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This is the COMSUBPAC Combat Doctrine Submarines, as of 1944.
As for Comsubpac here are the officers and periods during world War Two.
Rear Admiral Thomas Withers 1941-1942
Rear Admiral Thomas Withers helped change the direction of U.S. Navy submarine policy during the 1920's. In February 1928, Withers, commanding Submarine Division 4, argued that rather than using submarines as scouting units for the fleet or coastal defense craft, the Navy should design and use its submarines as independent commerce raiders. He called for submarines with improved habitability, sea keeping, and longer range. Withers, a native of South Platte, Colorado, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1906. He commanded the submarine USS E-1 from April 1914 to July 1916. During this time, E-1 made a 10-day voyage, the longest by a U.S. submarine to that time. The voyage tested crew and submarine endurance and proved that the smaller submarines then being proposed would not meet U.S. Navy requirements for trans-oceanic operations. Withers commanded Submarine Division 95 from July 1922 to March 1923. He was also Commander Submarines, Scouting Force from January 1941 to May 1942. This command became Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet, at the outbreak of World War II.
RADM Withers was also the first force commander to order each of his submarines to travel below test depth at least once on each transit to their operating area. He also hammered home the idea to his submarine commanders that it was unsafe to transit at a depth of 125 feet because of the boat's visibility to low-flying enemy aircraft. He often demonstrated this theory by taking his sub commanders on airplane rides to prove how easily the boats could be spotted from the air.
RADM Withers commanded a division of K-boats and a division of S-boats. Despite his lack of experience with fleet boats, he commanded 21 of them in 1941.
A kindly, soft-spoken officer, RADM Withers gained unlimited support and praise from his Sailors after leasing the Honolulu Royal Hawaiian Hotel for permanent use as a Rest Camp de luxe for Submarine Sailors in port. He was relieved by RADM English on May 14, 1942 and assumed command of Portsmouth Navy Yard.
Prior to accepting duties as COMSUBPAC, RADM English commanded Submarine Squadron Four during World War II. Following numerous Mark XIV torpedo failures early in World War II, RADM English worked with RADM McCann in leading successful torpedo testing and improvements in torpedo construction. RADM English and 18 Naval personnel were killed January 20, 1943 when their PanAm plane crashed into the side of a mountain during a driving rain-storm north of San Francisco, California. The group had traveled from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to visit submarine support facilities at Mare Island and to see family members.
Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood will forever be known in submarine history as the legendary COMSUBPAC, Commander Submarine Force Pacific Fleet, who led the silent service to victory during World War II in the Pacific. Born in Midland, Virginia, on 6 May 1890, Lockwood graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1912. He was assigned command of the submarine USS A-2 (SS-3) in 1914. He command the ex-German submarine UC-97 from March 1919 to August 1919, and the submarine USS V-3 (SS-163) from May 1926 to December 1928. The ex UC-97 was used to evaluate the capabilities of German submarine equipment.
During World War II Lockwood served in the thick of action, as U.S. Naval Attache to Great Britain from February 1941 to March 1942 and Commander Submarines, Southwest Pacific, from April 1942 until February 1943. Following the death of Rear Admiral Robert H. English in February 1943, Lockwood shifted his flag to Pearl Harbor, replacing temporary COMSUBPAC Captain John H. Brown in February 1943. During his tour, Lockwood improvised tactics to make the most effective use of submarines and pushed the Navy's Bureaus of Ships and Ordnance to provide his men with the most effective submarines and torpedoes possible. He oversaw the tests that proved early U.S. torpedo unreliability and prompted the improvements that made them the highly effective weapons they became in 1944 and 1945. U.S. submarines sank more than 5.6 million tons of enemy shipping including more than 1,100 merchant ships and 200 warships. U.S. submarine attacks on enemy shipping accounted for more than fifty percent of enemy ships lost during the war.
Of the 16,000 U.S. submariners in the war, 375 officers and 3,131 enlisted men on fifty-two submarines were lost. The U.S. submarine force's wartime success was achieved with the lowest casualty rate of any combatant submarine service on either side. Lockwood's strong leadership and devotion to his troops won him the nickname "Uncle Charlie" and a promotion to Vice Admiral in late 1943. Lockwood died in June 1967.
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http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/...oct/index.html
This is the COMSUBPAC Combat Doctrine Submarines, as of 1944.
As for Comsubpac here are the officers and periods during world War Two.
Rear Admiral Thomas Withers 1941-1942
Rear Admiral Thomas Withers helped change the direction of U.S. Navy submarine policy during the 1920's. In February 1928, Withers, commanding Submarine Division 4, argued that rather than using submarines as scouting units for the fleet or coastal defense craft, the Navy should design and use its submarines as independent commerce raiders. He called for submarines with improved habitability, sea keeping, and longer range. Withers, a native of South Platte, Colorado, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1906. He commanded the submarine USS E-1 from April 1914 to July 1916. During this time, E-1 made a 10-day voyage, the longest by a U.S. submarine to that time. The voyage tested crew and submarine endurance and proved that the smaller submarines then being proposed would not meet U.S. Navy requirements for trans-oceanic operations. Withers commanded Submarine Division 95 from July 1922 to March 1923. He was also Commander Submarines, Scouting Force from January 1941 to May 1942. This command became Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet, at the outbreak of World War II.
RADM Withers was also the first force commander to order each of his submarines to travel below test depth at least once on each transit to their operating area. He also hammered home the idea to his submarine commanders that it was unsafe to transit at a depth of 125 feet because of the boat's visibility to low-flying enemy aircraft. He often demonstrated this theory by taking his sub commanders on airplane rides to prove how easily the boats could be spotted from the air.
RADM Withers commanded a division of K-boats and a division of S-boats. Despite his lack of experience with fleet boats, he commanded 21 of them in 1941.
A kindly, soft-spoken officer, RADM Withers gained unlimited support and praise from his Sailors after leasing the Honolulu Royal Hawaiian Hotel for permanent use as a Rest Camp de luxe for Submarine Sailors in port. He was relieved by RADM English on May 14, 1942 and assumed command of Portsmouth Navy Yard.
Prior to accepting duties as COMSUBPAC, RADM English commanded Submarine Squadron Four during World War II. Following numerous Mark XIV torpedo failures early in World War II, RADM English worked with RADM McCann in leading successful torpedo testing and improvements in torpedo construction. RADM English and 18 Naval personnel were killed January 20, 1943 when their PanAm plane crashed into the side of a mountain during a driving rain-storm north of San Francisco, California. The group had traveled from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to visit submarine support facilities at Mare Island and to see family members.
Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood will forever be known in submarine history as the legendary COMSUBPAC, Commander Submarine Force Pacific Fleet, who led the silent service to victory during World War II in the Pacific. Born in Midland, Virginia, on 6 May 1890, Lockwood graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1912. He was assigned command of the submarine USS A-2 (SS-3) in 1914. He command the ex-German submarine UC-97 from March 1919 to August 1919, and the submarine USS V-3 (SS-163) from May 1926 to December 1928. The ex UC-97 was used to evaluate the capabilities of German submarine equipment.
During World War II Lockwood served in the thick of action, as U.S. Naval Attache to Great Britain from February 1941 to March 1942 and Commander Submarines, Southwest Pacific, from April 1942 until February 1943. Following the death of Rear Admiral Robert H. English in February 1943, Lockwood shifted his flag to Pearl Harbor, replacing temporary COMSUBPAC Captain John H. Brown in February 1943. During his tour, Lockwood improvised tactics to make the most effective use of submarines and pushed the Navy's Bureaus of Ships and Ordnance to provide his men with the most effective submarines and torpedoes possible. He oversaw the tests that proved early U.S. torpedo unreliability and prompted the improvements that made them the highly effective weapons they became in 1944 and 1945. U.S. submarines sank more than 5.6 million tons of enemy shipping including more than 1,100 merchant ships and 200 warships. U.S. submarine attacks on enemy shipping accounted for more than fifty percent of enemy ships lost during the war.
Of the 16,000 U.S. submariners in the war, 375 officers and 3,131 enlisted men on fifty-two submarines were lost. The U.S. submarine force's wartime success was achieved with the lowest casualty rate of any combatant submarine service on either side. Lockwood's strong leadership and devotion to his troops won him the nickname "Uncle Charlie" and a promotion to Vice Admiral in late 1943. Lockwood died in June 1967.
