Another Career Down the Drain. (lesson to be learned!)

[maillemaker]

Yeah, I've read Werner's book, which was why I mentioned the balloons.

How expensive would it have been to deploy decoys in the Bay of Biscay?

How expensive was it to keep losing u-boats and crews?

Of course hindsight is 20-20, but given how they were getting their asses handed to them in the bay and they knew it, and they knew that AAA was ineffective, you think they would have put more effort into the decoys.

I did not know about the Thetis device, though - thanks for the link.

Steve

[BigWalleye]

Originally Posted by maillemaker

Yeah, I've read Werner's book, which was why I mentioned the balloons.

How expensive would it have been to deploy decoys in the Bay of Biscay?

How expensive was it to keep losing u-boats and crews?

Of course hindsight is 20-20, but given how they were getting their asses handed to them in the bay and they knew it, and they knew that AAA was ineffective, you think they would have put more effort into the decoys.

I did not know about the Thetis device, though - thanks for the link.

Steve

It's not about the expense. It's about industry working at full capacity 24/7 trying to make enough tires to meet the needs of the Wehrmacht. Then someone stands up in a meeting and says: "We should cut back on some of those tires and make balloons instead. We've got this really great idea which we are pretty sure will work." Uh huh.

[Zosimus]

Fascism is a bad system. It's all top down. No one has freedom to try, to risk, or to innovate. It's all just do as you are told and shut up about it.

[WilhelmSchulz.]

Originally Posted by Zosimus

Fascism is a bad system. It's all top down. No one has freedom to try, to risk, or to innovate. It's all just do as you are told and shut up about it.

Not as bad as the Soviets where. Read up on some of there subs. A total disgrace.

[BigWalleye]

Originally Posted by Zosimus

Fascism is a bad system. It's all top down. No one has freedom to try, to risk, or to innovate. It's all just do as you are told and shut up about it.

I would be the last person to argue in favor of a command economy, whether Fascist, Communist, or some other flavor. But during WW2, every belligerent's economy was pretty much centrally controlled. In the US, we had the War Production Board (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Production_Board) with a half-dozen or so sub-boards. They made all major production decisions, allocated resources (including labor), and coordinated transportation. The UK had the same system under a different name. It was all "voluntary" of course, and no one was shot for refusing to participate. But there was a lot of social and political pressure to "do your part."

[Kaptlt.Endrass]

Thank you all for your help. I'll keep from wholly trusting my radar from now on.

I read Jimbuna's message today about the community, and I couldn't agree more. Since I've gotten here, I have ALWAYS had questions answered, suggestions and comments given, and a sense of camaradrie rarely found on the web.

Live long, Subsim. Live long.