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Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)
If I recall, he mentioned Formosa so first or second patrol. In order to evade escorts after an attack they tricked the escorts by going into the shallows. The escorts thought they would go to deep water after the attack to escape and so went to the deeper water looking for them, but didn't find them.
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Yep , Parche's first patrol was Formosa, second was also off Formosa with a wolfpack and was when "the rampage" took place in July 1944.
Interesting tactic. Ramage was a uh character.