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Originally Posted by Drebbel
I Assume the un-readable text is about some deck gun action ? 
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BTW: It took 2 torpedoes and 16 5 inch shells to sink the O 19 not to mention the placed charges. Of course, that might have been because the Dutch sub was lodged on a reef. There is a film somerwhere around documenting the incident. Anyone know where I could find that?
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Actually just the transfer of the crew is filmed mainly. Also the submarine was never sunk, I have a 1952 movie that shows her still sitting on the reef with minimal visible damage ! |
Low tide? I am guessing here. charges blew holes toward the bottom. cant see em. Torpedoes hit the reef close into sub but not sub. as for the 16 5 inch shells, theres got be some holes somewhere. High tide when action took place and the sub settled down a bit. Low tide you can see it. Unless of course the skipper of the COD filed an erroneous after action report.
PS. You cant see the letters of my last post from a grey a backround?
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The dutch have almost the same story but more detail on what happened to the sub.
10 July 1945: The attempt to pull
O 19 free is repeated but without success once more, so the
USS Cod takes
O 19's crew on board and demolition charges are set on board the disabled submarine. The extremely secret radar and sonar is also destroyed. Two torpedoes are fired and destroy the aft, 16 shells of the 5-inch deck gun finishing off the job of denying her usefulness to the enemy. The
USS Cod takes the crew to Subic Bay in the Philippines.
Link to web dutch web site:
http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/boats/boat_o19.htm