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05-06-2004, 04:52 PM
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05-07-2004, 01:37 PM
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05-07-2004, 02:25 PM
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05-08-2004, 02:07 PM
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Country: | i'm not sure, it proberly just detered more than it sank...........
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05-08-2004, 05:40 PM
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| Detering was as effective as sinking. But U-boat sinkings are very hard to verify. I'm not sure an accurate account of how many U-boats a particular ship or plane sank could be determined.
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05-09-2004, 02:15 PM
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Detering was as effective as sinking
| not if it comes back once the plane had gone............
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05-09-2004, 07:43 PM
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05-10-2004, 12:26 AM
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| Exactly. A U-boat had no chance of keeping pace with a convoy when it was submerged. If the Sunderland, Wimpy, Beau, Avenger, Hudson, or whatever else was covering the convoy could get the U-boat to dive, the convoy was saved (at least from that U-boat).
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05-10-2004, 11:48 AM
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05-10-2004, 01:55 PM
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| Yeah. The Wolfpacks were terribly effective. But it's not like the convoys were only capable of attacking/detering one U-boat at a time so that helped.
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05-10-2004, 04:23 PM
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Country: | it's a bit of a homage to the U-Boats that churchill said they were the only thing that frightened him throughout the whole war................
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05-10-2004, 06:53 PM
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05-11-2004, 12:09 AM
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| It took quite a bit to frighten Churchill. I have a lot of respect for that man.
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05-11-2004, 07:13 AM
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05-11-2004, 07:16 AM
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