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Old 11-21-20, 11:45 AM   #12
John Pancoast
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Originally Posted by Drakken View Post
I'm adding to the list:

- Not sending daily status reports to BdU?
- Not shadowing a convoy when instructed to do so, reporting their position every two hours?
- Not staying in or around assigned grid for the remainder of the patrol, unless instructed otherwise?
- Not staying submerged during daylight when in transit on enemy seas, including around early war Britain?
- Not using proper diving and surfacing procedures?
- Engaging aircraft with Flak at any time, rather than crash dive?
- Avoiding convoys after 1943, because you know in hindsight that they are death traps?
I don't know if daily status reports were actually sop or not but via orders, after June 1941 they definitely were not.
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