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Originally Posted by WH4K
Saw a very weird thing IVO Eniwetok, around December 1944 or so.
Stumbled across a lone Kongo BB & destroyer escort, both stationary.
Pumped enough torpedoes into the Kongo to make it sink. Only, when it did, I got no "She's going down!" message & received no sinking credit.
Same thing with the destroyer.
Weird.
Both ships acted normally otherwise. That is, the BB started moving when it started getting hit, and the destroyer tried to find and kill me.
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I had a similar experience early November '43 out of Pearl, headed to patrol zone.
While passing Eniwetok, (I check sonar every so often for distant noise) I picked up a contact, went to investigate. I found 2 (TWO) task forces parked there, 1 inside the Atoll, one west, both lined up pretty all stop. There were a few DD's roaming around slowly.
I was able to sneak in and take out 2 escort carriers in the westerly TF. Escaped OK, continued patrol. I got credit for both. On returning to base later, one of the task forces was still there and me with no torpedoes left.
OOPs forgot: FORTSU 1.1 with patch