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Bubblehead1980 · 01-12-10, 05:39 PM

I one took out a Wakatake DD in TMO with deck gun, it was kind of luck.Basically, it and a small subchaser caught me in shallows of java sea and landed some hits with depth charges, was taking on water, engines gone, so decided to fight it out, surfaced fast, manned deck gun, fired right at the torpedos, they put out a huge explosion and also continued shelling at the waterline, DD landed at hit that damaged sub ever more but I was screwed anyway, well the wakatake quit firing and went dead in water, began to slowly sink.

Then the subchaser was coming from behind to ram my sub, I manned the 20 MM aft AA gun and waited until the SC was close, then began firing at the forward gun crew and deckhands, as well as at the pilot house, the SC turned away and skimmed along my starboard side at prob 20 yards or less and I continued raking the deck gun 20 MM fire, saw several crew fall down, the SC went on in a straight line and returned some minor fire but just rode off into the sunset.The DD eventually sank but I had no way to get home, but I won in a way.

This was rare exception to rule, esp in TMO, normally I wouldve been shelled to pieces by the DD, lucky hits caught it off guard.I had some screen shots i posted on here but cant find them, prob can find the old post somewhere.

01-12-10, 05:39 PM	#8
Bubblehead1980 Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Florida USA Posts: 7,125 Downloads: 605 Uploads: 44	I one took out a Wakatake DD in TMO with deck gun, it was kind of luck.Basically, it and a small subchaser caught me in shallows of java sea and landed some hits with depth charges, was taking on water, engines gone, so decided to fight it out, surfaced fast, manned deck gun, fired right at the torpedos, they put out a huge explosion and also continued shelling at the waterline, DD landed at hit that damaged sub ever more but I was screwed anyway, well the wakatake quit firing and went dead in water, began to slowly sink. Then the subchaser was coming from behind to ram my sub, I manned the 20 MM aft AA gun and waited until the SC was close, then began firing at the forward gun crew and deckhands, as well as at the pilot house, the SC turned away and skimmed along my starboard side at prob 20 yards or less and I continued raking the deck gun 20 MM fire, saw several crew fall down, the SC went on in a straight line and returned some minor fire but just rode off into the sunset.The DD eventually sank but I had no way to get home, but I won in a way. This was rare exception to rule, esp in TMO, normally I wouldve been shelled to pieces by the DD, lucky hits caught it off guard.I had some screen shots i posted on here but cant find them, prob can find the old post somewhere.