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hn_throw2025yesterday at 1:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

“during WWII, the US Navy… winning the U-boat war in the Atlantic”

Sounds like typical US revisionist history.

They developed ASDIC? HF/DF? Hedgehog? Even the depth charge?

No, that was all the British.

I would say technological development plus the Enigma decrypts were the biggest factor.


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pjmorrisyesterday at 9:52 PM

Yes.

"When whole squadrons of very long-range aircraft were operating out of bases in the Shetlands, Northern Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland (and, after mid-1943, the Azores), and when the Bay of Biscay could be patrolled all through the night by aircraft equipped with centimetric radar, Leigh Lights, depth charges, acoustic torpedoes, even rockets, Doenitz’s submarines knew no rest." [0]

[0] Kennedy, Paul. Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War, from the chapter 'How to Get Convoys Safely Across the Atlantic'

cladopayesterday at 10:07 PM

>No, that was all the British.

And not even British. For example most of the Enigma decryption was the genius work of a Polish man. Britain received the immigration of half the Nobel prices of the world in a couple years as the jews escaped nazism.

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