Importance of sub & where it stands in navy arsenal?

[JamesT73J]

Originally Posted by spaceman8888

Uh..I see; thanks James for summarizing it so well, am currently reading Aces of Deep manual; any other resource you may point me to?
& just to add due to SH3 in last few days I watched Das Boot, Red October & K-19;
I wouldnt praise Das Boot as its obvious; but I would say this no words can describe what it is to have SH3 after watching that movie; that's if you have never played any sub sim before & knew too less on it as well.. which is my case

There's plenty - I enjoyed 'Black May' by Michael Gannon, which details the culmination of the ASW effort in May 1943, when all the bad news came at once for the U-boat force. Like many things in life, one is left with the impressions that it is many little things that added up to rather a lot.

The personal accounts are very good - Peter Cremer's U-333, Werner's 'Iron Coffins' (both captains survived, which in itself is noteworthy).

Secondly, the web has loads of good stuff. uboatarchive.net is fascinating, just fof the ASW accounts. You get a picture of a USN and RN that are absolutely at the top of their game, facing an increasingly inexperienced enemy. The methodical precision with which U-boats were hunted down to destruction is quite chilling reading, and an insight into the utter futility of the war.

Read about I-52 (the Japanese cargo sub) for perhaps an ultimate case study in exactly what the Allies were capable of by 1944. Listen to the recordings on the net (chilling). Radar. Sonobuoys (in 1944!!!), homing torpedoes, intelligence intercepts. Basically, a hit in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, executed like a contract killing. Incredible.