Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines

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• PI

  @Piper44LMF · 10 months ago

  Always enjoy Mark's presentations. I have a couple of his books and they are well analyzed and objective when analyzing the IJN and the USN. Thank you Paul as always for great guests and new or additional information to broaden our perspectives.

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• JE

  @jeffbraaton4096 · 2 years ago

  I think I came into today's show with some preconceived ideas of the Japanese Sub fleet and Mark did this terrific presentation of the reality of the fleet and it's operations and folks in the sidebar were just brilliantly engaged. Good information, but damn there's a lot more to be discussed it's like a Master's level seminar class. It tied in so well with the whole week of shows. I know we're not paying you enough Paul, so take yourself and Mag out for dinner and drinks. Fantastic, ready for another round.

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• PH

  @philbosworth3789 · 2 years ago

  That was a very informative talk from Mark.  As always here on @WW2TV I learnt a lot.

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• SE

  @seegurke93 · 2 years ago

  Love Mark and own so many of his books :)

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  @1089maul · 2 years ago

  Woody/Mark. Been away for a few days so started catching up with missed presentations with this gem. I love the naval episodes. This was a great one in a subject that I know little about. I have been educated today. Thanks to you both! Bob<br>Woody - I have been to Los Angeles where I could not find anything re WW2. Looked to see when your presentations were on and found them to be at very unacceptable local times! Therefore I pay tribute to the regular viewers who do watch at incredible local times! Thanks again for all your hard work!

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• AL

  @alanburke1893 · 2 years ago

  Great presentation 👏. &nbsp;What really struck me was that 19 of 190 IJN subs lost during the war were sunk by &nbsp;USN submarines. That this happened in the absence of homing torpedoes is truly astounding.

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• JA

  @jaywhite38 · 2 years ago

  A very complimentary discussion added to a very technical discussion that I watched earlier this week from Drachinifel. Thanks for bringing this analysis to us, Woody. It was very insightful

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• ME

  @mebeasensei · 2 years ago

  A Glen launched from a sub flew over Melbourne in southern Australia upon Feb ‘42. I’m from Melbourne and I was shocked to hear this.

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• PE

  @petestorz172 · 2 years ago

  When PH was attacked, the US had 73 submarines in the Pacific. 18 were obsolescent/obsolete S-boats; several more were obsolescent or marginally useful V-boats. An advantage for USN boats was being able to focus on bottlenecks in predictable shipping lanes (&quot;everything&quot; headed to or from Japan).

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• TI

  @timbrown1481 · 2 years ago

  Excellent presentation. &nbsp;Clear, concise and to the point. &nbsp;Thank you Mark and Woody. &nbsp;Another stellar show. &nbsp;I learned more about Japanese subs. &nbsp;With so much emphasis on U Boats, it’s refreshing to see the PTO side of submarine warfare.

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• PE

  @petestorz172 · 2 years ago

  After the somewhat experimental V-boats, USN submarine classes were successive rather than parallel, and general purpose rather than specialized. Starting with the Porpoise class, each succeeding class had evolutionary incremental improvements. Gato class boats were coming into commission when PH was attacked, were followed by the Balao class (with some overlap), and the Tench class were coming into commission as WW2 was ending.

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• DA

  @DanielHammersley · 2 years ago

  Great stuff Woody &amp; Mark! I learned more about the IJN&apos;s submarine arm! Loved it. Gotta have him back :)

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