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Re: Late war operations off North America?
Posted by: BHenderson ()
Date: April 26, 2011 06:18PM

I don't have details to hand but there seems to have been a flurry of U-boat ops in N. American coastal waters with a number of boats destroyed in the last three months or so of the War. As we all know, May of '43 was the big "bust out" for U-boat operations and my subjective feel that that what few boats were able to operate without being hunted down were pulled back until early '45. I don't know if they were IX boats or VII/41's but there were a number of boats destroyed off New England, the Canada coast, US "Central Atlantic" (New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland), and the Outer Banks of North Carolina in early 1945. As opposed to the easy pickings of "Paschenslag", 1945 was a particularly bad time to be in Western Atlantic coastal waters.

Oh, for a database to be able to query dates, locations of sinkings, etc.

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Late war operations off North America? Hansel 04/19/2011 06:19AM
Re: Late war operations off North America? jcrt 04/26/2011 02:06PM
Re: Late war operations off North America? BHenderson 04/26/2011 06:18PM


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