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Line 63: ===Operational consequences=== [[Alan Goodrich Kirk\|Vice Admiral Kirk]] of the US Navy immediately realised the huge damage E-boats could inflict on slow-moving landing craft with minimal defences and feared that the German success in Lyme Bay could be repeated on D-day, with disastrous consequences. On 4 May 1944 he sent a signal to [[Bertram Ramsay\|Admiral Ramsay]] of the Royal Navy arguing for heavy aerial and naval bombardment of Cherbourg: {{Blockquote\|text="In my opinion the E-boats must be destroyed or driven from the Cherbourg area, prior to D-day. The only successful defense against the E-boat is to sink it before it can reach an attack position".\|author=Vice Admiral Kirk{{sfn\|Simpson\|2021\|p=222}}}} ===Other consequences===

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