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Old 07-22-15, 03:21 PM   #7
Joefour
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Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey View Post
Well made it to May of 43 and i'm patrolling off the US coast in my IXD2. Attacked one convoy at the beginning of May and was lucky to survive it. I never had a chance to get a shot off as the escorts caught me on their radar before I was close enough to submerge and was held under for nearly 30 hours.

Decided to go back to picking off ships sailing in ones and twos again and have been bombarded with messages from other U-Boats that are sinking. My crew and I are beginning to wonder if we are the last boat alive in the Atlantic.
Head for the NE coast of Cuba. Easy pickins. Lotsa fat T2s and T3s and I have never seen a warship in the area. Park your butt at periscope depth halfway between the easternmost tip of Cuba and the island of Hispaniola and man the hydrophone. It's a bottleneck most of them have to go thru to get to (I'm assuming) to the oilfields in Venezuela. If you don't pick up an easy 100K tons there, I don't know what to tell you. Just watch out for aircraft. (That's the other reason why I stay submerged most of the time.)
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