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To: buwaya
This was probably unrealistic, but is everything had gone as well as possible they may have made it expensive for the IJN.

Had the been at sea around Luzon on 12/8, who knows what several of them might have been able to tag.

They failed badly, mainly due to poor training and the scandalous state of the torpedoes.

One has to add poor naval leadership.

203 posted on 08/09/2013 2:17:44 AM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

The Asiatic fleet submarines sortied immediately and for the most part were in useful patrols to intercept Japanese shipping in December 1941. They even had a large number of contacts,many even in Lingayen, among the invasion fleet, or off Taiwan and elsewhere in the South China Sea.
The problem is that they were unable to turn most contacts into attacks, which they should have, which was a failure in training and leadership, and when they did attack their tactics or torpedoes mostly proved defective.


204 posted on 08/09/2013 6:29:58 AM PDT by buwaya
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