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Re: Below
Posted by: Marine Helferin ()
Date: June 23, 2002 09:02PM

<HTML>The plot of the movie sounds horrible.J.T. McDaniel wrote:
>
> Quite a number of American submarines ran anti-u-boat
> patrols in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Mostly these were
> older boats, including a lot of R-class types that simply
> were not suitable for the distances needed in the Pacific. If
> I remember correctly, the extent of their success was credit
> for one u-boat initially credited as sunk, but later reduced
> to damaged. On the whole, the Atlantic wasn't a very good
> hunting ground for American subs, since the German presence
> was almost entirely submarines, and escorts and patrol planes
> are notorious for not being able to recognize their own side.
> In the Atlantic, at least, American aircraft are credited
> with (or suspected of) sinking more American subs than the
> Germans.
>
> J.T. McDaniel</HTML>

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