[PAR35]

I found what we’re looking for in Google Books

http://books.google.com/books?id=7cDN8q2RHGMC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=russian+submarines+1939&source=bl&ots=TFO6XRFtr8&sig=6pc7rQYPPXHUaGTUNMZNallskeU&hl=en&ei=82FsSuncOM-3twfayYCbAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

At the beginning of the War,

Russia - 168 subs
Japan - 62
Germany - 57
Britain - 69
France - 77
Italy 115
US - 99

See footnote page 95

[GeronL]

BUMP!!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Russia - 168 subs

That is in 1939. My link at Reply #10 says there were 218 Soviet submarines "at the beginning of the war." Did they build 50 more in the intervening two years? I guess that is not unreasonable. If Comrade Stalin willed it to happen it would happen.

[CougarGA7]

That’s very interesting, especially considering the almost non-roll that the Soviet sub fleet played in World War II (With those numbers I have trouble buying that. There’s got to be some hidden history here).

Japan sure doesn’t care who they are belligerent towards do they? At this point there still isn’t any decision on whether to strike north into the Soviet Union for oil or the Dutch East Indies. (Wait a month)

Note: Finish my research paper on deniers of the Nanking Massacre today and I’m officially 1/4 of the way to my masters.