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Originally Posted by Gargamel
But didn't Otto end up a POW cause his repair officer didn't fix the boat quick enough?
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Depends, you could say he ended up a POW because the officer on the bridge gave the alarm and sent the boat into a dive when he spotted a nearby destroyer, despite Kretschmer's standing order not to do so. Evasion on the surface was his SOP, and by all accounts he was very good at it. He might not have succeeded to escape on the surface either that time around, but we'll never know.
Edit: anyway, he racked up more tonnage in 18 months than anyone else did in the whole of the war, and lived to tell the tale. Given the odds against the latter, that's good enough luck for me.
