ltdan Would it be correct to say that by mid-1943 Coastal Command could send out far more aircraft to search for U-boats than in 1942, but, on the other hand, there were fewer German fighters deployed in that theatre to oppose them than in 1942?
I do not know the exact numbers of the planes used. But from the war diary of the naval warfare command you can see that there were always too few Here is a quote from Admiral Doenitz from 1942: "But the airplane is probably an enemy for the submarine, which disturbs the submarine, but which can never disable it - just as a crow can never fight a mole as long as the dear God has assigned different media to both." DIFFICILE EST SATIRAM NON SCRIBERE!!