10-17-15, 07:48 AM
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Ace of the Deep 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Colorado
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Originally Posted by Al Lowe
It's late '42, and my current boat is a Gato class. I started my career in Dec. '41 in S-18, after moving to Australia, I was given command of USS Pickeral, then USS Drum, my current command. For whatever reason, I never got the Narwhal. One of the few times I've not been given command of it.
Not that I mind all that much. I prefer the 10 tubes of the Gato and similar classes. Though I do miss the 6" guns on the Narwhal.  |
It may well be that Gato class subs were not available outside of Pearl Harbor until later in the war.
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