U-78 had just left St Nazaire at night for her third patrol in September 1943 with a PZ near Greenland so I took the short route (not usual) through DD land where my 3 and 4 rated monsters lurk.
In a driving rain I ran into one who blasted my surprised ars to 48%. I have learned that making any turn from a charging DD at zero means he rips me a new one so better to brush him and pray. I went to periscope and hoped to cath him with a spread but he came out of the mist with his turbo lit and I could not set up for the shot and caught some close by depth charges. Now I am at 31% and sweating. I pull some fighter plane tactics turning in to him rather than away and after a nice decoy caught his fancey managed to limp far enough away that he lost my sent. But, Uber DDs don't just leave and that dog sniffed around to keep me down and quiet for another 2 hours before I could finally surface. It is of the rarest thing for me to terminate a patrol but I limped my defeated but still alive buttt back to port so I could fight another day.
He might have thought he sank me but Not today, not this time!!!!
These close calls are the coolest missions and they really are much better (IMO) at 100%
Wulfmann
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Thomas Jefferson,; Constitutional debates
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