Yeah I think its cool to look up the history of the boat your in command of, I'm in the Happy Times campaign an have been given a new boat a VIIC. Its the U-69 *pauses for the giggles lol*, I used that website you gave to look up my new boat. The U-69 is actually kinda famous it sank the US ship the Robin Moor, the first U-boat to sink an American ship. It was the first U-boat to mine African harbors because the Cpt an the XO were former merchant sailors who sailed those waters. She also had a unique emblem the laughing cow from laughing cow cheese lol. She went on 10 war patrols sinking 17 ships an crippled two other, it sounds like the Cpt. Jost Metzler an his crew were pretty famous for their successes. Cpt. Metzler ended up getting pretty sick an was transfered to a post on land an her next two Cpts were not as good as Metzler. She was sunk by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Fame east of Newfoundland. The first Cpt. Metzler actually wrote a book on his time as Cpt of the U-69, called The Laughing Cow
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