destroyers avoiding torpedoes

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Originally Posted by zepo

Oh and as for the down the throat kill I have done it only once at the Aegean sea with a VII type if i remember well.It was amazing and I was thinking that a kill like that was a little bit fake,you know very action movie style.I dont know if it was posible in real life.(It is the kill when a dd hunts you,its right behind you and you fire a torpedoe from your stern tubes right?)

In the Pacific it was often literally down the throat. A bow tube shot with both ships closing fast head-to-head. A tough shot to make since you aiming at the very narrow bow aspect of a destroyer instead of at it's broadside.