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RE: attack on escorts
Posted by:
Antonio Veiga
()
Date: May 05, 2001 06:17PM
<HTML>Hi SuperKraut
Is the author´s opinion that due to the lack of adecuate number of British escorts on early stages of submarine warfare, and with reliable and fastest German torpedoes
\"... had the germans directed their attacks against the escort ships, would
have rapidly arrived to a situation in which the allied surface ships remained without escort and consequently, in the case of merchant ships, without defense
in practice\".
But the German torpedoes were all but reliables, and the aouthor finger point
in some part to Dönitz:
\"...Nevertheless, then he (Dönitz) didn´t know that the tests of the torpedos with which should be assembled in his submarines ,had been, by saying the minimum thing, superficial . ...
...situatión that followed being unknown in great part until April 1940, when it was known that the fuzes had been accepted being based on only two test shots ,besides although it was known that the devices to maintain the depth were little reliable, they had been accepted for the authorities , based on that had little importance since the proximity magnetic fuze would act ...(Often it didn´t!).\"
\"Even it is about to explain the reluctancy of Dönitz to dedicate its attention to the advanced technologies .Son of an engineer, the scandal of the torpedos of 1940 had caught him unprepared and nothing shows that he exercise pressure to hurry the vital question of the development of an acoustic guided torpedo...\"
Best regards
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Is the author´s opinion that due to the lack of adecuate number of British escorts on early stages of submarine warfare, and with reliable and fastest German torpedoes
\"... had the germans directed their attacks against the escort ships, would
have rapidly arrived to a situation in which the allied surface ships remained without escort and consequently, in the case of merchant ships, without defense
in practice\".
But the German torpedoes were all but reliables, and the aouthor finger point
in some part to Dönitz:
\"...Nevertheless, then he (Dönitz) didn´t know that the tests of the torpedos with which should be assembled in his submarines ,had been, by saying the minimum thing, superficial . ...
...situatión that followed being unknown in great part until April 1940, when it was known that the fuzes had been accepted being based on only two test shots ,besides although it was known that the devices to maintain the depth were little reliable, they had been accepted for the authorities , based on that had little importance since the proximity magnetic fuze would act ...(Often it didn´t!).\"
\"Even it is about to explain the reluctancy of Dönitz to dedicate its attention to the advanced technologies .Son of an engineer, the scandal of the torpedos of 1940 had caught him unprepared and nothing shows that he exercise pressure to hurry the vital question of the development of an acoustic guided torpedo...\"
Best regards
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