ID manual of real captains in ww2

[jimmie]

Originally Posted by Jaeger

....(snip)....by taking a parallel course and speed with their own boat.

Wow. This really sounds authentic to me! I think I've done this method once or twice just by accident, tho.

Originally Posted by Jaeger

....(snip)....and how often did they have to estimate hight or length? were there formulars for estimation? are there some real id manuals, which could be recherched today?

I found Hitman's this description interesting:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...=123373&page=5

And I guess mast height was taken a bit differently than what we do in the game sinece draft of the ship must have varied by payloads.