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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
High periscope watch was one of the brilliant strategies developed by Eugene Fluckey to increase his search radius. He calculated that high periscope almost doubled the area of sea surface he could search each day without using radar. Reference his book "Thunder Below" which I previously quoted on this same matter when some questioned the high periscope watch's authenticity.
Partly as a result of using high periscope watch and by his yo-yoing strategy of staying on the surface at cruising speed every possible second, Fluckey, whose career started in March or April 1944, a time when many boats were returning to base full of torpedoes finding no targets, garnered more decorations than any submarine of the war. But he was more proud of the one medal that was not awarded to any crew member of Barb: the purple heart.
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I'm reading Thunder Below right now and Admiral Fluckey sure comes off as a very smart, inovative skipper. I'm about halfway through it and I'll say this, he had some grapefruits.
