Brag
02-13-07, 12:28 AM
Dear Sir,
On 06 December 1940 while in command of U-108 (IXB) on its 2nd patrol I and the whole bloody lot of my crew got killed.
Hereby I apply for membership to your shabby but growing club of 2nd patrol losers.
The qualifying circumstances for this request are as follows:
Intercepted convoy shadowed by U-boats. Could not see any escorts except one Black swan on opposite side of convoy full of juicy targets. After leasurely studying the victims, I realized this was a Kaleun's wet dream. Stop engines, have a duck shoot.
Fired one torpedo at munitions ship in opposite side of convoy then 3 magnetics at closer ships. Munitions ship, bang! Gone, 3 magnetics failed to explode.
Down to 90 meters (that's all I had). Hehehehe, 15 minutes , no escorts bugging us.
I bit later, I would attack this convoy again, just before dawn.
32 minutes after I launched torpedoes, here comes the Black Swan, straight for the datum point from where I launched my torpedoes and where I am still there :doh: quiet as a mouse. Ping, ping, ping, Boom, boom, boom.
Do I need to say more?
Sir, I did write 500 times "I will not attack a convoy in shallow water.
I also wrote 500 times, "I will never again stick around my firing point." (AI's Datum).
Dear Sir, please accept me into your club.
I remain your faithful corpse,
On 06 December 1940 while in command of U-108 (IXB) on its 2nd patrol I and the whole bloody lot of my crew got killed.
Hereby I apply for membership to your shabby but growing club of 2nd patrol losers.
The qualifying circumstances for this request are as follows:
Intercepted convoy shadowed by U-boats. Could not see any escorts except one Black swan on opposite side of convoy full of juicy targets. After leasurely studying the victims, I realized this was a Kaleun's wet dream. Stop engines, have a duck shoot.
Fired one torpedo at munitions ship in opposite side of convoy then 3 magnetics at closer ships. Munitions ship, bang! Gone, 3 magnetics failed to explode.
Down to 90 meters (that's all I had). Hehehehe, 15 minutes , no escorts bugging us.
I bit later, I would attack this convoy again, just before dawn.
32 minutes after I launched torpedoes, here comes the Black Swan, straight for the datum point from where I launched my torpedoes and where I am still there :doh: quiet as a mouse. Ping, ping, ping, Boom, boom, boom.
Do I need to say more?
Sir, I did write 500 times "I will not attack a convoy in shallow water.
I also wrote 500 times, "I will never again stick around my firing point." (AI's Datum).
Dear Sir, please accept me into your club.
I remain your faithful corpse,