Re: Commerce Raiders

Alan Nordin wrote:
In the fall of 1942, the USN landing ship and craft programs were
reduced in order to increase and speed up the DE program.
Cancellations included 85 LST [9/16/42] & 48 LCIL [late 1942].

Not only that, but further capacity was created and that capacity was
devoted to building escorts, not amphibious shipping. And the US was
already building escorts to fight the anticipated U-boat threat in
late 1942. What it did was upgrade the priority of ASW escorts.

Now assume there was little to no U-boat threat and all the USN had to
worry about were the Japanese, my guess is the 133 ships you mention
are only part of the additional shipping that would have been
available worldwide to the Allies.

The Kriegsmarine definitely had an effect.


LC

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