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Re: Hitler's U-Boat war
Posted by: Feargal Craven ()
Date: January 23, 2004 10:19PM

<HTML>Now that I have the ear of a Canadian I thinks it's worth mentioning that the Canadian armed forces pulled off some very good performances against U-Boats during the war.This particular book I felt was doing it's damndest to completely denegrate their reputation.Some of the Canadian convoy escort groups enjoyed kill rates some of the supposedly better equipped American groups could only dream of.The fact that they faltered initially is irrelevant as all the Allied navies were green when it came to ASW.The British admitted after the war that the lessons learned from 1914-1918 were forgotten and the Royal Navy was also forced to learn as it went along.It has to be said that the Canadians conducted their operations almost bereft of the swagger the Americans displayed.While the Americans played an important part in the war they were not the only participants,nor were they the only victors.Perhaps I may lean a little more towards favouring the Royal Navy as both my great great grandfather and my great grandfather served in the RN during World War 1, but as an oft ignored facet of the U-boat war Canadas participation certainly deserves recognition and respect.</HTML>

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Hitler's U-Boat war Feargal Craven 01/22/2004 08:40PM
Re: Hitler's U-Boat war ROBERT M. 01/22/2004 11:43PM
Re: Hitler's U-Boat war ROBERT M. 01/22/2004 11:48PM
Re: Hitler's U-Boat war Douglas Struthers 01/23/2004 05:09AM
Re: Hitler's U-Boat war Feargal Craven 01/23/2004 08:22AM
Re: Hitler's U-Boat war Douglas Struthers 01/23/2004 08:15PM
Re: Hitler's U-Boat war Feargal Craven 01/23/2004 10:19PM
Re: Hitler's U-Boat war Douglas Struthers 01/23/2004 11:36PM
Re: Hitler's U-Boat war Vin 01/24/2004 07:42AM
Re: Canadians tim2 01/24/2004 05:37PM
Re: Canadians ROBERT M. 01/25/2004 03:20AM
Re: Blair tim2 01/25/2004 02:10PM
Re: Canadians Feargal Craven 01/25/2004 07:39PM
Re: Canadians Hey you Canuks? Brian Donald 01/26/2004 12:44AM
Re: Canadians Hey you Canuks? Douglas Struthers 01/26/2004 01:59AM
Re: Canadians Hey you Canuks? Brian Donald 01/26/2004 11:14PM
Re: Canadians Hey you Canuks? Brian Donald 01/26/2004 12:44AM
Re: Hitler's U-Boat war Ken Dunn 01/24/2004 12:38AM
Re: Hitler's U-Boat war ROBERT M. 01/25/2004 03:03AM
Re: Hitler's U-Boat war Meg Rosenfeld 01/25/2004 12:40AM
Re: Hitler's U-Boat war ROBERT M. 01/25/2004 02:19AM
Re: Hitler's U-Boat war ROBERT M. 01/25/2004 03:27AM
Re: Canadian Writer Rodney 01/25/2004 03:46PM
Re: Canadian Writer Douglas Struthers 01/26/2004 02:30AM


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