The oldest class of US subs to serve in a major combat role in the Pacific were the Tambor boats.  This class preceded the Gato class, and the Gato, Balao and Tench classes were all essentially progressive improvements on the Tambor boats.

The Tambors went into combat immediately following the attack at Pearl Harbor, and formed the first Pacific wold packs with the newer Gato boats which had just come into service.

With the release of my new Tambor model, the four classes of US submarines serving in the Pacific theatre will be complete.

I hope to have her posted in a couple of days. 

Actually there was still an older class serving in the Pacific:



The S-Class boats served in the early days in the Phillipines from Manila, later in the Dutch East Indies, and then in the Solomons and the Aleutians.

Not very successful though  .

All those submarine classes look great, TR. Keep up the nice work !

JapLance wrote on Oct 17^th, 2010 at 3:29am:


Very true.   To put that in perspective, the 17 S boats that served in WWII are credited with a total of 42 sinkings (including sampans and junks) equaling about 130,000 tons.  In comparison, the SS-193, USS Tautog, a member of the Tambor class, alone is credited with 26 sinkings totaling 72,000 tons.  And the single ship record, if I remember correctly, is held by the USS Spearfish, SS-190, at 23 sinkings totaling 133,000 tons. 

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small stuff.....

I got over 6,000,000 tons in a campaign of Silent Hunter 1



regards  Collin