[KaleunMarco]

i had something very unusual happen while on patrol between the Carolines and the Marianas. Approx long 1745170 lat 1044500. January 4th or 5th 1943. Driving a Gato out of Pearl.
tracking a Troop Convoy with radar. the convoy is heading south. i am approaching from the east. we are NOT in visual range of each other and not close enough for radar to identify the individual ships.
all of sudden, we start taking immediate and serious damage. bridge crew is dead. everyone forward of the stern torpedo room is injured. flooding in engine room conning tower and forward torpedo room. all forward tubes destroyed. ordered periscope depth and began evasion while we started damage control. while we were evading, the enemy passed by the location where we incurred our damage and every enemy ship was destroyed. one by one. most odd. i believe that the convoy was one liner and three escorts. i managed to put a torpedo (stern) into the liner as she passed by and she went down. but the three DD's were all destroyed without any input from my gallant crew.

i checked the Japanese mine fields file with the ME but there is no mine field within 1000 miles of the Carolines.

has anyone experienced this? it's like a black hole.