Subron's

aanker · 11-21-15, 12:27 PM

Try doing a search for, "submarine squadrons and divisions WWII"

There were Submarine Divisions as well as Squadrons (Subron's)

Many results, also, a virtual trip to your library may be productive once you find books about operations. My library will order books from other regional, State, and national library's if they don't have the books I want.

Then, there is Amazon & Google books, sites like that, and don't forget submarine museums.

Good luck sailor.

Happy Hunting!

J0313 · 11-21-15, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aanker

Try doing a search for, "submarine squadrons and divisions WWII"

There were Submarine Divisions as well as Squadrons (Subron's)

Many results, also, a virtual trip to your library may be productive once you find books about operations. My library will order books from other regional, State, and national library's if they don't have the books I want.

Then, there is Amazon & Google books, sites like that, and don't forget submarine museums.

Good luck sailor.

Happy Hunting!

I already did a search on Google and didn't find much, thanks. I'm not interested in divisions since a ship could change divisions frequently due to the tactical situation, losses etc.

aanker · 11-21-15, 04:00 PM

Sorry, it's going to take some creative digging:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_squadron

Plug these in one by one would be my approach.

If you're lucky you may stumble on a spreadsheet.

aanker · 11-21-15, 07:09 PM

Here you are:

Quote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_squadron
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"A SUBRON usually consists of three or more submarines. It is the submarine force equivalent to a Destroyer Squadron in the surface Navy. The officer in charge of SUBRON ONE is designated Commander Submarine Squadron One or COMSUBRON ONE. However, unlike a destroyer squadron—which actually moves its staff aboard its ships and deploys with them as an operational Task Element commander—a SUBRON commander and his staff always remain in homeport, and are responsible only for the training, equipping and administering of the ships under its umbrella. A submarine squadron is usually commanded by a Captain (O-6) who has already had at least one tour as commander of a submarine. Up until World War II and possibly afterwards, submarine squadrons could have several Submarine Divisions (SubDivs), often pairs of submarines."

- - - - - - A good Table here:

Quote:

http://www.fleetorganization.com/sub...ommanders.html
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Squadron Commanders

"Clay Blair provides a list of assigned Squadron Commanders as an appendix in Silent Victory"

"Please note that during the war Squadrons were purely administrative in nature, and squadron commanders did not control the operations of the boats assigned to them."

Squadrons - SUBRON's:
SUBRON 1, SUBRON 2, SUBRON 3, SUBRON 4, SUBRON 5, SUBRON 6, SUBRON 7, SUBRON 8, SUBRON 10, SUBRON 12, SUBRON 13, SUBRON 14, SUBRON 16, SUBRON 17, SUBRON 20, SUBRON 22, SUBRON 24, SUBRON 26, SUBRON 28, SUBRON 30, SUBRON 32, SUBRON 34, SUBRON 36, SUBRON 45, SUBRON 50

The table listing the Subrons lists commanders, and a little more digging will tell you 'which were where'.

Happy Hunting!

J0313 · 11-21-15, 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aanker

Here you are:
- - - - - - A good Table here:
The table listing the Subrons lists commanders, and a little more digging will tell you 'which were where'.

Happy Hunting!

Thank you aanker. I had already looked at the sight showing the suborn commanders. I cant believe that there isn't a list on Wikipedia. I am interested in finging out which squadrons were assigned where during the war. I suppose I will have to do it the way you suggested and maybe search each commander or something buy name.

Aktungbby · 11-22-15, 11:02 AM

HEY I looked all that up too but couldn't come up with any thing 'definitive' and lo: help arrives from an unseen quarter this AM...

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=2360560#post2360560 I've got a good handle on Subron 5's location at least

aanker · 11-22-15, 11:58 AM

Nice find,

Whenever I needed "Silent Victory" I went to the library.... that will teach me for being so cheap. I wonder how much he has in the Appendix - or if the Table already has everything - and that is all there is.

I have a couple friends who have "Silent Victory" and other books, I will shoot off a few emails and see what I get.

We all know where SUBRON 50 was .... lol .... Holy Loch, in Scotland.

11-21-15, 04:00 PM	#3
aanker Pacific Thunder Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yellow Sea Posts: 1,896 Downloads: 236 Uploads: 14	Sorry, it's going to take some creative digging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_squadron Plug these in one by one would be my approach. If you're lucky you may stumble on a spreadsheet. __________________ " Bless those who serve beneath the deep, Through lonely hours their vigil keep. May peace their mission ever be, Protect each one we ask of thee. Bless those at home who wait and pray, For their return by night and day."

11-22-15, 11:02 AM	#6
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,069 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Thanks tmccarthy! HEY I looked all that up too but couldn't come up with any thing 'definitive' and lo: help arrives from an unseen quarter this AM... http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=2360560#post2360560 I've got a good handle on Subron 5's location at least __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

11-21-15, 12:27 PM	#1
aanker Pacific Thunder Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yellow Sea Posts: 1,896 Downloads: 236 Uploads: 14	Try doing a search for, "submarine squadrons and divisions WWII" There were Submarine Divisions as well as Squadrons (Subron's) Many results, also, a virtual trip to your library may be productive once you find books about operations. My library will order books from other regional, State, and national library's if they don't have the books I want. Then, there is Amazon & Google books, sites like that, and don't forget submarine museums. Good luck sailor. Happy Hunting!

11-22-15, 11:58 AM	#7
aanker Pacific Thunder Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yellow Sea Posts: 1,896 Downloads: 236 Uploads: 14	Nice find, Whenever I needed "Silent Victory" I went to the library.... that will teach me for being so cheap. I wonder how much he has in the Appendix - or if the Table already has everything - and that is all there is. I have a couple friends who have "Silent Victory" and other books, I will shoot off a few emails and see what I get. We all know where SUBRON 50 was .... lol .... Holy Loch, in Scotland.