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My last thought on the needlefish.
(promise)
He said he was building and dedicating the sub for
his father who fought in the pacific in WW2 and for all the submariners who did.
(But didn't say if his dad was a submariner or not).
So why build something that looks like an
enlogated two place (originals were one place) German biber U boot
complete with (non biber but full size U boot looking) cable/net cutters on the
bow?
My dad WAS a submariner who fought in the pacific
in the # 2 rated boat of that entire campaign, The SS269 Rasher. If I was going
to
build a boat espressly dedicated to him and his
fellow submariners, I would build either an O, S, or fleet class replica. Not a
german biber or
a jap minisub. I don't understand his logic. Not
that I don't like the german boats. I love em! But I wouldn't dedicate one to my
dad. He fought
against the japs but the germans as well were his
enemy. My dad would be insulted if I dedicated a jap replica to him
when they (not the jap minisubs, but the japs in general) killed so many of his
fellow sailors.
Now we have evidence that a jap minisub may have
torped some of the ships at Pearl Harbor based on aerial photos we have re gone
over. Would dad be proud of me
dedicating one to him? No way!
Bill.
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