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Originally Posted by Corsair
I would think that in reality the nav plotting was done more often on sea maps than on pieces of paper... As far as attack is concerned, from my readings I have the feeling they didn't do any plotting at all...  |
I don't see the practice mentioned a lot by the skippers in their books/memoirs. But from the detailed post-mortems and patrol reports where the positions and counter-movements of the sub and target were plotted in great detail, along with at what point in the tracks torpedos were fired (they sometimes even plotted the path of the torpedo) hits/misses recorded and final ship sinking locations...
Someone had to be taking those notes and doing some dead-reckoning plotting in real time as the situation was evolving.