Speaking of mythology, I'm thinking about making a list of
fictional subs with their hull numbers. So far I've noticed
SS502 (Thunderfish, from "Operation Pacific") and SS509
(Tigerfish, from "Ice Station Zebra").
I read a story one time called "Event 1000", about a USS Lancerfish that collides with a freighter n goes down. Don't remember the hull number though.
Nuge
Michael B Holt <tlohm@juno.com> wrote:
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 13:50:07 EST ToolRoomTrustee@aol.com writes:
>
>Some of us elder flatulences might remember when even working class
>guys were assumed to be literate (as opposed to illiterate) and there
were
>magazines for them. Generally the cheaper the magazine or the lower
brow the
>aimed clientele was, the more lurid the cover and the verbiage on it.
Do you remember Coronet magazine?
>So....sometime in late 50s or early 60s I saw one that had a series
>of photographs ostensibly taken in a U-boat as it was being depth
>charged.
Wow. I don't recall that.
>The first was presumed to be taken as the control room gang heard a
>depth charge hit the water and then their reactions as it approached
>them with the last shot being just before it killed them. I assume a
>waterproof camera and it was salvaged from the shallow water sunk
>submarine.
There certainly were enough subs sunk in shallow water for recovery
to have been possible.
>Anybody else here rememeber that magazine?
>I wonder if that was faked?
Someone needs to look for that, to add it to the mythology.
Speaking of mythology, I'm thinking about making a list of
fictional subs with their hull numbers. So far I've noticed
SS502 (Thunderfish, from "Operation Pacific") and SS509
(Tigerfish, from "Ice Station Zebra").
Mike H.
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