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Originally Posted by CaptainCox
As for the historic accuracy regarding the "Drum" the game is well bugged!
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USS Drum was the first of the Gato class fleet submarines to be completed, and the only one in service at the start of World War II. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard laid her keel on September 11, 1940 and launched her on May 12, 1941. She was commissioned on November 1, 1941.
Drum made 13 patrols in the Pacific during World War II. She sank 15 ships, for a total of 80,580 tons, ranking her 20th for total ships sunk, and 8th for tonnage. After the war ended, Drum was decommissioned on February 16, 1946
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http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/1056/drum.htm
I guess those 13 patrols was not with the same Skipper, but the boat was not taken out of action due to "the class of sub you have will be decomissoned" in 1942 like the game does.
@letterboy1, could you please post that date here...after you get retired of course. |
The USS Drum is now resting on land at Mobile, AL alongside the Battleship
Alabama. When I first saw her, she was in the water but the tail assembly
was being eatin away by rust so they had to drydock her...
JIM