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Re: Thermal Layers
Posted by: Dion ()
Date: July 16, 2004 10:03AM

Thanks for all the replies.

I am at a loss that the Germans would not have tried to utilised this natural occurance.

Whilst I understand it is not possible to determin how effective, big or I presume if you are still under a thermal layer, I would have thought that anything that saved a costly u-boat and the valuable crew would have been investigated, especially as it is in the reprint of the 1943 U-boat Commander Handbook it mentions about their use.

As a u-boat captain I think that I would have had the tap on all the time LOL.

I may be going out on a limb here, but it is my opinion that Donitz did not do well as an overall commander when it come to ensuring that the u-boats were competative.

The lack of a device to easily measure the water tempurature is surely a major failing.

I also make the comment on Donitz as I also would have thought that bigger batteries, deeper diving u-boats and the acoustic torpedo would/should have been implemented sooner. It just appears as if he stood by.

Cheers,

Dion

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Thermal Layers Dion 07/10/2004 07:44AM
Re: Thermal Layers Dan Odenweller 07/10/2004 08:29PM
Re: Thermal Layers kurt 07/12/2004 10:47PM
Re: Thermal Layers Johannes Schlörb 07/12/2004 11:39PM
Re: Thermal Layers Dan 07/13/2004 07:25AM
Re: Thermal Layers kurt 07/13/2004 12:44PM
Re: Thermal Layers ROBERT M. 07/18/2004 02:49PM
Re: Thermal Layers J.T. McDaniel 07/18/2004 05:48PM
Re: Thermal Layers kurt 07/21/2004 02:24PM
Re: Thermal Layers ROBERT M. 07/21/2004 05:06PM
Re: Thermal Layers Paul Mengelberg 07/24/2004 02:24AM
Re: Thermal Layers ROBERT M. 07/24/2004 04:12AM
Re: Thermal Layers ROBERT M. 08/09/2004 06:10AM
Re: Thermal Layers Dion 08/09/2004 01:05PM
Re: Thermal Layers Dion 07/16/2004 10:03AM
Re: Thermal Layers Dan 07/16/2004 12:41PM
Re: Thermal Layers kurt 07/16/2004 12:47PM
Re: Thermal Layers ROBERT M. 07/16/2004 09:26PM
Re: Thermal Layers Paul Mengelberg 07/24/2004 03:12AM
Re: Thermal Layers Dan Odenweller 07/24/2004 04:04PM
Re: Thermal Layers ROBERT M. 07/24/2004 07:53PM


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