Virtual sub tour

[cheeseczar]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.395604,0.52618&spn=0.308892,0.624847&cbp=12,113.93,,0,3.96&layer=c&panoid=0sztIXh7pDEAAAQJOMnFCQ&cbll=51.395604,0.52618&t=m&z=11

[Indy500Dude]

Bubbleheads, a whole different breed of Sailor. Never had the desire to be one.

[cheeseczar]

I felt a bit uncomfortable on the U505 in Chicago and the USS Batfish in Oklahoma.
Tight spaces usually don't bother me.

[Big Mo]

That's a spacious sub compared with a WWII fleet submarine. Two different aisles in some sections.

[Frank Capua]

I would have been fine with sub duty... for all of 15 minutes.

[ZOOOM]

I have been on several WWII gato class boats.
the Cod in Cleveland, Bowfin in Hawaii, Cobia in Manitowoc, wis., Drum, Mobile, Pampanito, Sanfrancisco, Silversides, Muskegon, mi.,

all great boats, and all a little different. Only on the Drum in Mobile can you get up into the conning tower. COOOL!

the boats built in Manitowoc, wi., we're put in floating dry docks and floated down the Illinois, And Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. Then to war!

ZOOOM

[Sleepcheap]

I would have been fine with sub duty... for all of 15 minutes.

That's about 14:30 more than I could do.

[Big Mo]

I think I could have served on a Gato-class boat. At least my heart says I could have. I've never served, and being the son of a combat Marine who served on Iwo Jima, Guam and Bougainville, I can't even guess how I would have done. I've read so many books about the Pacific theater, underwater, on the water, on the land and in the air, I sometimes feel like a wannabe historian.