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Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)
That's not a screw up. That believe it or not is historically accurate, to what point I'm unsure. But the Conning Tower was shaped like that at the beginning of the war.
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Technically speaking, the 20mm AA gun wasn't mounted on the aft part of the fairwater in any fleet sub until it was cut down, starting in 1942. Until then, the standard AA armament was either a single .50 or .30 cal machine gun. However, the playable .50 cal MG in SH4 doesn't work all that great (there's issues with the animations, and it's missing its ironsights), so ATM we're stuck with the 20mm from the war's beginning.
USS Gato with .50 (or possibly .30) cal machine gun, 1 August 1942:
