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From: r_anderson@clyppr.enet.dec.com (Rick Anderson)
Subject: Re: WWII Submarine Tactics......A Good Book
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 05:26:52 GMT
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From: r_anderson@clyppr.enet.dec.com (Rick Anderson)

In article <1990Oct29.034219.11504@cbnews.att.com>,
welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty) writes:
> From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
> 
> In article <1990Oct24.151528.16305@cbnews.att.com>, Bob McCormick writes: 
> O'Kane's book on his own experiences as CO of Tang is
> _Clear the Bridge_.  it's a very good read, well worth
> looking up.  I don't know if O'Kane scored most tonnage,
> but he certainly got most ships; he averaged twice as many
> per patrol as Wahoo, and Wahoo was second by a very large
> margin.  Edward Beach (_Submarine!_) suggests that the
> agressive patrolling of O'Kane was partially due to the desire
> to revenge the loss of Morton and Wahoo; his old skipper and
> sub were lost shortly before he took Tang out on her first
> war patrol.

Another excellent book on submarine tactics and strategy is by
Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood, COMSUBPAC during WWII, called:
"Sink 'em All!".  The book focuses on the strategy and problems
encountered during the submarine war of WWII.  The book also
goes indepth into the cause of each sinking of U.S. submarines.
The book also spends a good amount of time concerning the
torpedo problems that occurred early in the war and the efforts
it took to fix the problem (even though the British and Germans
had already fixed the same problems many years earlier!).
It is a very good book - I highly recommend it.

Warning: the book was written in 1951 and contains some very
out-dated views of the future (from a 1951 point of view) of 
submarine technology and strategy.  Remember, 1951 was before
the age of nuclear subs!

Enjoy!
Rick

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