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Originally Posted by propbeanie

yeah. The passage of time though, also, in that they took five minutes basically to fire the four torpedoes. He didn't state what the range was when he started, but he IDs them as DD at 522, and it's 33 minutes before he shoots his first torpedo. Of course, he does state they were coming in on Silent Running, at about 1 knot speed, so add the time up (this is too much math - my head hurts!!!) and you might get close, but five minutes at one knot should be about 500 feet, correct... ?? let's round it up to 600, for 200 yards. Plus the 300, so he started shooting at 500 yards... kind of close to begin with - of course, I barely made it out of high school, mind you... so that would be 33x500= about 5600-5800 yards when he recognizes them as DD... ?? but I might be (probably are) way off in the calculation department...

They were first spotted at 8000 yards. He went 6 knots but doesn't say for how long. Even at 30 minutes that is 6000 yards. It was about an hour and 45 minutes before they fired the first fish.

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