So, to keep this moving along...
I think of the "fresh water" training like unto the rifle training I got in the US Army, where you shoot at stationary targets, and get a beginners basic understanding of your weapon and what it can do. Eventually, you are going to want to have more advanced training, that would have to include inclement weather, bad visibility, distractions and oh yea, moving targets!
Since this is moving forward fairly fast, I'll go ahead and put forth one possibility for a 1938 German torpedo bomber training facility that is (Just barely) within Germany's boarders. I did a few minutes of google searching for lakes in Germany with the greatest depth, under the impression that a lake 100' or more deep would be needed, and it had to be a couple miles long, and came up with THIS. Would such a location fit the physical needs of such a training facility? Given it's close proximity to the French and Swiss boarders, I know it cannot fulfill the security requirements, but before I go looking for a natural site (Or posit the construction of an artificial or augmented one), I want to know if all the "basic" torpedo bomber skills could be learned on this lake. Note the time of the damn's completion, and the raising of the original lakes depth by 30 meters (99 feet), so underwater obstructions should be limited out in the middle. So my questions:
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Could such an augmented lake serve for torpedo bombing in the purely physical characteristics? If no, why not/what does it lack?
Apparently the Luftwaffe did use Niedersonthofen lake, near Kempten, Allgau, Bavaria. as a testing facility.
(For the abortive Bomb-Torpedo project)