[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

Interesting. You know (kind of ironic) of all the sub books have read, have yet to read Lockwood's, but it is in the planes. True but all of the missions, even with less than perfect FM sonar, they made it through and home without being taken out by mines. Current career and assigned to Sea of Japan in June 1945, have AI torpedo firing subs worked in, (testing to see if they work) that will be in the area...can we say wolfpack or in USN parlance of the time, "Coordinated Attack Group".

actually, we lost quite a few boats to mines.
the prevailing wisdom, after the war (JANAC), was that if the enemy could not confirm anti-submarine activities in the vicinity of a patrol-loss, the suspected cause was mines. At least eight of fifty-two, possibly more. so many unknowns.