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Re:I never have understood
Japan/Germany - they couldn't REACH us to do much damage, even if they'd wanted to.
That's just not true. The German u-boats in particular were very much able to reach us, and cause significant damage. Operation Drumbeat in particular was able to do a surprising amount of damage. With only 5 u-boats, they were able to sink 25 American ships, many of them within sight of major US cities such as New York and Boston, all in the span of a single month.
Over the next few months, they managed to sink 22% of our tanker capacity, and well more than 2 million tons of cargo shiping.
It got to the point where the u-boat commanders were calling the time from January to August in 1942 the "American Shooting Season," and east coast cities and towns had to be blacked out after dark for most of the remainder of the war.
They couldn't invade, but Germans could certainly reach us all right.
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Some WW1 submarine warfare related links
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Re:U-boat numbers
You seem to be making a noise but it bears no relation to known fact
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Re:In Soviet Russua . . . .In Nazi Germany, however, toilet malfunctions sink U-boats : http://www.uboat.net/boats/u1206.htm
To quote Neal Stephenson: "ABANDON SHIT! ABANDON SHIT!"
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Re:In Soviet Russua . . . .
In Nazi Germany, however, toilet malfunctions sink U-boats : http://www.uboat.net/boats/u1206.htm
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Re:coflicting answersFrom this URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
The United States military budget is that portion of the United States discretionary federal budget that is allocated to the Department of Defense. This military budget pays the salaries, training, and health care of uniformed and civilian personnel, maintains arms, equipment and facilities, funds operations, and develops and buys new gear. The budget funds all branches of the U.S. military: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. [ I would guess for non-civilian Coast Guard missions ]
You are right, you're no economist, and if you believe that THIS LAME SAILOR played golf in Japan, Go talk to my daughter with the Purple Heart. She won't talk about the road side bomb, but could talk about the Navy father who was always GONE because of less people [Clinton downsizing] to do the work that needed to be done. Once they were hanging out on military bases here, it'd be really easy to argue that their positions could be safely cut (and the money saved) Downsizing affects everyone and if your job is cut, someone else will have to do more with less. Not to mention the unemployed now trying to find another job. The Military maintains more personal than needed to do JUST the mission so members can be rotated and given time off. Cross training is done to cover each other's butt. I once did the supply stuff when our clerk's father died and I was a airtcraft engine mech working 12 hr shifts 24/7. In 1991, I spent 59 days doing circles in a 200 mile box off the Pacific coast of Panama. Our Coast Guard team recovered 5000 lb of Orange bales while my helicopter provided cover. Maybe your job should be cut and save money?
The Military is not JUST in IRAQ. And its not chess pieces on a chess board, Its made up of people who do a job, and that like to get paid more than slave labor too.
Part of the 2007 Total Funding of $439.3 Billion was Operations and maintenance = $152.2 Bil. and Military Personnel = $110.8 Bil.
The Defense Department is an EMPLOYER and when Congress reduced the US bases years ago, the communities economy around the bases were cut too.
Everybody's JOB is important, and to use "Admiral Dan Gallery" words in his book: "Clear the Decks!", [Gallery, Daniel V. Rear Admiral U.S.N. (ret.), 1967 ], even the guy cleaning the heads is important to the mission. Captain Gallery captured the U505 in WWII, http://uboat.net/boats/u505.htm/.
Don't just study economics, but US and World History as well.
That is if your head isn't buried in the sand [ Isolationist thinking ] while your butt is sticking in the air. -
Re:Amusing
http://uboat.net/boats/u110.htm
Google for U-110. -
Re:I have cracked the other two
RAF pwn3d Brest only in 1944.
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Re:Location of the sub in google maps
Interesting. Here's the fate of that particular boat, BTW:
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Which side wins?
Put them on one side. Take the HMS Ark Royal, a small aircraft carrier from the modern Royal Navy. Put that on the other side. Which side wins?
The German in the Type XXI submarine packing active and passive SONAR, accoustic and wireguided torpedoes with power assisted loading, a truely effective whisper mode that defeats allied passive sonar and accoustic torpedoes and the capability to remain submerged for days on end? The Royal Navy got a very rude shock when they finally got their hands on one of them. Thankfully these boats came to late but they are the early ancestors of modern subs. -
Re:bin laden..
Doenitz was a GRAND ADMIRAL (Grossadmiral), not a mere ADMIRAL.
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Seems like an unfortunate choice of name
The term Wolfpack will forever be associated with the Nazi German Kriegsmarine.
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One last bit
The captain of U-81 responsible for sinking the Ark Royal, Herr Guggenberger, did not perish with it; he was transferred to another U-boat before its sinking, then badly wounded and taken prisoner by the Americans. He later escaped and fled through Arizona, to be recaptured. He died in 1988 in Germany when he simply disappeared in the woods.
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Ah, the internet... U-81 sank indeed
I forgot that trivia fans have everything out there, some of it accurate.
The U-81
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all sorts of interesting stuff
i was a tour guide on the hudson for new york waterway for awhile.
there is supposedly pirates treasure.
it would be nice to find one of these, called "General Washington's Watch Chain."
maybe a german u-boat?
or relics from the age of steamboats.
the hudson is also pretty deep in places. off of west point, for example (206 feet), or near bear mountain bridge (165 feet). it is an ancient river, as old as the appalachians. some of it was carved during the last ice age, and is similar to a norwegian fjord. plenty of room down there.
check this gem out, bannerman's island. an old arms dealer from the spanish american war blew up the castle he built with his business profits by locating his arsenal right next to his castle on his private island. oops. i've kayaked around it and can make out weird shapes in the shallow muck between the island and the shore. wonder what you would find near there! ;-P -
Re:Insult to BritishU-570
The U-570 had a history more bizarre than any movie. She was actually captured in 1941 by an aircraft. The captain raised the white flag after the sub was damaged by depth charges from an RAF Hudson. The aircraft circled her for several hours until Royal Navy and Canadian Navy ships arrived although by that time the crew had destroyed all the crypto stuff.
She was eventually brought back to the UK, renamed HMS Graph and comissioned into the Royal Navy. She did several combat patrols but never managed to sink anything. Around the end of the war, she ran aground on a Scottish Island and was abandoned.
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Re:Version names
Since the subject somewhat changed from Readhat 7.3 to submarines...
a group of Poles stole the machine and gave it to the Brits
May have been true for the first version of the Enigma (the one with 3 barrels), but the version used my the Reichsmarine (navy) had indeed four barrels and it was not until the British captured U-110 (Kptlt. Lemp) before they could crack the German sub's code. The Polish secret service provided a great deal of mathematical background for cracking the Enigma code. Computing power came from specialized machines called "bombs". -
Re:depth charged
There was U-boat activity along the east coast of the U.S. during WWII. See this link
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Re:Hmm.Nope it's not classified.
Yes, they broke some codes. For instance, the Germans read British naval traffic for most, if not all, of the war.
But it's not as black-and-white as people usually put it. For instance, some German codes were never broken, despite Ultra. For more information, see this page at uboat.net. No doubt something like this will also have been true in the other direction.
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Uboat.net Enigma pages
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Uboat.net Enigma pages
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More Enigma Stuff is available...
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Re:Movie Promotion?Indeed. Check out http://www.uboat.net/technical/enigma.htm and http://www.uboat.net/boats/u110.htm for more information.
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Re:Movie Promotion?Indeed. Check out http://www.uboat.net/technical/enigma.htm and http://www.uboat.net/boats/u110.htm for more information.
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