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RE: type xxi
Posted by:
Stewart
()
Date: December 19, 2000 07:29PM
<HTML>In Blair\'s introduction to Hitler\'s U Boat War: The Hunters 1939-42, he reports that amongst the major faults noted in the type XXI were: poor structural integrity, underpowered diesel engines, impractical hydraulics and an imperfect snorkel. He goes on to add that althought the US navy adopted some of the type XXI features, by the 50s and 60s the US Navy was so far ahead as to render German submarine technology archaic.
Is he being anti-anything-that-the-Nazis-produced or does he have a valid point?</HTML>
Is he being anti-anything-that-the-Nazis-produced or does he have a valid point?</HTML>
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