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Originally Posted by torpedobait
If I encounter them again I'll get you the details. Now that I'm almost up to 1944 I don't expect to see anymore, though.
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11/18/43, 0530 radar contact with small 3 ship group at 129-28E, 28-49N. Group consisted of 2 Large Old Passenger Carriers and 1 Modern Passenger Liner.
No escorts. All 3 are now on the bottom in the vicinity of 129-49E, 28-53N.
In a few hours another came along, one European Built Liner and 3 escorts. All 4 were sunk. Two of the destroyers were apparently manned by inexperienced crew, and they tended to hold course and speed to their downfall. The third came straight at my 180 with no zig zag. He ate a fish at about 600 yards and went down quickly.
11/19/43 , 0030 radar contact with 4 ship group at 129-17E, 28-37-30 N. Two Large Old Passenger Carriers and two Modern Passenger Liners,
no escorts. All four now clutter the bottom a little east of their original sighting. Total tonnage for the 8 ships and 3 escorts was slightly over 80k tons.
