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Originally Posted by LukeFF
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Originally Posted by Xantrokoles
The hatch between the command room and the radio room in the type IX interior was in real life always opened.
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Was it? Who says? I'm betting that at the first site of any enemy the boat got buttoned up tighter than a sardine tin. |
Well, with the hatch closed it would be hard for the sonarman to communicate with personnel in the control room, so in that sense it would make sense to keep the hatch open. The sonarmen also wore their headset only on their right ear in order to better communicate with the rest of the crew. Now that would make for a cool mod as well.  |
That is a fascinating point. On the one hand, the idea of having watertight doors is to keep the water out, and once you have a breach it's too late to try to close them. On the other hand, as you say, how would they communicate? In the American boats the sensor stations were all in the control room and the conning tower, so the question doesn't arise. The German kaluens might have concluded that if the hull was opened anywhere it was too late for the whole boat, so why worry about it?
And as for worrying about it, I've already said that it's too cool not to use, so my debating with myself is pretty much pointless.
