General Discussions
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Re:French boat?
Posted by:
J.T. McDaniel
()
Date: September 14, 2002 10:42AM
<HTML>One rather obvious thing about Surcouf would be that she would be virtually impossible to mistake for any other submarine of the period. There were a few other boats with a pair of heavy guns, but none of the others had them in a turret forward of the fairwater. That said, if she survived the collision, I wouldn't discount the possibility of attack by "friendly" aircraft. There was at least one US fleet boat (Dorado) that never made it from New London to Panama and is generally presumed to have been sunk by an American patrol bomber out of Guantamo.
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