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Originally Posted by nodlew
Odd that the Americans, while disdaining submarines and submarine tactics, would have developed such awesome submarines ready for deployment in war before we were even attacked. This was not our modus operandi in that era. We didn't plan for the next war. Maybe WWI taught someone something that began to alter that passive stance.
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I don't think we disdained such tactics considering the long American history with submarines. The
Turtle made a submerged attack on a British warship during the Revolutionary War The Confederate
Hunley on a Union ship in the Civil War. Officially, there have been submarines in the US Navy since the
Holland VI was purchased in April 1900. This marks the 'official' birth date of the US Navy's Submarine Force anyway. Plus, some US subs were based in the Azores during WWI and occasionally tangled with U-Boats during that conflict.
But it was called the "Silent Service" and didn't get the press the glamorous fly boys got.
