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Originally Posted by ShadoWarrior
Destroyers and light cruisers are particularly poor (and dangerous) targets for subs. And the US didn't have all that many subs early on. But the US could have begun crippling the Japanese merchant fleet sooner, had they had properly working torps. Wouldn't have affected Guadalcanal much, but it would have been felt in other areas and it would have lessened the Allied losses in the war. But shortened the war? I don't think so.
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They are only dangerous when the other guy knows how to use them. In a British/American fleet gunning for the destroyers is a good way of commiting suicide.
The Japanese tended to run them in ones and twos, making nice targets for a sub.