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Thanks RF,
that's one of the reasons that i had read about.
I was thinking more on the lines of
German destroyer radar was very unreliable, Bey was primarily a destroyer man.
did he let this cloud his judgment on the use of radar on Scharnhorst.
Regards
Richard

No doubt this has been asked before, but can someone explain why the kriegsmarine were reticent in using radar ? I'm thinking in particular about Scharnhorsts last sortie, in perpetual near darkness in an arctic winter surely radar could have helped the Scharnhorst find JW55B. By 1943 the RN was usi...

What about HMS Dasher,
at anchor, most of the crew below decks getting changed for
shore leave and then she explodes and sinks.