Today we look at the opening months of the submarine campaign in the Pacific to see what the Dutch were getting up to whilst everyone else was absent or wishing for working torpedoes...

Sources:
https://www.history.navy.mil/research...
http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/start....
The Great Circle Vol. 43, No. 2, Special Issue: Submarines (2021), pp. 6274
http://ahoy.tkjk.net/macslog/DutchSu...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/SubmarinesI...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ConwaysWorl...
https://archive.navalsubleague.org/19...
https://www.rnsubmusfriends.org.uk/he...
http://warfare.gq/dutcheastindies/

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