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Sailor Steve · 03-16-07, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Chief of the Boat

AND... don't forget that the Boats at the beginning of the War were the old "S" boats, many of which barely got out of Cavite [Manila Bay] ahead of the Nipponese. They were built at or shortly after WW ONE, and mostly were barely able to perform their War Patrol duties. The 'Fleet Boats' (with Names instead of like S-37) didn't show up on the scene until 1942 [as I recall].

COB

Actually the Philippine station at Manila and Cavite in December 1941 comprised six S-Boats and twenty-three (23) fleet submarines! The S-class are remembered chiefly because at the Japanese landings at Lingayen Gulf they were the only ones which actually sank anything!

Tigrone · 03-16-07, 12:02 PM

It did not occur to me till just now, all 10 of the Sargos, the entire class, were at Cavite. Holding a class reunion? Seems like there were 3 times as many operational boats forward deployed at Manila than at Pearl when war began, and, if you were a skipper on that day, that was the most likely starting point for your war.

You know, if I were a Japanese commander and was going south, and that large a sub force deployed behind me, across my lines of communications, I'd want to take them out too.

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Tigrone Commander Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Newport Beach, CA Posts: 470 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 0	All 10 Sargos, the whole class, where there on 12/7/41 It did not occur to me till just now, all 10 of the Sargos, the entire class, were at Cavite. Holding a class reunion? Seems like there were 3 times as many operational boats forward deployed at Manila than at Pearl when war began, and, if you were a skipper on that day, that was the most likely starting point for your war. You know, if I were a Japanese commander and was going south, and that large a sub force deployed behind me, across my lines of communications, I'd want to take them out too. __________________ Commander Hiram Cassedy: "Tigrone has saved the Air Force and is now returning to Iwo Jima with 28 rescued zoomies." B-29 SNUFFY & THE SHIF'LESS SKONKS among them. I've a broom at the mast said he, for the broom is a sign for me, that wherever I go, I sweep the mighty sea. Last edited by Tigrone; 03-16-07 at 12:03 PM. Reason: correct spelling error.