When aaroblood, gutted and myself cobbled together the procedure we were inspired by Morton and O'Kane's mastery of the TDC and their inventive use of it in their attack strategies. But they left no precise set of instructions because they hadn't thought there would be a bunch of crazy people (us) using a fancy computer simulator to model World War II submarines.
After aaronblood and gutted drummed the principles of a U-Boat attack into my feeble brain, it was my job to adapt that to the unique qualities of the Silent Hunter 4 American TDC, which I did. We had discussions about what name to use and finally decided to name it after a famous US sub skipper of the war. Since Dick O'Kane's genius was the inspiration and historical justification for using a constant bearing technique with an American submarine, we named the method after him. We have never claimed that this is an imitation of any attack that Dick O'Kane ever made. It is only named in honor of him.
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