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Posted: 2/5/2016 9:56:53 AM EDT
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Do yourself a favor and read about the Wahoo; that reading will take you right to the Tang, the very pinnacle of WW2 Pacific submarines.
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Posted: 2/5/2016 10:15:24 AM EDT
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Yeah they did, in 2006.
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Posted: 2/5/2016 10:23:36 AM EDT
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Do yourself a favor and read about the Wahoo; that reading will take you right to the Tang, the very pinnacle of WW2 Pacific submarines. In the Wake of the Wahoo by her EO, Richard O'Kane who transferrred off to take command of his own sub. His book about his ship, the USS Tang, is Clear the Bridge. Another good read is Eugene Fluckey's Thunder Below! Fluckey skippered the USS Barb and sank everything he could. He even resorted to ramming a trawler whenall his torpedoes, deck gun, rifle grenades were exhausted. He sent a shore party ashore and they blew up a train with a bomb that the crew devised. He had rocket racks mounted on the deck of his sub with which he attacked coastal towns. |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 10:30:21 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/5/2016 10:31:30 AM EDT
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Another good read is Eugene Fluckey's Thunder Below! Fluckey skippered the USS Barb and sank everything he could. He even resorted to ramming a trawler whenall his torpedoes, deck gun, rifle grenades were exhausted. He sent a shore party ashore and they blew up a train with a bomb that the crew devised. He had rocket racks mounted on the deck of his sub with which he attacked coastal towns. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Another good read is Eugene Fluckey's Thunder Below! Fluckey skippered the USS Barb and sank everything he could. He even resorted to ramming a trawler whenall his torpedoes, deck gun, rifle grenades were exhausted. He sent a shore party ashore and they blew up a train with a bomb that the crew devised. He had rocket racks mounted on the deck of his sub with which he attacked coastal towns. The story of his 5th patrol is nuts. I especially love the order sent to him at the end fluckey you come home x acknowledge x. |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 10:33:47 AM EDT
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Rest in peace, brave souls. You gave the enemy one hell of a beating before you went down.
You are not forgotten. 
"Destroyer gunnin', Wahoo runnin'..." |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 10:39:54 AM EDT
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First I read of the WWII subs was O'Kanes "Clear the Bridge" about the Tang
Very entertaining author with a very entertaining subject . I passed over the intro to the book and was absolutely floored when I got to the end (ship was sunk by it's own last torpedo on a circular run ) I can recommend that book highly . It gives a great overview of the war from a navy sub perspective , a great view of a great combat sub . There has been quite a bit written about WWII combat subs but for me it is all about three -Wahoo , Tang and Barb |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 10:46:27 AM EDT
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Guys name was Dudley. That pretty much garrantees two things. either he commits suicide as a teen or is a bad motherfucker.
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Posted: 2/5/2016 10:46:41 AM EDT
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lol Love this guy's writing style! Quote HistoryQuoted:
lol Love this guy's writing style! Indeed! 
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Posted: 2/5/2016 10:51:46 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/5/2016 10:55:32 AM EDT
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Guys name was Dudley. That pretty much garrantees two things. either he commits suicide as a teen or is a bad motherfucker. Yeah, when you decide to use your nickname even though your nickname is "Mush" that says a lot. |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 11:24:39 AM EDT
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1.6% of the US Navy's full complement accounted for 55% of all the Japanese tonnage sunk during WWII....
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Posted: 2/5/2016 11:24:42 AM EDT
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lol Love this guy's writing style! Quote HistoryQuoted:
lol Love this guy's writing style! if they had boys read stuff like this in middle school... their grades would be better. |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 11:29:24 AM EDT
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1.6% of the US Navy's full complement accounted for 55% of all the Japanese tonnage sunk during WWII.... And suffering a 1 in 5 casualty rate in the process... |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 11:42:19 AM EDT
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lol Love this guy's writing style! Quote HistoryQuoted:
lol Love this guy's writing style! I wish I had the chance to have a drink with Mush Morton. Honey badgers give way when he walked by. And I like that writing style too! |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 11:44:52 AM EDT
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I thought they found it awhile back. Weren't there Japanese WWII pics of the hunt for the sub and the oil slick?
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Posted: 2/5/2016 11:47:25 AM EDT
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10 year old news.... LOL GD is so fuct
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Posted: 2/5/2016 11:47:44 AM EDT
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I thought they found it awhile back. Weren't there Japanese WWII pics of the hunt for the sub and the oil slick? Yeah, 2006. The story is making the rounds again on Facebook as well. Don't know why. |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 12:14:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThere should be an extra large pair for the guys who stood watch in late 1943, when everybody except comsubpac knew that the U.S. torpedo was a piece of junk. |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 12:26:38 PM EDT
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There should be an extra large pair for the guys who stood watch in late 1943, when everybody except comsubpac knew that the U.S. torpedo was a piece of junk. Quote HistoryQuoted:
There should be an extra large pair for the guys who stood watch in late 1943, when everybody except comsubpac knew that the U.S. torpedo was a piece of junk. The Bureau of Ordnance assholes in Newport should have been dragged through the streets by their heels for refusing to consider that their precious torpedoes JUST WEREN'T WORKING, and that people were DYING because of it. But no, the bureaucrats couldn't possibly be wrong. It HAD to be the guys whose ashes were out in the air who didn't know how to shoot the damned things. |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 12:37:36 PM EDT
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"Turns out that they didn't actually kill very many of the troops in the boats, but hey, it's the thought that counts" Popped another gasket at that one. =) |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 12:41:45 PM EDT
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The survivors of the Tang were held in a special Navy POW camp in Japan that was reserved for high value prisoners like sub crews and aviators.
Pappy Boyington was there, too, and Louis Zamperini. |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 1:10:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In the Wake of the Wahoo by her EO, Richard O'Kane who transferrred off to take command of his own sub. His book about his ship, the USS Tang, is Clear the Bridge. Another good read is Eugene Fluckey's Thunder Below! Fluckey skippered the USS Barb and sank everything he could. He even resorted to ramming a trawler whenall his torpedoes, deck gun, rifle grenades were exhausted. He sent a shore party ashore and they blew up a train with a bomb that the crew devised. He had rocket racks mounted on the deck of his sub with which he attacked coastal towns. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Do yourself a favor and read about the Wahoo; that reading will take you right to the Tang, the very pinnacle of WW2 Pacific submarines. In the Wake of the Wahoo by her EO, Richard O'Kane who transferrred off to take command of his own sub. His book about his ship, the USS Tang, is Clear the Bridge. Another good read is Eugene Fluckey's Thunder Below! Fluckey skippered the USS Barb and sank everything he could. He even resorted to ramming a trawler whenall his torpedoes, deck gun, rifle grenades were exhausted. He sent a shore party ashore and they blew up a train with a bomb that the crew devised. He had rocket racks mounted on the deck of his sub with which he attacked coastal towns. |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 1:14:55 PM EDT
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I thought they found it awhile back. Weren't there Japanese WWII pics of the hunt for the sub and the oil slick? Yeah, the story is from 2006  The Russians found it while they were looking for the Soviet sub L-19 that hit a mine in the same area and wanted the U.S. to help identify that it was the Wahoo.
The Japanese apparently did a four-hour attack on it and sunk it when a Jap plane caught it going through the straits on the surface. The military records of the attack had been known for awhile; but it was just speculation as to what sub they attacked. |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 1:19:04 PM EDT
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The Bureau of Ordnance assholes in Newport should have been dragged through the streets by their heels for refusing to consider that their precious torpedoes JUST WEREN'T WORKING, and that people were DYING because of it. But no, the bureaucrats couldn't possibly be wrong. It HAD to be the guys whose ashes were out in the air who didn't know how to shoot the damned things. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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There should be an extra large pair for the guys who stood watch in late 1943, when everybody except comsubpac knew that the U.S. torpedo was a piece of junk. The Bureau of Ordnance assholes in Newport should have been dragged through the streets by their heels for refusing to consider that their precious torpedoes JUST WEREN'T WORKING, and that people were DYING because of it. But no, the bureaucrats couldn't possibly be wrong. It HAD to be the guys whose ashes were out in the air who didn't know how to shoot the damned things. Yeah, I can't even imagine that. You are basically out there in a boat and your prime weapon is the torpedo - and instead of exploding it just announces to your enemy "Hey guys! There's a submarine lurking out there!" Then you are left trying to sneak away on WWII era batteries at a max speed of 9 knots while destroyers carpet the area around you in explosives. |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 1:21:54 PM EDT
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Quoted: http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=26378 A combined U.S./Japan/Russian effort has located the final resting place of the USS Wahoo on its last patrol. See also: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wahoo.html The Wahoo returned to sea, and the shit got even more fucking insane. This time they headed for Korea, and they stopped off for fuel at Midway Island (subs ran on Diesel fuel, and the Pacific is a mother big ocean). While there, the crew found some insane Molotov cocktail exploding firebombs the Marines had made to fend off the expected Japanese invasion of Midway. These things were unstable as shit, and the Marines were like, dudes, seriously, don't fuck around with those, they're really really dangerous. Commander Morton didn't give a crap. He put those death bombs in the submarine and headed to Korea. In spite of a particularly fucked-up batch of dud torpedoes, Wahoo sank 9 Japanese ships, including one with the deck gun after they ran out of torpedoes. It was a US Navy record for ship kills in a single patrol. But, as you might expect, MOrton still wasn't done. Not long after smoking nine warships by himself, Morton found another ship, a smaller one, and Wahoo moved in in to wreck its ass. The were out of torpedoes and out of 102mm ammo for the deck gun, but fuck it, says Morton, use the 20mm anti-aircraft guns. The Wahoo opened up, but all three 20mm guns quickly jammed up. This only made Morton EVEN MORE PISSED. "No problem" says Morton, "get the fucking Death Bombs". Sailors run up to the upper decks with these goddamned Molotov cocktails, Morton orders his ship to dive, pull up directly beside the enemy ship (which was currently trying to blast them with everything they had) and Morton and his men popped up out the hatch and hand threw all of the bombs onto the enemy ship, torching it into a flaming wreck in one of the most balls-out events in Naval warfare since the days of the Roman Empire. The sea off Korea was full of flaming wreckage and floating bodies – the Japanese figured they had been hit with an entire wolfpack of submarines. There wasn't so much as a match stick left on Wahoo, so they returned to Pearl – clean sweep once again. GODDAM!!!  |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 1:26:10 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/5/2016 1:31:46 PM EDT
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http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=26378 A combined U.S./Japan/Russian effort has located the final resting place of the USS Wahoo on its last patrol. See also: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wahoo.html I love the Badass Of The Week shit: Commander "Mush" Morton was a true badass who took charge of shit and layed the smackdown over and over when America desperately needed it done. Inspired by his badassitude the US submarine force went on to become a deadly group of mofos who wrecked the shit of the Japanese Navy a hellacious way, and Morton was the OG who started it all. It wasn't just the number of chump ships he personally capped – his actions changed Navy doctrine forever by showing other sub skippers how to be Real Men. At the time of his death, Morton was the top-scoring sub commander in U.S. history, having taken down 19 confirmed enemy vessels, and his executive officer Richard O'Kane was so overawed by the size of Mush Morton's nutsack that when left the Wahoo for his own command he went on to surpass for former commander and become the top scoring US sub commander of the war. Just by way of comparison, Mush Morton, whose insane rampage of death was came to a close in 1943, still ended up as the #3 top sub ace of the entire war, which went on two years after his death. Morton didn't give a shit about anything but destroying the enemies of his country. He was a true hero, and a badass dude in every sense of the word – learn from this, bitches. Submariners already had some HUGE motherfucking balls back then... but this guy (and his crew, to a man!) must have had to have wheelbarrows just to get them ashore once they were out of torpedoes, 120mm, 20mm .50cal, small arms ammo, Roman Candles, Death Bombs and Black Cats. Rest in Peace, USS Wahoo. Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. God bless! |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 1:33:49 PM EDT
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The Wahoo returned to sea, and the shit got even more fucking insane. This time they headed for Korea, and they stopped off for fuel at Midway Island (subs ran on Diesel fuel, and the Pacific is a mother big ocean). While there, the crew found some insane Molotov cocktail exploding firebombs the Marines had made to fend off the expected Japanese invasion of Midway. These things were unstable as shit, and the Marines were like, dudes, seriously, don't fuck around with those, they're really really dangerous. Commander Morton didn't give a crap. He put those death bombs in the submarine and headed to Korea. In spite of a particularly fucked-up batch of dud torpedoes, Wahoo sank 9 Japanese ships, including one with the deck gun after they ran out of torpedoes. It was a US Navy record for ship kills in a single patrol. But, as you might expect, MOrton still wasn't done. Not long after smoking nine warships by himself, Morton found another ship, a smaller one, and Wahoo moved in in to wreck its ass. The were out of torpedoes and out of 102mm ammo for the deck gun, but fuck it, says Morton, use the 20mm anti-aircraft guns. The Wahoo opened up, but all three 20mm guns quickly jammed up. This only made Morton EVEN MORE PISSED. "No problem" says Morton, "get the fucking Death Bombs". Sailors run up to the upper decks with these goddamned Molotov cocktails, Morton orders his ship to dive, pull up directly beside the enemy ship (which was currently trying to blast them with everything they had) and Morton and his men popped up out the hatch and hand threw all of the bombs onto the enemy ship, torching it into a flaming wreck in one of the most balls-out events in Naval warfare since the days of the Roman Empire. The sea off Korea was full of flaming wreckage and floating bodies – the Japanese figured they had been hit with an entire wolfpack of submarines. There wasn't so much as a match stick left on Wahoo, so they returned to Pearl – clean sweep once again. GODDAM!!!
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http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=26378 A combined U.S./Japan/Russian effort has located the final resting place of the USS Wahoo on its last patrol. See also: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wahoo.html The Wahoo returned to sea, and the shit got even more fucking insane. This time they headed for Korea, and they stopped off for fuel at Midway Island (subs ran on Diesel fuel, and the Pacific is a mother big ocean). While there, the crew found some insane Molotov cocktail exploding firebombs the Marines had made to fend off the expected Japanese invasion of Midway. These things were unstable as shit, and the Marines were like, dudes, seriously, don't fuck around with those, they're really really dangerous. Commander Morton didn't give a crap. He put those death bombs in the submarine and headed to Korea. In spite of a particularly fucked-up batch of dud torpedoes, Wahoo sank 9 Japanese ships, including one with the deck gun after they ran out of torpedoes. It was a US Navy record for ship kills in a single patrol. But, as you might expect, MOrton still wasn't done. Not long after smoking nine warships by himself, Morton found another ship, a smaller one, and Wahoo moved in in to wreck its ass. The were out of torpedoes and out of 102mm ammo for the deck gun, but fuck it, says Morton, use the 20mm anti-aircraft guns. The Wahoo opened up, but all three 20mm guns quickly jammed up. This only made Morton EVEN MORE PISSED. "No problem" says Morton, "get the fucking Death Bombs". Sailors run up to the upper decks with these goddamned Molotov cocktails, Morton orders his ship to dive, pull up directly beside the enemy ship (which was currently trying to blast them with everything they had) and Morton and his men popped up out the hatch and hand threw all of the bombs onto the enemy ship, torching it into a flaming wreck in one of the most balls-out events in Naval warfare since the days of the Roman Empire. The sea off Korea was full of flaming wreckage and floating bodies – the Japanese figured they had been hit with an entire wolfpack of submarines. There wasn't so much as a match stick left on Wahoo, so they returned to Pearl – clean sweep once again. GODDAM!!!
LOL, I liked that part. It was like the time when the US destroyer USS O'Bannon ended up right fucking next to a Jap sub, so close, she couldn't get her guns on the sub. Her crew was peeling potatoes, so they started chucking them at the Japs on the sub. Well, the Japs thought they were grenades and got below deck fast as fuck! I can't remember of the O'Bannon sunk that sub, but they were famous for throwing potatoes at it! |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 1:37:11 PM EDT
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First I read of the WWII subs was O'Kanes "Clear the Bridge" about the Tang Very entertaining author with a very entertaining subject . I passed over the intro to the book and was absolutely floored when I got to the end (ship was sunk by it's own last torpedo on a circular run ) I can recommend that book highly . It gives a great overview of the war from a navy sub perspective , a great view of a great combat sub . There has been quite a bit written about WWII combat subs but for me it is all about three -Wahoo , Tang and Barb Read up on Sam Dealey and the USS Harder. |
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Posted: 2/5/2016 1:37:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/5/2016 1:39:12 PM EDT
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LOL, I liked that part. It was like the time when the US destroyer USS O'Bannon ended up right fucking next to a Jap sub, so close, she couldn't get her guns on the sub. Her crew was peeling potatoes, so they started chucking them at the Japs on the sub. Well, the Japs thought they were grenades and got below deck fast as fuck! I can't remember of the O'Bannon sunk that sub, but they were famous for throwing potatoes at it! Quote HistoryQuoted:
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http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=26378 A combined U.S./Japan/Russian effort has located the final resting place of the USS Wahoo on its last patrol. See also: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wahoo.html The Wahoo returned to sea, and the shit got even more fucking insane. This time they headed for Korea, and they stopped off for fuel at Midway Island (subs ran on Diesel fuel, and the Pacific is a mother big ocean). While there, the crew found some insane Molotov cocktail exploding firebombs the Marines had made to fend off the expected Japanese invasion of Midway. These things were unstable as shit, and the Marines were like, dudes, seriously, don't fuck around with those, they're really really dangerous. Commander Morton didn't give a crap. He put those death bombs in the submarine and headed to Korea. In spite of a particularly fucked-up batch of dud torpedoes, Wahoo sank 9 Japanese ships, including one with the deck gun after they ran out of torpedoes. It was a US Navy record for ship kills in a single patrol. But, as you might expect, MOrton still wasn't done. Not long after smoking nine warships by himself, Morton found another ship, a smaller one, and Wahoo moved in in to wreck its ass. The were out of torpedoes and out of 102mm ammo for the deck gun, but fuck it, says Morton, use the 20mm anti-aircraft guns. The Wahoo opened up, but all three 20mm guns quickly jammed up. This only made Morton EVEN MORE PISSED. "No problem" says Morton, "get the fucking Death Bombs". Sailors run up to the upper decks with these goddamned Molotov cocktails, Morton orders his ship to dive, pull up directly beside the enemy ship (which was currently trying to blast them with everything they had) and Morton and his men popped up out the hatch and hand threw all of the bombs onto the enemy ship, torching it into a flaming wreck in one of the most balls-out events in Naval warfare since the days of the Roman Empire. The sea off Korea was full of flaming wreckage and floating bodies – the Japanese figured they had been hit with an entire wolfpack of submarines. There wasn't so much as a match stick left on Wahoo, so they returned to Pearl – clean sweep once again. GODDAM!!!
LOL, I liked that part. It was like the time when the US destroyer USS O'Bannon ended up right fucking next to a Jap sub, so close, she couldn't get her guns on the sub. Her crew was peeling potatoes, so they started chucking them at the Japs on the sub. Well, the Japs thought they were grenades and got below deck fast as fuck! I can't remember of the O'Bannon sunk that sub, but they were famous for throwing potatoes at it! Leave it to a destroyer named after a Mick to throw potatoes at the enemy 
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Posted: 2/5/2016 1:50:41 PM EDT
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My father spent years under water in the South Pacific on a number of Subs.
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Posted: 2/5/2016 2:13:05 PM EDT
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At the Submarine memorial in Pearl...
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Posted: 2/5/2016 2:15:17 PM EDT
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And suffering a 1 in 5 casualty rate in the process... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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1.6% of the US Navy's full complement accounted for 55% of all the Japanese tonnage sunk during WWII.... And suffering a 1 in 5 casualty rate in the process... And with crap torpedoes for most of the War. |
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