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Old 05-28-07, 08:59 AM   #631
perisher
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Originally Posted by MudMarine
Manual Navigation for Silent Service.
I will use the in game map just to get a noon fix and midnight to get a star fix and navigate using patrol area maps. Some for the original SH are posted at that site. I know they would not match. I understand that even the charts used by the WII submariners where inaccurate.
The charts used in WW2 were almost as accurate as todays for ordinary "surface" navigation purposes. What they lacked was bottom detail.
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