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Originally Posted by maillemaker

I think it was late 1940.

Hit a convoy just southwest of England. Perfect setup, but I got detected by the port-side Black Swan. I engaged her with the deck gun at about 4500 yards. They never hit me, but I hit her at least 2 times. She turned and fled, burning wildly, while another Black Swan came down from the front of the convoy. I took that one out with a magnetic torpedo right down her throat.

I pressed on to attack the convoy, and am certain I sunk at least 2 Empire freighters, but missed a magnetic shot on a third Black Swan and they nailed us good. I had a full-green damage control department and put them to work fixing the two flooding compartments, and dove, since both periscopes were out.

I should not have dove. The DC team never got ahead of the flooding, and we sank.

had they - your boys - been with you from the begining?