The Second Happy Time
 

Having taken charge of a nice new Type IXC (U-510, which IRL actually survived the war!), I headed to the US coast expecting lots of easy pickings. It's Feb 1942 and I'd read about very weak or non-existent defences, mostly single ships, no air cover etc.

So I arrived close to my assigned grid DB94 - boy is it shallow! On the way I've been forced down countless times by aircraft and single roving destroyers. Admittedly when these destroyers have detected me they've been rather poor at pressing a DC attack but they have forced me down. I've met two convoys (and sunk a few ships ;)) and seen two tramp steamers and two other single merchants, moving fast in bad seas and I couldn't intercept.

I've now crept into DB94 at PD and sat submerged for 24 hours at 18m depth. Two destroyers came close but din't pick me up. As soon as I could I went back out to sea to get decent depth under my keel.

So have I been unlucky or was my expectation not correct?

EDIT: Forgot to mention it's GWX of course, what else?

I guess you are lucky if you are detected in shallow waters and live to tell an encounter with dd's

Shallow water+DD's=usual death.

I quite agree but the detections were thankfully not in DB94, they were further out. Otherwise I'd be washing up on the coast of America by now.

Seems that early 1942 American DDs are very inexperienced or something.

I was caught in shallow water and managed to escape with MINIMAL damage off the coast of New york and was never deeper then 50 meters (GWX 1.03)

It makes sense though US sailors wernt ready for subs yet.