One of the most memorable moments I´ve had was in the Black Sea.
We were sent to the Sea of Azow when the Red Army was massing their forces on the Eastern shores of Kerch. We went through at night and did a sonar check when we were leaving Kerch behind us. 3 contacts, 2 merchants and 1 war ship, only 2000m away and closing. At PD we were scraping the bottom... but scope up, attack. All 3 tubes set for magnetic and fire.
The merchants exploded, but not the armed trawler that turned at us at high speed. If nothing else she would crush us against the bottom. Surface, maximum speed and turn back south, hoping that the German ship patrolling Kerch would come to our help. She opened fire with here bow gun and machine guns on the bridge. We manned our Flak guns, PK38 zwillings, fore and aft and I toke the aft mounted (type IId turm 2).
At less then 1000m and closing fast with tracers flying past and gun shells whistling past I opened fire. Aiming at her bridge I knocked out her search light and then the port machine gun, then the starboard. Her bridge was in flames and ammo exploded.
The bow gun was now visible against the flames and at almost point blank range I pounded it with my PK38, thinking this is the end.
Then, a huge explosion that rocked our U-25 and the Russian was gone.
Our boat was damaged but we turned North and completed our patrol before returning to Constanza.
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