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Originally Posted by harishrajan96
Hello I am new to this thread,
i was wondering that how would a submarine(WW2) get rid of garbage and human waste in the sea...
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did us submarines in ww2 use the "wolfpack" tactic ??
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Garbage:put in sacks, weighed them down, tossed over side every evening. Human waste, my understanding is they had a sanitary tank tha the enlisted toilet flowed to. which was blown into the sea when full or on a routine, think it was up to skipper.Also, I believe I read in the book Maru Killer(about USS Seahorse) that the officer's john just went directly into the sea.
Yes, starting in late 1943 US subs did us pack tactics, but never on the scale of German U Boats in the Atlantic.Usually, US packs were 3 boats operating in an area, one made contact would send out a contact report, they would try to coordinate the attack, let one attack and draw attention of escorts, then others would attack. This tactic became much more common in late 1944 until the end of the war.Like I said, it was never on the scale of ATO, usually 3 or 4 boats in a pack.I remember reading about 8 us boats coming in on a convoy in the east china sea in october 44, largest wolfpack in PTO I have read about.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=206109
Unfortunately SH 4 does but I am working on fixing that as much as possible within limitations of the game.