Talk:German submarine U-158 (1941)

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More details on fate

The book The Codebreakers by David Kahn offers more detail on U-158s fate on page 504.

"That morning, U-158 went on the air to report to Donitz that he had nothing to report. Huffduff stations at Bermuda, Hartland Point, Kingston, and Georgetown heard him. McMahon plotted his position as latitude 33 degress north, longitude 67 degrees 30 minutes west. This information raced down through channels until it reached Lieutenant Richard E. Schreder, U.S.N., flying an antisubmarine patrol out of Bermuda. Ten miles from the spotted location he found U-158 loafing on the surface, its crew sunbathing. One of Schreder's depth charges landed on the submarine's superstructure just as it was trying to dive. It went down all right, but never came back up."

"Huffduff" was the US Navy high-frequency radio direction finding (HF/DF -> Huffduff) network.

This paragraph sits in a broader section that emphasises the poor signal security demonstrated by the U-boat fleet. Mainly Donitz had the subs be far too chatty, and this made direction finding and codebreaking much simpler than it should've been.

Kahn cites Samuel E. Morison, The Battle Of The Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943, History Of United States Naval Operations in World War II, pages 226-228. 2.100.46.21 (talk) 23:31, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]