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US U-Boats and Snorkel
Posted by: bultacotrial290 ()
Date: September 25, 2007 02:59PM

Dear Friends:

Last week I went on vacation to San Francisco, CA and found near Pier 39 the USS Pampanito sub. This got me thinking about the use of the "snorkel" on german U-Boats to help stay sumerge for longer times. Did any tipe of US submarines use or adapt this snorkel system?

Tell me what do you all think of this:

Is it wrong to call a US submarine U-Boat? Since the term U-Boat comes from the first german vessels of WWI, right? I always thought this: German: U-boat and US: submarines, just to keep it more real........

Regards

Juan

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US U-Boats and Snorkel bultacotrial290 09/25/2007 02:59PM
Re: US U-Boats and Snorkel DanOdenweller 09/25/2007 03:41PM
Re: US U-Boats and Snorkel PaulSant 09/25/2007 08:24PM
Re: US U-Boats and Snorkel/ Thank´s bultacotrial290 09/25/2007 10:48PM
Re: US U-Boats and Snorkel/ Thank´s DanOdenweller 09/25/2007 11:27PM
Re: US U-Boats and Snorkel/ Thank´s PaulSant 09/26/2007 12:20AM
Re: US U-Boats and Snorkel ROBERT M. 09/26/2007 04:55AM


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