Submarine

From Turtledove

Submarines are ships capable of travelling while submerged underwater.

[edit] Submarines in Days of Infamy

Submarines became the United States most effective weapon against the Japanese after the fall of Hawaii. The Japanese had no means of detecting American subs. Thus, the Americans could sink Japanese cargo ships or shell the islands with relative impunity.

The Submarine also proved to be an extreme danger to Japanese aircraft carriers, as submarines badly damaged the Soryu and the Zuikaku. By 1943, U.S. submarines had played a critical role in cutting the supply lines between Japan and Hawaii, thus substantially aiding the U.S. invasion that year.

[edit] Submarines in Southern Victory

Submarines or submersibles were used by the C.S. Navy and other navies during the Great War to raid enemy shipping and disrupt supplies faring considerably better than the Confederate surface fleet against the larger and more powerful U.S. Navy.

During the Second Great War all the major powers again used submarines along with naval aviation to threaten capital ships.

[edit] Submarines in Worldwar

Submarines were crucial to Earth's war effort against the Race's Conquest Fleet because the Race, hailing from a desert planet, had no concept of them. The Race lacked the means to destroy them underwater, which meant that submarines could be used to transport crucial supplies and personnel between the resisting human powers with minimal danger. Submarines were used to transport plutonium seized from the Race to the United States and foreign ministers to London for the Big Five conferences. American and German submarines carrying atomic bombs destroyed the cities of Miami, Rome, and Alexandria by sailing into the ports undetected and detonating the bomb aboard the ship.

After the war, the major powers developed nuclear submarines capable of carrying ballistic missles. The United States launched missiles from a submarine at the Colonization Fleet in space. The Soviets launched missiles with ginger warheads at Australia causing an orgy in which Atvar was involved. The Germans used their submarine fleet to great effect in the Race-German War of 1965 devastating North Africa, Arabia, and Australia. The subs were still fully active at the end of the war and capable of launching attacks, even though much of Germany proper was devastated. Thus, the Race was compelled to accept terms less than unconditional surrender.