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Oh yes. Definatly a keeper. |
This thread just keeps getting better and better, some really nice additions :yep::up:
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Maybe it's been posted already but I did not find reference to this in the forum.
The San Francisco Maritime National Park has a web page the includes an extensive training manual the describes WWII fleet submarine functionality. It was a publication made just after the war. So if you enjoy reading about the main hyrdraulic and lubrication systems and standard watch routines of WWII fleet subs, take a look: http://www.maritime.org/fleetsub/index.htm |
I'm surprised you couldn't find a reference here, as it is the standard title we all use anytime any question comes up.:sunny:
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To compliment the History Channel's torpedo show
I just finished reading the single best article I've ever read regarding the faulty torpedoes on the US Sub Vets of WWII website. Click the link and select "Faulty Ordinance to read the whole thing. I'll quote a small part of it:
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I reproduce this in full from the newsletter of the USS Tinosa, the sub that blew the lid off the Mark 14 scandal. You wanted details about US sub operations, here you go. I apologize for all the nightmares you will experience over the next several weeks:
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RR,
...after I take a dump:yep: ....biscuits and gravy for me please! Great read! Thanks! Anything mechanical and sequenced I just eat up...no pun intended!:up: |
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Well done.
This is the type of thing that should have been a part of the games original documentation. It would have answered alot of the 'noob' questions right off the bat. |
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I read about it in the book "Submarine!" the passage goes something like this (can't get it exact, my friend is reading the book now): "We have tried to go beneath the area where the water becomes much cooler, and so evade soundgear detection, but we've used up this 'velvet' long ago. The escorts have formed a tight ring around Trigger. We try to go through the hole in the ring, left by the last escort doing its depth charge run, but two more escorts always dart into place to fill the gap. We cannot go any deeper and we dare not increase speed, for fear of attracting a more accurate attack. Sometimes instead of dropping their charges, they make a dry run, as if to say 'We know you're down there ol' boy. Might as well surface and get it over with.' We all know that there will come a point when our batteries are out and our O2 canisters are empty. But we have a contingency in case of this event. Trigger will never surrender. We'll come up in the darkest hour of the night, all hands at the gun stations. It will be mighty dangerous for anything short of a full-fledged destroyer to get in our way. ... Finally, a gap! Trigger darts through. They do not hear us. Four hours later, we surfaced. Though the air was hot and humid, it did not bother us. After being in 124 degree heat for 36 hours it seems to be nothing but pure, undiluted Joy." Good post, I feel like the US sub war in the Pacific doesn't get enough honor. |
"Another US submarine (whos name eludes me at the moment), endured a 48 hour depth charging before the escorts broke off its attack. The captain of this boat, with his sub low on batteries, and oxygen, was seriously considering surfacing and fighting with the deck gun. Thankfully the japanese destroyer broke off its attack before this plan of action was carried out."
Could the submarine you're talking about be the USS Puffer? They were down, "...a record thirty seven hours and forty-five minutes." This was around August-December 1943. I found this information in Volume 1 of Silent Service by Clay Blair, pages 470-471. |
awesome read man, thanks for taking the time.
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I originally missed this post but I must say nicely written Ducimus!
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Hello there, I'm new to SH but find it totally phenom. I like to think I'm fairly knowledgable about WW2 but never realise how much the US sub fleet endoured. You guys know your ****. I knew all about the atlantic war and the major battles in the pacific (midway, guadal canal etc.) but playing SH4 and reading your posts has made me research and it was pretty awful for the sub crews of the US fleet out there.
As I said Im knew to the game, does anyone have 1 particular tip that might help me progress? Cheers Lofty! |
Hello there, I'm new to SH but find it totally phenom. I like to think I'm fairly knowledgable about WW2 but never realise how much the US sub fleet endoured. You guys know your ****. I knew all about the atlantic war and the major battles in the pacific (midway, guadal canal etc.) but playing SH4 and reading your posts has made me research and it was pretty awful for the sub crews of the US fleet out there.
As I said Im knew to the game, does anyone have 1 particular tip that might help me progress? Cheers Lofty! |
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