alright chiefs, boatswainmates, and capts.
On a reload, I managed to make it back to Midway safely, without doing scuffles with HKs and Zeros.
On my second patrol from Pearl, my new objective was Caroline islands patrol nothing fancy.
here are 2 interesting findings from both experiences:
- On my way back to Midway, staying out of the aircrafts looks make you encounter less if not none. On my way I met with only 2 this time, my efficient radioman takes the credit. Without even finding out the type of plane, I order 45 on flank and on average, a 60 second dive was achieved. So, stay out of planes eyes.. I stay down for like an hour, engines off sometimes wait the night to come out and sometimes hump it if I get too bored.
- On my way to Carolines, I decided to do a mileage count vs fuel usage.
Starting from Pearl, I picked a shallow spot exactly 4055 km away from start. Ordered speed lock to 10kt, and TC.
I arrived after a tonne of radio reports and CincPac reports falling to my lap
On doing a fuel check, I discover I got 82% of fuel.
Doing the math, a 1% of fuel covers 238.5 Km @ 10-11 kts speed. Of course in reality, one has to consider drifting, crosswind, course adjustments happening at 2048x
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So a full range clocked @ 10-11kts would be 23850 km.
This is inaccurate
according to wikipedia
but wth, if its broke why fix it?
I guess its up to my navigator to tell is where we duck and rise
Speaking of which, whats a typical surface/submerge interval in hostile waters, based on your experiences or references. Could someone nominate real novels WWII-era? cuz I could use the reading