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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
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Best bet is to run submerged by day and recharge at night.
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Very true here. Reading the diary of the USS Sculpin, the captain submerged by day to avoid aircraft. This started the day she left port....December 1941, a few days after Pearl Harbor was hit. In fact, reading about it, there was a lot of aircraft friend and foe. Sometimes the friend was a foe do to misidentification. Stay submerged about 100 feet and do the sonar patrol as they did. Aircraft will not bother you. |
Unless you were USS Barb, in which case you hauled tail everywhere on the ocean on the surface, running high periscope watch all the way to extend your scan radius. They submerged only when sighted by aircraft. At the end of the war when multiple subs returned with all torpedoes because they were unable to find targets, Barb was busily sinking lots of ships and a railroad train for good measure.
