U-bootlied but you’re being depth charged at 150m

tfw you shouldn’t have attacked that convoy Advances in convoy tactics, high-frequency direction finding, depth charges, ASW spigot mortars, the intermittent cracking of the German Naval Enigma code, the introduction of the Leigh light, the range of escort aircraft (especially with the use of escort carriers), the use of mystery ships, and the full entry of the U.S. into the war with its enormous shipbuilding capacity, all turned the tide against the U-boats. In the end, the U-boat fleet suffered extremely heavy casualties, losing 793 U-boats and about 28,000 submariners (a 75% casualty rate, the highest of all German forces during the war). - #World_War_II_(1939–1945)
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