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To: Old Sarge
if there were fifty more U-boats on station in 1939, Britain would've starved.

I think he said a hunndred, but if the heavy ships including the Bismarck were never built in favor of more U-boats that would have made the nut.

14 posted on 02/09/2004 12:30:24 PM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: Semper Paratus; Old Sarge
Doenitz also complained that the steel used to build just one of those battleships could have built an entire fleet of U-Boats.

It's a good thing that most dictators aren't as smart as they like to think they are...
30 posted on 02/10/2004 2:04:33 PM PST by PsyOp ([Insert string of four-letter profanities here].)
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