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Originally Posted by TorpX
I'm reading UNDERSEA WARRIOR, by Don Keith. In it, he mentions that O'Kane and another man had to "cobble together" a TBT on the Wahoo. So it is possible, even likely, that many US boats lacked this item on their first patrols. I thought this was kind of interesting.
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that could also be in reference to how each CO did things.On some boats the CO manned the TBT or scope for targeting others like O'Kane allowed the XO to man the scope during the attack and allowed them to choose when to fire as they felt this method allowed the CO to have a better grasp of what the boat was doing.Kind depended on the skipper and how well he trusted the TDC data and his reports and his crew.On the scope your kind of deaf to other important and less focused on data form your crew inside the boat.Have the XO man the scope to keep better control of a fulid situation then he can have tunnel vision and the CO can focus on command and control.
The guys that thought outside the box like O'Kane did not think that the CO had the complete picture of what was going both on inside and outside the boat while manning the scopes during an attack.So they preferred to stand often time on the ladder between the control room and the attack room.Some even sat on the floor with their feet hanging down into the control room.
Also they had to develop tactics which is what I cobbled together to mean.The TDC had never been used in actual battle so you have that to consider how things "work" and how they really work.
Anyway having typed all of that I see that meant you make a working TBT to replace one not available or damaged that would be true early war I'm sure that they had fewer spares.