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comet61 · 11-08-09, 05:44 PM

Interesting. Last night my U-371 was 100km west of Iceland when I met up with a large convoy with 2 DD as escorts. After I fired a wide spread of 4 torps at the main body and hit a tanker 2 or 3 merchants lit up with searchlights. Then...a starshell popped up between me and the tanker I just hit. I thought it came from the destroyer. However, the closest destroyer was 5km away and the farthest 6km. The starshells were low over the water in my general direction and 2 were fired. Good thing was, I could now see my prey even better. I turned 180° and was able to manually target another smaller vessal with my aft torpedo...it sank too. The starshells stopped when the tanker was just about going under and the destroyer 4km away heading right for me. I high-tailed it out of there in shallow (80m) waters at flank speed. That was the first time I saw starshells from a merchant.

11-08-09, 05:44 PM	#6
comet61 Sparky Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 151 Downloads: 240 Uploads: 0	starshell Interesting. Last night my U-371 was 100km west of Iceland when I met up with a large convoy with 2 DD as escorts. After I fired a wide spread of 4 torps at the main body and hit a tanker 2 or 3 merchants lit up with searchlights. Then...a starshell popped up between me and the tanker I just hit. I thought it came from the destroyer. However, the closest destroyer was 5km away and the farthest 6km. The starshells were low over the water in my general direction and 2 were fired. Good thing was, I could now see my prey even better. I turned 180° and was able to manually target another smaller vessal with my aft torpedo...it sank too. The starshells stopped when the tanker was just about going under and the destroyer 4km away heading right for me. I high-tailed it out of there in shallow (80m) waters at flank speed. That was the first time I saw starshells from a merchant.