Interesting.
It's namesake is just outside of my work:
I am glad that people still look for the lost boats.
The contribution of the US pacific submarine forces to the defeat of Japan in WWII is generally under recognized. They had a HUGE affect on Japan's ability to both supply the country (not a lot of natural resources) and supply it's armies. This is especially significant when you consider they had an almost completely ineffective torpedo (design defects) until mid 1943.
Here is a, not so good, graphic about that. Not my markup, but note that first line, and compare it to the Germans (the other heavily active submarine fleet). Look at that tonnage per sub!
I had no idea THAT MANY ships were sunk!
Another slightly more detailed article:
https://www.stripes.com/history/2023-02-16/wwii-submarine-wreckage-japan-albacore-9163796.html
Yeah, the US Navy wiped out Japanese shipping, starving the island nation of resources in the same way that Germany tried (and failed) to do to the UK.
"According to Japanese records obtained after the war, a submarine (presumed to be Albacore) struck a naval mine very close to the shore off northeastern Hokkaidō on 7 November 1944. A Japanese patrol boat witnessed the explosion of a submerged submarine and saw a great deal of heavy oil, cork, bedding, and food supplies rise to the surface. "
Damn.
preach (dudeist priest) said:It's namesake is just outside of my work:
I am glad that people still look for the lost boats.
I visited the retired USS Albacore last summer.
Its purpose was quite a bit different from the WWII vessel, as it was more of an experimental test vessel, but it was super cool nonetheless. Highly recommended visit if you're in the area. Glad they found the lost sub.
In reply to Tony Sestito :
Yes, it was a test mule for the new teardrop shape.
Oddly enough, when I was a kid my mother worked at the Penn State water tunnel in State College, PA. I used to play with the punch cards that spoke the language of whatever they used as a program back then (Mid '70s). The water tunnel was instrumental in the new design.
You got me, but there were hundreds of them.
preach (dudeist priest) said:In reply to Tony Sestito :
Yes, it was a test mule for the new teardrop shape.
Oddly enough, when I was a kid my mother worked at the Penn State water tunnel in State College, PA. I used to play with the punch cards that spoke the language of whatever they used as a program back then (Mid '70s). The water tunnel was instrumental in the new design.
You got me, but there were hundreds of them.
As an engineering student in the late 70's, I well remember trudging across campus at all hours to type up my Fortran programs. One line of code per card. Some programs required that you carried hundreds of cards around in a box. You would submit your program to the professor at a class meeting. If you did (most) everything right, you got your stack of cards back along with a printout of your results at the next class meeting. If you screwed something up, you got your cards back with a brief message stating why the program didn't run. Procrastinators did not generally do well in these classes, as it was rare that you got everything right on your first or second try, and you were only going to get one shot every other class meeting.
I served on a submarine that was named after a WW2 era attack sub. The readings from the original WW2 battle book when someone qualified submarines were always special,
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