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Originally Posted by razark
I recall reading that the early skippers tried sonar only attacks at the beginning of the war. It's what they practiced before the war. Having an exposed periscope spotted during a training exercise was likely to result in a bad career path for the skipper.
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That agrees 100% with what I read, but it was even worse than that. The training exercises included aircraft. The submarine had to travel down a predetermined corridor and the aircraft new the exact position of that corridor. With training like that it's no wonder the captains that started the war where overly cautious.