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tater · 08-19-07, 01:08 PM

Blair isn't at issue, it was mentioned in passing regarding accounts of specific long range torpedo shoots by specific boats, not as Blair's opinion regarding tactics/doctrine. Your post suggested that such shoots (beyond 2000 yards) never happened, though perhaps you misspoke. In fact they frequently happened.

BTW, a quick scan of Alden (US Submarine Attacks During World War II, NIP, 1989) of a couple months in 1942 shows fewer than 5% of attacks were single fish. May '44 it was 9 out of 120 attacks (7.5%).

<EDIT> Jan 43 (pulling random months here) 5 attacks out of 65 (7.6%) were single fish. 19 were 2 fish, 21 attacks were three fish. 20 were 4 or more fish.

Clearly salvoes were the norm. Even at longer ranges the rate of multiple fish fired per attack would have to be vastly lower than normal for it to be any less than "frequent" at long ranges (since the average looks to be 90% or more in salvoes).

So they USUALLY fired salvoes, possibly just as much or more over 2000 yards as under 2000 yards.

(neco-man?)

tater

08-19-07, 01:08 PM	#63
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	Blair isn't at issue, it was mentioned in passing regarding accounts of specific long range torpedo shoots by specific boats, not as Blair's opinion regarding tactics/doctrine. Your post suggested that such shoots (beyond 2000 yards) never happened, though perhaps you misspoke. In fact they frequently happened. BTW, a quick scan of Alden (US Submarine Attacks During World War II, NIP, 1989) of a couple months in 1942 shows fewer than 5% of attacks were single fish. May '44 it was 9 out of 120 attacks (7.5%). <EDIT> Jan 43 (pulling random months here) 5 attacks out of 65 (7.6%) were single fish. 19 were 2 fish, 21 attacks were three fish. 20 were 4 or more fish. Clearly salvoes were the norm. Even at longer ranges the rate of multiple fish fired per attack would have to be vastly lower than normal for it to be any less than "frequent" at long ranges (since the average looks to be 90% or more in salvoes). So they USUALLY fired salvoes, possibly just as much or more over 2000 yards as under 2000 yards. (neco-man?) tater Last edited by tater; 08-19-07 at 01:24 PM.