I understand the military honor of those who served in war but it is quite horrific to think of those on civilian and military ships who went down by torpedo.
The Brits’ brought it on with their naval blockade of Germany.
What did they expect? When we were neutral, they knew we would risk our shipping to get goods to Britain, knowing there was no way our ships could run the British blockade to get our goods to Germany, they knew the blockade of Germany would eventually get us into the war once the Germans sank our ships.
> “A proper use of U-Boats would have drastically changed the war by strangling Britain and choking American supplies.”
If Hitler had built more U-boats early instead of wasting time, money, and raw material on battleships and an aircraft carrier, he would have strangled Britain. That doesn’t automatically mean he would have won the war, but it sure would have increased his odds.
My father was in submarines in the Pacific during WWII.