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And we're not doing anything new. Those WWII sailors were pretty sharp!
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Ah, you touched now a sensible point in me!
I am a great enthusiast of the classics (I mean roman and greeks!), and did you know? The romans had a saiy that goes like this: "Nihil novum sub solem" which means in latin "Nothing new under the sun", i.e. we are continuously reinventing the wheel
, but those before us knew that already!
Not a long time ago, I was developing a method of determining AOB based on "aspect ratio", and once I had finished, you know what happened? I discovered that by 1912 the periscope manufacturers Zeiss (German) and Barrs& Stround (Britain) had long ago developed such a method! And me, here, thinking I had found the keys to the holy grail
So, when I read books like those from O'Kane, Kretschmer and similar aces, I just can think: "Respect, man!" Those guys knew the same you just have found out, but decades, or even centuries before
