"Keith Willshaw" writes:

"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
...
On Mar 16, 5:05 pm, Jack Linthicum
wrote:
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Getting the stuff off on a beach just might be the hardest part of the
trip.

If the U-boats were even twice as effective as on D-Day the RN would
have made glorious, bloody history.

jsw


Well there are two minor problems.

1) In 1940 the Kriegsmarine had only a small fraction of the number of
U-boats
it had in 1944 and they didn't have the French and Belgian bases available.

2) Twice zero is still zero, the U-Boats were totally ineffective on D-Day.

During June 1944 U-Boats in the channel did manage to sink two frigates
and damage a number of other ships but 12 of them were sunk in the process.
The hunter had become the hunted.

By late 1940 I think the Germans were still struggling with their
(magenetic) torpedo firing mechanisms also.