Nedlam,
I would mostly agree with the other guys' comments. I _have_ seen air attacks - but none that I ever called in, I don't htink. I was in teh mediterranean, in that base on Malta, port hunting (this was during my wild days as a uboat captain). Anyway, it was hairy, and patrol boats had closed in on me, passed through the walls of the port (breakwater, etc) ,and were DCing the $$%$ out of me. All of the sudden, the water around me, them and everywhere started exploding like DCs. I looked around, and it was swarms - swarms of german bombers. They sunk a tanker in port that I was about to torpedo, and they bombed the crap out of everything else - including coastal bunkers. Most of them were shot down by anti-air, so in addition to the bombing you had german planes and parts of german planes falling down on the port. It was beautiful. I haven't seen an airstrke since..but that might have done it for life.
About other subs - I've never seen any sign of one. BUT - in the bathtub this morning i was re-reading the Silent Hunter manual and found:
Page 27 - under send contact report :
"Sending contact reports will give precise enemy locations to the BdU....This can result in Luftwaffe or Kriegsmarine attacks!"
They may have been joshing us, because I've heard that AI subs can't submerge or fire torpedoes. But I'd love to live with fiction that this is possible.
KB
btw - U-173 is heading back from the Grand Banks right now with 4 passenger liners sunk, and a total of around 140k in tonnage (patrol 13, IXC, oct '42)
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