B-24 Vs U-Boat

ltdan
Would it be correct to say that by mid-1943 Coastal Command could send out far more aircraft to search for U-boats than in 1942, but, on the other hand, there were fewer German fighters deployed in that theatre to oppose them than in 1942?

 

I do not know the exact numbers of the planes used. But from the war diary of the naval warfare command you can see that there were always too few
Here is a quote from Admiral Doenitz from 1942:
"But the airplane is probably an enemy for the submarine, which disturbs the submarine, but which can never disable it - just as a crow can never fight a mole as long as the dear God has assigned different media to both."

DIFFICILE EST SATIRAM NON SCRIBERE!!

 

Allied Airforce Attacks Against German U-Boats 1943

 

Yes, my great uncle's plane a B-24 Liberator with the 19th Anti-Submarine Squadron engaged and was shot down by U-558 on July 20th, 1943 over the Bay Of Biscay.