Submarines Don't (didn't) Fight One Another

I was only aboard one boat in port, a friend came up to see me from NAS Miramar from the sub docks down S San Diego. I wish I could remember the name, I believe it was the last or perhaps one of 2 or 3 diesel fleet boats still in service. This was ?? 71-2-3 don't remember. So we go down there, and there the damn thing is, every hatch and door open that safe to open, and has been so for whatever period they were tied up there. Even so, the damn thing smelled like a mix of sweat, mildew, dirty clothes, diesel, battery acid, "the toilet" and maybe even a little puke. He showed me his (shared) rack above a torpedo. had a 1-MC (the PA system) great big sharp cornered metal box above his head. Not EVEN enough room to turn over hardly, and neither of us were "big" guys. NO THANK YOU and kudoos to the guys who did.

I've read some about WWII and the trouble the U.S. had with torpedoes, and how some suppliers and bigshots damn near torpedoed their own guys and themselves because they were too damn egotistical and stubborn to admit there might be a problem. Who knows how much shorter the war might have been if we had had a few more successes. Even so, subs on all sides scored a tremendous kill tally at the loss of a very high percentage of boats and personnel.