Tankers as priority targets

Rockin Robbins · 07-09-17, 07:19 AM

I was looking through this list. Keep in mind that this is a list compiled by the submariners themselves and the facts in the list may be in conflict with official accounts. I'd believe the submariners as default and be right most of the time I think.

There are clues here. First of all, the order that stood out in the author's mind was the order of April 13, 1944 "Until further notice give fleet destroyers priority over maru types as targets for submarine attacks." And later is the observation that USS Flasher sank more tankers than any other submarine in the war.

Well, I happen to have an autographed copy of "War Patrols of the USS Flasher" by William R McCants. If anyone would say something about orders to sink tankers, it will be in this book. It's hardcover paper, so no digital searching there, but then you can't autograph a digital file...... I'd say I'd rather have what I have.
Stand by. This will take awhile.

It appears the "Remember When" index has vanished from the Internet. Paul Wittmer entrusted Charles Hinman of the Bowfin Museum in Hawaii to perpetuate his site. Hinman made a few half-heated attempts to reformat the whole shebang, never really did any meaningful work there and then abandoned the domain, www.silentservice.us. What a shameful act. Hope he is no longer working for the Bowfin Museum. He doesn't deserve to work for an organization honoring US submarine veterans, having abandoned a sacred trust.

I believe I have the entire US Submarine Veterans of World War II website, which has also died, archived on one of my hard drives. I'm thinking bringing all that home to Subsim might be appropriate, especially if we allow public browsing of these dead websites by the submariners themselves. They deserve to live again.

07-09-17, 07:19 AM	#7
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	I was looking through this list. Keep in mind that this is a list compiled by the submariners themselves and the facts in the list may be in conflict with official accounts. I'd believe the submariners as default and be right most of the time I think. There are clues here. First of all, the order that stood out in the author's mind was the order of April 13, 1944 "Until further notice give fleet destroyers priority over maru types as targets for submarine attacks." And later is the observation that USS Flasher sank more tankers than any other submarine in the war. Well, I happen to have an autographed copy of "War Patrols of the USS Flasher" by William R McCants. If anyone would say something about orders to sink tankers, it will be in this book. It's hardcover paper, so no digital searching there, but then you can't autograph a digital file...... I'd say I'd rather have what I have. Stand by. This will take awhile. It appears the "Remember When" index has vanished from the Internet. Paul Wittmer entrusted Charles Hinman of the Bowfin Museum in Hawaii to perpetuate his site. Hinman made a few half-heated attempts to reformat the whole shebang, never really did any meaningful work there and then abandoned the domain, www.silentservice.us. What a shameful act. Hope he is no longer working for the Bowfin Museum. He doesn't deserve to work for an organization honoring US submarine veterans, having abandoned a sacred trust. I believe I have the entire US Submarine Veterans of World War II website, which has also died, archived on one of my hard drives. I'm thinking bringing all that home to Subsim might be appropriate, especially if we allow public browsing of these dead websites by the submariners themselves. They deserve to live again. __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS Last edited by Rockin Robbins; 07-09-17 at 09:10 AM.