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Old 07-27-20, 05:19 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Sniper297 View Post
I'd have to hunt through SINK 'EM ALL to find the exact year, but best I recall the "Alka-Seltzer" bubble decoy (copied from the German "pillenwerfer") wasn't available until 1943 or 1944. Stock game has them available at the beginning, although you only get 10 per patrol and they only last 10 minutes.
it was late in the war...possibly even 1945.
the delay was in the testing and initial implementation: new device that required BuShips to reverse engineer another opening the pressure hull.

i am not home at the moment otherwise i would look it up.
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