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I've looked through many of the unmentionable sea mammal threads and haven't seen much discussion of the importance, or lack thereof, of a German U boot fleet of four or five times OTL numbers. Lets say to achieve this number of 200 to 400 U boots by summer of 1940 that Germany scaled down construction of its bigger vessels, so no Bismarck, no Graf Spree, no Hipper etc, but did have this much bigger fleet. Just how useful would U boots in general have been, and would a swarm of them been pivotal or not.
Btw, I do feel guilty at starting yet another thread on this, but achieving a massive U boot fleet is something the Germans were able to do in the later war years, so thats not too ASB.
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