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Originally Posted by Lzs von swe
Make sure to drill your Flak crew extra hard before entering the Med 
I have lost all my boats in there to planes  |
Thanks for the advice, I'll watch out.
Sorry to hear about your loss.
To be honest, when it comes to the planes, I relly more on my watchmen then on my flaks.
March 29 1942
20:11 The repairs took a lot more time than expected, but we're finaly ready to go. In the meantime, my highly experienced WO, Oberleutnant Kurt Gottscheu, had to leave and was replaced by oberfahnrich Josef Brandt, a man without any combat experience.
20:23 The weather is fine, the sea is calm. We are finaly sailing out of the El Farrel harbor, which has been our home for the past month.
March 30
04:18 BF78. Ship spotted. It's a liner, lit up, and I'll asume it's Spanish. Continuing on our course.
18:24 CG24. We're entering the area under Allied air cover. Hopefully they won't bother us until morning.
March 31
04:25 Aircraft spoted! I didn't even saw it, but I could hear it. We crash dived and we were not attacked.
05:42 Back to surface. Probably not for long. The sun just came up.
05:45 Another aircraft! They were far away and didn't spot us. Staying on surface, increasing the speed to 14kt.
11:11 Aircraft spotted, heading in our direction. We crash dived. At 50m we sustained a hit. Probably only minor damage. I decided to stay submerged until sundown, going ahead slow to preserve the batteries.
18:23 We surfaced. The weather s unchanged, visibilty 10km, north wind 4m/s. Current position CG55. We have at least three days to Gibraltar.
18:48 Another aircraft. We crash dived, but still received a minor damage.
19:31 Surfaced.
20:41 Received a convoy report. It's to far north, going away, and we'll not going after it.
April 1
05:50 The wind got stronger - 15 m/s S. Visibility is still 10km. It's dawning and I can expect air attacks soon. I guess this area became a lot more dangerous since my last visit, at the end of 1941.
Current position CG58.
20:45 Haven't seen a single aircraft the whole day. Maybe RAF had a day off
. Haven't seen anything actually. We dived for a regular sound check. Nothing. At the moment our greatest enemy is boredom.
April 2
07:42 Aircraft spotted. Crash dived. Light damage from bombs.
14:24 Contact! Faint sound, bearing 332. Surfacing to intercept. Position CG9574.
14:57 It's a Spanish liner... Returning to previous course. Diving.
21:35 Surfacing. I'm about 50 km from the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. I'm going to stay in the area untill tomorrow night. There should be a lot of merchants there. Then I'll try to break through the Strait, full speed on surface. I should be through in few hours.
April 3
03:00 Contact bearing 352. It sounds like destroyer, patroling the entrance. We''ll stay submerged.
03:25 I calculated that the destroyer will pass only a few km from us, and I was getting ready to sink it. Then it changed course and I let it go. I don't usualy waste eels on destroyers, but kind of regret this one. It would have been one less patrol to worry about.
04:29 Contact bearing 200! It's a merchant. Surfacing to intercept.
05:00 I can't belive it! Another neutral ship. That's 5 days without seeing a valid target.
06:27 Aircraft spotted, crash dive.
(to be continued...)