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Brugge is in Flanders : the Pas de Calais is in France .And Amiens is not located in the Pas de Calais . Amiens is the capital of the department of the Somme and was in WW2 the HQ of the second panzer division . And the distance between Amiens and Dunkirk is more than 150 km ,to Brugge even more...

There is a difference between both : the LW was still able in 1940 to attack London while Doenitz did not know where were the non rerouted convoys and while his U Boats had not sufficient fuel and ammunition . But : why should the RAF go after the LW bombers in 1945,when these were unable to...

Germany was not aware of time and place of Overlord, but this was not important,because Germany had not the forces to defeat the landing even if they knew it . It was the same for the U Boats: even if they had more information about the convoys, they could not sink more MV/supplies . And about...

If the U Boats could not do anything against the convoys, there was no need to search for them .

If they had been able : IF is not a serious argument .

Germany did NOT know where the convoys were exactly, but only where they were roughly .

No : he did not keep them away from where they could be bombarded ,but for other reasons ,as they were concentrated at railway junctions,to make it easier to supply them and from where they could easier advance .By railway . 2 PzD was the only PzD north of the Somme and was concentrated at the...

I have given the proof that more U Boats does not mean more losses of supplies/of MV, thus the number of lost U Boats is not relevant .

There were several attacks which resulted in big losses,but the number of lost U Boats is irrelevant . The principle of the attacks is questionable, as no attacks would not improve the Allied situation : a submarine fleet in being could be as efficient as a submarine fleet searching, mostly...

If he believed it, why did Das Reich ,located at Toulouse, receive the order on June 6 to go to ..Normandy ? Why did he transfer 2 PzD (9 and 10 SS ) from the East to ...Normandy ? Why did he order the second tank battalion of Panzer Lehr that was moving to the East on June 6 ,to return ...to...

If that was what Hitler was thinking ,explain me why he kept the majority of his mobile forces OUTSIDE the Pas de Calais .PzL, 12 SS and 21 Pz were located left of the Seine . And, which were the 2 PzD in the Pas de Calais ?

PH (8 December 1941 ) and Barbarossa did not affect the Atlantic convoys in 1941 : PQ convoys were very limited ,besides the US Atlantic Fleet was not going to the Pacific in 1942. The decrease of British imports in 1944 was decided by Britain and the US ,independently of the number of operating...

NO : Hitler did not think that the main strike would happen in the Pas de Calais, besides his reserves were located in Normandy . 15th Army was mostly ''bodenständige 'divisions who were useless in Normandy ,which was one of the reasons they were in thee Pas de Calais .

Less supply losses and less losses of MV do NOT mean more imports : it was not Doenitz who decided how much and what would be imported . 1940 : supply and food imports : 41,4 million ton . 1941 : 29,7 million ton 1942 : 22,1 million ton 1943 : 24,3 million ton 1944 :22,8 million ton . In...

Approximately is useless :a submarine had to know where exactly the convoy was and would be . And let's not forget the escorts, speed ,ammunition ,fuel ,...