SteveThePurpleCat t1_iwikdmj wrote
Reply to comment by Jaggedmallard26 in TIL that the civilian sailors of the U.S. Merchant Marine had a higher casualty rate during World War II than any branch of the armed forces. by p38-lightning
US admirals were famously Anglophobic, they actively rejected any advice from the British rather than just ignored it.
Convoys? Anti-sub escorts? Zig-Zag? Turning lights and radios off? Pfft, that's just for the weak English.
Hang on, where did all of our Merchants go? Oh, to bits you say...
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