in Sink 'Em All.
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