Luftwaffe doing hellova job

[Leandros]

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.