Popular accounts often make German U-boats and American Pacific submarines stand for the whole underwater war. The response points instead to Italian, British, Soviet, Japanese, and other Allied submarine operations. Each service worked with different boats, theatres, targets, and operational constraints. Recovering those campaigns is necessary to understand why anti-submarine warfare became one of the Second World War's most complicated and varied contests.
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The submarine war extended beyond Germany and America
Focusing on German and American successes hides the distinct submarine campaigns fought by several other navies.