Iron Coffins - Post on your lost commanders
 

I am sure it has been done before, but see a lot play Dead is Dead. Thus it would be nice to place where people can post on there departed U-boat commanders, and keep track of how the allies sunk the boats so that we know how to improve.


Karl Myer overall stats are

9 patrols (81 days) 23 (19/4) 86945 (82007/4938) 0 enemy planes downed
65 crew lost

Karl Myer was on his second patrol with U-102 after stepping up from being a top IIA Commander. July-1940, after the fall of france, he dipped into the Irish Sea to meet up with a spotted convoy, getting ahead of the convoy, he quietly went deep and slowly drifted to it, the hydrophones listening as it approches with a storm overhead. He had six eels left, five of them in the tubes with one T2 as a reload, and the plan was to surface, empty the tubes, crash dive, listen for explosions, and then slip out and head back to Kiel. The Convoy was overhead, and U-102 rose to pierscope depth and raised the scope to start aiming, it took longer as the weather was horrid, and first releasing the T1 from Tube 5, then launching a spread of four torpedos, two each at two nice frieghters, from the four front tubes. lowering the scope and a loud Boom as the small fighter was hit by the T1, a moment later, even before Myer could call for a crash dive, there was a loud ping, close in, Alarm and crash dive was sounded, but the A&B DD that was dead behind (and thus out of hydrophone range) rammed U-102 from behind, All hands lost.

My memories of Myer will be sneaking into Scapa Flow and finding not a single ship in the harbor in his IIA (he sunk a V&W on the way out) and the elimination of a ten ship convoy on the east coast of Britian on the first patrol of U-102.