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Originally Posted by Brag
Complacency and over confidence are the biggest killers.
Even in real life, there was a case where no one was at the hidrophone station after sinking a lone freighter. The officers were drinking champagne as a destryer answering the freighterŽ's distress call approached the U boat.
The end result, the U'boat had to blow ballast. Those of the crew who did not die were taken prisoner.  |
I remember that but can't find the link to the bugga
How about the aptly named
Karl-Adolf Schlitt, on his first real patrol in enemy waters, suffered one of the more unusual losses of a U-boat when series of events resulting from improper use of the boats
high-tech underwater toilet forced the boat to surface right under enemy aircraft
http://www.uboat.net/men/commanders/1090.html