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02-17-21, 08:06 PM | #1 |
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Another great book; "The U-Boat War In The Atlantic"
Written shortly after the war with original documents by Gunther Hessler who was a u-boat skipper and then held BdU staff positions. Three volumes, on the first currently.
Few interesting items: - Operations didn't go past 15 degrees west until 11/1940. - Every night attack was to be done on the surface. No scope attacks. - U-boats "never employed the tactics of approaching the enemy half-submerged, with tanks already flooded" aka decks awash. - If a convoy was thought able to be attacked two nights in a row, u-boats were forbidden to attack during the day. I suspect there will be many other items for anyone interested as I've barely started reading it !
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