[Folducker]

Driving out to my assigned patrol area, 21:00 on the surface minding my own damn bidnesss, when what should appear, but an 11 ship convoy. 3 Destroyers 8 merchants. I submerge at about 5 miles, make my standard approach, shoot 6 fish from the forward tubes at 3 ships. Sink two outright, miss with one fish on a large transport who is burning and making about 2 knots. Go to 300 feet silent running, stop and wait out the escorts. As the escorts tend to do, they mill around a while and then move off. I get one tube reloaded, go to periscope depth and pick off the damaged freighter. Here comes da escorts, turn away from them, wait until they are within 1000 yards, shoot two cuties, go to 300 feet all stop. Usually, if they work at all, the cuties follow each other and both hit the same target. I get one detonation, scratch one escort. A couple of minutes, the other one finds the other escort. Two dead destroyers. I turn toward the remaining ships, manage to get the remaining tubes reloaded. Pick off two more transports but here comes that remaining destroyer. Put the stern to him, wait until he is 1000 yards coming at me at 34 knots, shoot my remaining cutie. Get him, but he doesn’t go down, instead, burning, he turns away. I wait for a while, Finally go to 38 feet to see where everyone else is, I see there are two tankers with the remaining damaged escort fairly close. I end around them, get in front. The destroyer is easy to identify, he is the only ship on fire. Close to within 700 yards, pick him off with one fish. The remaining two tankers are going all over the place, but since they are only going about 6 knots, it’s fairly easy to nail them. This is the first time I have managed to wipe out a whole convoy.