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Originally Posted by John Channing
Later on, when escorts were more plentiful (ie after the US entered the war and started taking the U-Boat threat seriously), there were Hunter/Killer groups assigned to the convoys whose job was to hang back and, once the regular escorts detected a Sub, charge in and stay with it until they killed them.
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The British called them support groups. The HK name gives the unfortunate impression that they were out there looking for U-boats on their own, which of course they weren't as that would be a big fat waste of time, just as it was when they tried that before starting the convoy system.
I'll stop spamming the thread now. Sorry.