[Admiral Halsey]

Originally Posted by jscharpf

Ok I know you're all probably saying "why would you bother with the Mark-10 torpedo when you have access to the better ones right from the start?".

Well, I don't have a good answer lol, other than trying to simulate a situation where I was given a sub at the beginning of my career and they had some left over Mark-10 torpedoes.

Anyway, I loaded the back end of my sub with Mark-10's and today I was hunting a lone merchant somewhere in that little pocket of water near Hiroshima early in the war (still late 1941). I scored a hit with one of my main (front) torpedoes and was just sitting around waiting for it to sink (it was dead in the water but not sinking, just listing heavily), so I thought let's try out our rear torpedoes..

So I turned my sub around to get a straight shot, fired the first one, "donk".. bounced off.. second,... "donk".. bounced off.. third, fourth.. same thing..

The only thing I'm not sure about is if I had enough distance. I was very close.. but then I surfaced and killed him with my deck gun..

So I'm just wondering, was it a strange coincidence that all 4 bounced off? I think I was aboutg 500 yards away but perhaps I misjudged, since I didn't really re-check the distance after turning..

Jeff

Hmm... you probably were to close as I don't think i've ever had a mark 10 dud before. You sure you those weren't mark 14's?