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Type IXD2's 23700 NM does not compute!
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No that it's the Bible or anything but Clay Blair's The Hunters 1939-1942 says 24000 miles and he specifies that the IXD had double the fuel capacity as the IXC.
In my copy it's on page 501, in the footnote related to the first mention of U-177.
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