U-262 was attacked by a flight of B-24's about eight hours after the surrender was received. We fortunately crashed to safety without damage, but it was a surprise. I had actually refrained from the normal crash dive thinking we wouldn't be attacked. After that incident however, planes would fly by without attacking. I always came to flank and prepared to crash dive anyway.
Being aware that not everyone may have gotten the word, I never let an allied ship approach us, always diving away. We returned to our original home port of Wilhemshaven also, not chancing the long shallow channel into our last assigned port at Brest.
It takes along time to get all the way through the war, why leave it to chance at the end?
Good Hunting!
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We\'re paratroopers,.......we\'re supposed to be surrounded.
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