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Originally Posted by Mittelwaechter
The external reserves were stored dry, so it shouldn't have been a problem to store a G7a FAT or LUT in the deck containers.
I don't know if they did it.
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Per the KTB's that I mentioned in the original post, later in the war they listed TI FaT I's in external storage. Granted it was only for Type IXd's, since by then (with the exception of IXd's and IXc's heading to southern waters) they had stopped storing externals (BTW: this was because depth charges were causing the compartments to flood severely changing the buoyancy and trim of the boat, not allied air power
per se). IXd's would imply Type IXc's could as well, and I assume Type VII's as well, since the storage compartments seemed to function the same way between the two types. Same implications for the LuT torpedoes.
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Originally Posted by LGN1
My guess still is that probably it was considered unpractical in the beginning, but later it turned out to be practical (unpractical according to peace-time regulations, but in war-time possible).
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This is kind of aligned with my theory: In combat, you do what you need to kill enemy and survive. If that means you have to put a G7a in place where a bad support point is, you do it. If that means you have to store a G7e in the rear compartment, you do it. And doubly so if the Kaleun says so. So I think this falls under that "practicality" umbrella.
This is based in part on my non-combat service in the 1990's US Army. There were plenty of times I can remember being told to do something that didn't make any sense or wasn't in some manual somewhere that way. I often got to told to do this by a sergeant, and the choices were to do it or do it after I did some push-ups. I chose to avoid the push-ups.
