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Of the 52 submarines lost by the U.S. Navy in World War II, at least one - the USS ''Corvina'' (SS-226) - was confirmed torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine while running on the surface, while the Japanese lost five submarines to American submarine attacks. Three of the Japanese losses, all of them small RO-class boats, were credited to the USS ''Batfish'' during a single three-day period in February 1945. Two U-boat kills were also credited to American submarines, one being during WWI. Neither was confirmed.
However, whilst the crew of the HMS ''Venturer'' only [[Awesome By Analysis|had paper, pencils and decent maths skills]] to plot a firing solution, modern subs have computers and advanced homing torpedoes - had the [[Cold War]] turned hot after the 1960s (not before then), there certainly would have been underwater submarine
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* Averted in ''[[Das Boot]]'' and ''The Enemy Below''. Both of these are German U-boats versus Allied surface ships. In ''Das Boot'', the only encounter the U-Boat has with another submarine is almost colliding with one when they are both on the surface.
** And one of their own subs at that.
*** Most WWII sub movies are sub vs surface.
*** Though a Japanese sub is sunk in Run Silent, Run Deep. They had to lure it to the surface, and then fire the torpedo under a ship to hit the enemy sub.
* There's a sub v. sub fight in, of all places, [[Zombie Apocalypse]] novel ''[[World War Z]]''. And no, neither sub was piloted by Zombies. If they were, this entry would be on the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] page.
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