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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980
Yep, typically they removed the two aft torpedo roll off racks(stopped using the tubes to save weight and to eliminate the flash caused by poweder charges when fired, giving away their position at night) to save weight, some would carry depth charges or just use the extra room for more weapony. Kept two torpedoes in case ran into anything worthy of a torpedo.
Find it interesting after stopped using old Mark 8 torpedoes, they were using Mark 13, aerial torpedoes . Assume becase they were lighter/shorter than Mark 15 etc but had a nice punch still.
Look up PT-658 on youtube, its a tour of the vessel. While it's a higgins PT but seen videos of elcos with similar gun/rocket/torpedo layout.
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I think we can do that ,, visually and in the UPC subtract 2 tubes,, your call.