These fragment is terrible
Logbook
HMS HMS Hambledon
23rd Oct. 1943 0630 zulu.
153 NM from goal.
Day of watch
My watch started at 0500 zulu
We are on route to Southampton, we are protecting convoy xx, we have been their protection since Halifax.
This famous English fog have hit us.
It's really really tense, I can't see my own hands in front of me.
I'm holdning my binoculars in my right hand..It will be of no use in this fog, only thing I see is nothing but a white wall.
Only thing which is in good use here is my ears.
While standing here outside the bridge and feel this cold wind hitting my face
!?? What was that, did I hear a different engine sound ?
I have somehow learned how our engines sounds like and the Merchant on our left sounds like. But this was different and came from 2 o'clock.
I toke up my binoculars to my eyes..when I toke it away again...unable to see anything in this dense fog.
Suddenly I hear machine guns fire from this direction-2 o'clock I open the ships phone and yell ALARM and at the same time I take cover behind one our metal things(don't know what they are called)
Something warm and sharp hit me on my right chin.
The pain was intense for a second then it was gone.
Have I been hit by a bullet or a fragment ? I moved my right hand slowly up to my right side of my face, to feel if there is anything like blood, there is nothing.
Must have been a piece a garbage which have may have hit me.
Again I felt this pain.....and again nothing...
The ship shake for a while...It wasn't the enemy who had hit us, it was our main gun who had fired in this direction.
Funny having a shootout with the enemy in such a dense fog, you can't see them, only hear them and vice versa
Someone is screaming of pain, one of the crew must have been hit by enemy fire.
Again this warm and sharp feeling hit me on my right chin and this crew member must be in lot of pain because again I hear him, loudly this time.
Wait a minute this doesn't sound like a person in pain, in fact it sound like my cat.
It was my brain who slowly started to wake up and then I felt this sharp pain on my right chin again.
I was now enough awake to understand that this warm and sharp things that hit me now and then was one of my cats claws.
I have altered the original dream so I could post a short story in this thread
Markus
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