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Originally Posted by Laufen zum Ziel
Four days with no mis-haps?
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Well, I've mostly been running patrols in type VII boats this week (July-September 1943). They don't get killed nearly as often as type IX boats in 1943. My type IXs are just doing shakedown cruises for the new crews that are replacing my losses in the 2nd and 10th Flotillas, or in drydock for extensive repairs and refit.
I had a type IX returning from a shakedown cruise attacked by aircraft just off Lorient. It was so close to base that the Vorpostenboot coming out to meet me engaged the aircraft with its forward gun.
Meanwhile, U-632 of the 1st Flotilla (Oblt.zS Volker Vogel) has just returned to Brest from a 26 day patrol in August 1943 during which he sank 9 ships totalling 50,756 tons, including a passenger liner and 5 other ships in a British convoy headed for Gibralter. The only damage he sustained was when rammed by a destroyer that had crept up on him in the fog. The lookouts spotted the destroyer just in time to crash dive, so that the damage was mostly superficial, in the area of the wintergarten.
U-212 of the 11th Flotilla in Bergen (Oblt.zS Quirin Quast) is about to engage a convoy in AL26, so perhaps there will be some blood in the water for you.