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Originally Posted by KaleunMarco
not on submarine operations, sir.
Dugout Doug never had any control over submarine operations. Ever. NFW.
Marshall conned Ernie King to designate a couple of rowboats and a canoe as the Seventh Fleet for MacArthur to call his own. It stayed that way until the Philippines Campaign in 1944 when the USN had to designate some actual warships to support Dugout and his return.
There is a USN legend that says that when Dugout was ordered out of Corregidor, the USN offered to take him and his family to Australia via submarine. Straight shot all the way to Melbourne.
Dugout wanted nothing to do with a sub, so we had to cook up the PT-boat thing to Mindanao and thence to an Army air base in order to fly him to Darwin and thence to train(s) to Melbourne.
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I was just thinking the other day while modding TMO with early war missions to Corregidor such as Trout, Seawolf etc. Why did Dougie not hitch a ride via submarine? Would have been a safer way to evacuate than PT boat and aircraft.
Legend makes sense though, sounds like a total Dougie move.