Question about Balao Class and torpedoes

[BigWalleye]

Thanks, aanker! Your post got my mind working. The HSNA website http://hnsa.org/doc/subreports.htm has digital copies of the original patrol reports for most WW2 submarine patrols. Reports for all 10 patrols of USS Balao (SS-285) are available there. This is a digital image of the original reports, digitized from a microfilm copy and printed in the original typewriter font just as it was typed by the yeoman in the Balao's office. This is as primary a source as anyone could demand. The title page of the first report reads:

U.S.S. BALAO

REPORT OF

FIRST WAR PATROL

From: 25 July 1943 - To: 13 September 1943


Since the historical Balao began its first war patrol on 25 July 1943, and was commissioned and worked up under wartime conditions, it is unlikely that it could have been available more than a few days prior to that date.

[Red October1984]

So it's a game error then...

[aanker]

Originally Posted by BigWalleye

Thanks, aanker! Your post got my mind working. The HSNA website http://hnsa.org/doc/subreports.htm has digital copies of the original patrol reports for most WW2 submarine patrols. Reports for all 10 patrols of USS Balao (SS-285) are available there. This is a digital image of the original reports, digitized from a microfilm copy and printed in the original typewriter font just as it was typed by the yeoman in the Balao's office. This is as primary a source as anyone could demand. .....
Since the historical Balao began its first war patrol on 25 July 1943, and was commissioned and worked up under wartime conditions, it is unlikely that it could have been available more than a few days prior to that date.

I've enjoyed and used those primary sources a lot. One example was USS TUNA - even the photo copy of the patrol report on hnsa written back at Pearl covered up a secret mission conducted, but given the lat & long, dates prior to, and lat, long, dates after, and nm ranges possible per day, the mission could be reconstructed.

Happy Hunting!

[TorpX]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

Im running TMO and RSDRC....(looks down at my sig..) and I just recieved the USS Balao in the middle of 1942...Is that historical?

I should have asked this before, but when you say you "recieved" the USS Balao in '42, do you mean you and the Balao are heading out on your first patrol today, or you and the Balao are starting a period of training?

I was under the impression Duci put something along those lines in his campaign.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by TorpX

I should have asked this before, but when you say you "recieved" the USS Balao in '42, do you mean you and the Balao are heading out on your first patrol today, or you and the Balao are starting a period of training?

I was under the impression Duci put something along those lines in his campaign.

I've taken the thing on a war patrol already.

They're putting War Shots in the tubes so i assume I'm taking her to combat.