Helping Bismark on !!!
I am posting this cause untill now never received a messg. from BDU like this before...
Everything started on mi 14 patrol on AL35, comind across scapa flow, received a messg.From BDU to encorage all units on going to grid AD52 for helping Bismark batlleship, cause I was not even close to be of any help i just followed my orders and ahead whent to grid AL35 for mi patrol, completed the patrol with the score ton. of one V&B Destroyer and a large cargo ship suncked,
and then as before whent down to the grid BE as over there usualy i come across some very tasty large convoys with significante escortes...
On arrivall to grid BE 53 i informed BDU of mi patrol results until the moment and my positioning and around 6:30 AM when i was hunting for ships and enemy convoys on that patrol came another BDU messag. informing that all units on the vecinity of grid BE53 to help Bismark Batleship on a possible enconter at 8:00 AM with Brithish capital ships at NE of that grid...
Lucky for my that i was patroling that grid and whent down there NE of the grid to help the BB, ...around 8:15 AM and going surfaced to speed up litle more my watch tower officer spoted enemy warship long range, and after usoing the USO and Binoculars to confirme ther distance and rote, i started what it was to be mi atack plane for sinkig down at least on of the batleships, so it was King Gorge Batleship, and Revenge Batleship with an escorte of to light cruisers and a Clemson destroyerat least that i have spoted...
Got the closest i could to there right flank and around 2900 meters of distance whent on periscope deph and took position to launch a quit and surprising atack on first the to Batleships....
Took my time and launched 3 torpedos at Revenge at 2500 meters distance , and then after ajusting my positioning again aimed to King G. and the done the same thing, launched 3 torpedos...and whaited for the impacts on both ships....
It was a brilliant atack Revenge whent to the bothom fast and King G. had to fire another topedo to finish him , and whent down also...
by the time destroyers where looking for my but to far from me for beeing a problem and , one hour later i was sighting Bismark Batleship safe and on his course...
this was very fast and i concider myself lucky to sunck dose two Beast and beeing in such a good spote and place...
But the strange thing is that after that there was no exelent job from BDU, or at least a message reporting that my sub had done it...
Thanks for sharing your stuff guys, and sorry about my poor English spelling...
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