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Old 04-02-10, 03:24 PM   #5
SabreHawk
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Ya, but it's obvious they were responding to a call for help because they were heading northeast well away from this area earlier before I began the attack. And were then on thier way to the area where I was attacking during it. The sound contacts during the attack confirmed this as I could tell they had changed course from where they were originally heading.
I then after the final ship was destroyed submerge and changed course to the southwest, then to the west as they arrived at the scene. But of course by this time there wasn't anyting to find and I was well out of their sonar range and heading away at half speed and at 70m.
After a time I did go to periscope depth and even gave though to turning around and seeing if I could take one of them. But they were out of visual range by then, and well............ why take a risk like that and possibly ruin a perfectly successful convoy attack by getting myself sunk.
An unnessicary risk IMO, as the objective has been achieved and the war supplies are on the bottom and the warships who came to thier aide have no idea where I am or going, and they never knew.

So we are heading north now, and will take a route similar to how we got here, and will in all likelyhood run into more supply ships and use up the remaining ammo and then it's homeward for us and then back out if the tonnage is needed.

I belive in General Patton's statement. " No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country, he won it by making to other poor bastard die for his."
It's also been my belief that had Hitler taken this same mindset things might have came out differently. But they didn't and fortunately for us lost.
In the end he simply bit off more than he and his forces could chew, and through his acting stupidly and selflishly lost big time.
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