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Material Lost
Posted by: Scott Sorenson ()
Date: March 22, 2024 07:56PM

While reading "Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days" by Karl Doenitz I ran across the following extract taken from an "Instructional Handbook" issued to the American Air Force during the War:

If a U-boat sinks two 6,000 ton ships and one 3,000 ton tanker, here is a typical list of the sort of losses we should incur: 42 tanks, 8 6-inch howitzers, 88 25-pounder guns, 40 40mm guns, 24 armored patrol vehicles, 50 Bren guns or self-propelled gun mounts, 5,120 ton of munitions, 600 rides, 428 tons of tank accessories, 2000 tons of rations and 1000 drums of petrol

Just think of what we could have done with that lot, if the three ships had reached port safely.

To inflict similar losses by the air-raid the allies would have to 3000 sorties. Just a little information to think about.

Scott

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