Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "1942 USCGC Icarus versus U-352 in torpedo alley, Updated episode" video.

  1. "Operation Drumbeat", was the term designated by Admiral Karl Donitz (apologise for no umlaut over the "o"; CNC of the Kreigsmarine), for the highly successfully U-boat attacks on the Atlantic coast in 1942. So many tankers in the Gulf of Mexico were burning, that reputedly, you could read newsprint on shore by the light of the many burning tankers out at sea. It seems the US Navy failed to heed the lessons of the British Royal Navy from the first "happy time" of the U-boats (1939-40). This can partly be blamed on Admiral Ernest J. King, who had a cool attitude towards the "limeys", and in the US Navy failing to seriously formulate, equip and rehearse antisubmarine warfare tactics prior to 1942.
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