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Originally Posted by aaronblood
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Originally Posted by tedhealy
An interesting anecdote from Dick O'Kane's book, Clear the Bridge!, about his command of the USS Tang.
pg 161
I still did not feel that a deck gun, in this age, was of much value to an attack sumbarine. During construction I had argued to at least have our gun moved aft of the conning tower. If an enemy ship had comparable or greater speed, it was axiomatic that she'd be able to outgun us. Our own gun would be used for defense, shooting astern.
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In a later chapter O'Kane also mentions that he was glad they didn't listen to him about mounting the gun on the back... but at that time I believe he was trying to creep in close to a reef to rescue some downed pilots and he found he was using it more for suppression and covering fire. |
Yeah, he does warm up to the deck gun as an offensive weapon a bit later on, but still his thinking on it seems relevant.