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Originally Posted by Ducimus
I never understood why the Navy would use old boats as target ships. Now i think i do. Sinking the Tautog as a target would have been a better ending for that boat then the scrappers torch. Being sunk as a target would have given the boat something akin to "a soliders death" as it were.
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That's actually a good way of looking at it. Almost as if she's being laid to rest at sea, like so many other heroes of that war.