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Originally Posted by aanker
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Edit: RR is correct about staying on the surface, however I was following early war orders to submerge during daylight hours. This protocol was soon changed.
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Ah! But the policy was changed because brave sub commanders disobeyed those orders, knowing it was better to be alive and begging forgiveness than dead and considered a hero. Of course, in the process of saving their necks they developed a lot more contacts and sank more tonnage than those who merely obeyed orders.
Lockwood was a smart enough cookie to see a good thing when it was served to him on a silver platter. But make no mistake. It was the sub commanders disobeying his orders who changed the paradygm.
Hiding in wartime is not safe. It's more dangerous than doing your job.
Patton said it best "The best way to deal with fear of losing your life is to make the enemy more afraid of losing his."