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tater · 07-07-07, 02:02 PM

The next confirmed DG sinking of a CLAIM over 1000 tons was August 19th, 1944. there was another claim never confirmed. BTW, the confirmed claim for 2000 tons? An 800 ton ship, not sunk, but she was run aground.

Bowfin claimed a torpedoed 1000 tonner sunk afterwards with a DG in september... the actual ship was 245 tons.

(seeing a pattern? With rare exceptions they aren't ever even attacking anything much over 500 tons with a DG, even if they thought it was 4000 (look at a real ONI manual and it's not surprising, we have it VERY easy in terms of IDing ships, it's a wonder they were as accurate as they were given the non-standardized nature of jap shipping).

OK, scanned through the end of 1944. No more confirmed sinkings of anything over 1000 tons wih a DG. None. So from Dec. 7, 1941, to Dec. 31, 1944 we have ONE confirmed sinking of a ship substantially over 1000 tons with a DG. There are maybe 10-20 claims for ships in the 1-2000 ton range, but from the confirmed examples, they are frequently gorssly wrong in their tonnage estimates.

Yeah, DGs were the wonder weapons of the sub war, they sank a few thousand tons out of how many MILLIONS sunk with torpedos?

07-07-07, 02:02 PM	#57
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	The next confirmed DG sinking of a CLAIM over 1000 tons was August 19th, 1944. there was another claim never confirmed. BTW, the confirmed claim for 2000 tons? An 800 ton ship, not sunk, but she was run aground. Bowfin claimed a torpedoed 1000 tonner sunk afterwards with a DG in september... the actual ship was 245 tons. (seeing a pattern? With rare exceptions they aren't ever even attacking anything much over 500 tons with a DG, even if they thought it was 4000 (look at a real ONI manual and it's not surprising, we have it VERY easy in terms of IDing ships, it's a wonder they were as accurate as they were given the non-standardized nature of jap shipping). OK, scanned through the end of 1944. No more confirmed sinkings of anything over 1000 tons wih a DG. None. So from Dec. 7, 1941, to Dec. 31, 1944 we have ONE confirmed sinking of a ship substantially over 1000 tons with a DG. There are maybe 10-20 claims for ships in the 1-2000 ton range, but from the confirmed examples, they are frequently gorssly wrong in their tonnage estimates. Yeah, DGs were the wonder weapons of the sub war, they sank a few thousand tons out of how many MILLIONS sunk with torpedos? Last edited by tater; 07-07-07 at 02:13 PM.