To sink the 1,314 ships in the Pacific in WW2, an amazing 14,748 torpedoes were fired
Take heart all you 100% realism players! That's roughly one ship for every 11 torpedoes fired! I hate missing, but if you are sinking two ships per patrol you're about fleet average!
Of course, you're probably doing much worse early war with duds, so you'll have to step up your game late war! Info found here: Ahoy - Mac's Web Log |
I recently went through the statistics in the back of Roscoe's US Submarine Operations of WWII, and while I never totaled the torpedo and ship numbers, your figures tell the same story. |
It's a big ocean.
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very niiice!!!
like these documentaries.
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Wow, they even "have" a Tang crew member! :ping:
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Sweet video! Thanks!
Slowly making my way through it. At about minute :35, the narrator tallies the 1942 results: abysmal with about 1/2 ship sunk per patrol! |
I recently finished reading LUCK OF THE DRAW, by Capt. C. Kenneth Ruiz. In it he comments on JANAC assessments: Quote:
While other authors made critical comments about the matter, these are the sharpest I've come across. They strongly suggest that the Silent Service was short changed and sinkings were, in fact, significantly undercounted. |
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However negatively the Silent Service felt about the report - concerning criticism, they were unbelievably (to me) but perhaps unremarkably...well...silent. Though I have noticed in the "Silent Service" TV series, RADM Dykers, the host/narrator, often uses figures in opposition to the JANAC report. He will usually preface with something like "According to my figures..." even though the JANAC report had been out for well over a decade by then. Perhaps collectively the WWII veterans chose to simply ignore the report. As time marches on, matters such as these will become increasingly difficult to distinguish! |
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Quite so. |
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